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March 30, 2001 + In ATLANTIC UNBOUND, The Atlantic's online journal ... Crosscurrents MAUS CULTURE by Peter Swanson Mar 29 | "It seems there's a movement afoot to class-up comic books -- both adult comics, by moving them out of the ghetto of specialty stores and sci-fi racks, and kids comics, by giving them a significant place in our pop-culture canon. I do not doubt for a moment the artistic merits of many of the books and writers in the comics field, adult or otherwise. What I wonder about is this sudden bid for legitimacy. If some of these upstarts find themselves lodged between the Styrons and the Tans on the big people shelves, will they still talk to the superhero comics?" From DC and Marvel to the latest wave of serious graphic novels, the comic book has come of age. Peter Swanson surveys the scene, and waxes just a bit nostalgic. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/crosscurrents/cc2001-03-29.htm Interviews A. L. KENNEDY: SPASMS OF GRACE by Julia Livshin Mar 29 | "There's no bloodlust. And even with a very good matador and a very good bull, the nature of the thing is that it isn't seamless and it can't be entirely graceful. There will be spasms of grace. It's a very odd, ramshackle thing. There are all kinds of strange pauses and clumsy bits, and patches of costume drama, and then patches of this very odd, sometimes beautiful communication." A conversation with the Scottish novelist A. L. Kennedy, whose new book, *On Bullfighting*, describes the "death, transcendence, immortality, joy, pain, isolation and fear" that is the Spanish corrida. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-03-29.htm Unbound Fiction POINTS OF INTEREST by Robert Cohen Mar 21 | "And then, I don't know, there was something about the way they looked that made me think: remember this. The light, the bees humming in the grass, the lazy inconsequential flow of the afternoon, and your daughter, your irritable knock-kneed eight-and-a-half year old daughter, who will never be just this way again, just this tanned and skinny and unselfconscious, this careless, careless.... I didn't think about it after that. It was all reflex." http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fiction/2001-03cohen.htm Interviews KAREN ARMSTRONG: DIVINE RETICENCE by Harvey Blume Mar 21 | "When I first began the study of religion, I found it difficult to get a handle on Buddhism. It didn't have any of the things I considered essential to religion, like a supernatural God, a sense of sin, authority figures, doctrines. But the more I got into religious studies, the more I began to think that this approach, this reticence about the divine, had a good deal to recommend it." Harvey Blume talks with the author of *Buddha*, the biography of a world-historical figure about whom nothing is truly known. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-03-21.htm Sage, Ink Mar 30 | JUST A BILL http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/sage/ss2001-03-30.htm Mar 23 | BAAANISHED http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/sage/ss2001-03-23.htm Cartoons by Sage Stossel. ------------------------------------------------------- + In D.C. DISPATCH | from National Journal Legal Affairs REAL CAMPAIGN REFORM -- FLOORS, NOT CEILINGS by Stuart Taylor Jr. Mar 29 | The best approach would be to provide free airtime, mailing privileges, and other subsidies to eligible candidates. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2001-03-29.htm Media WARMED-OVER TRUTH by William Powers Mar 29 | Almost nobody is undecided about global warming (or, if you prefer, alleged global warming). http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/rauch2001-03-29.htm Political Pulse HOW McCAIN-FEINGOLD WOULD CONSTRICT SPEECH by William Schneider Mar 29 | Each new step down this road of restricting political spending and speech creates new problems and new inequities. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/schneider2001-03-29.htm ------------------------------------------------------- + In POST & RIPOSTE | Forum Highlights "The Next Ruling Class?" Has David Brooks drawn an accurate portrait of the meritocracy's next generation? Join us for a special forum on the April cover story. http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.ee6f6b3 "Race and Genetic Research" What are the risks of exploring human genetic diversity? What are the potential rewards? Join a conversation on Steve Olson's article in the April Atlantic. http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.ee6f6af Marvell's "Coy Mistress" Readers take up Linda Gregerson's provocative Atlantic Unbound essay on Andrew Marvell's classic seduction poem. http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.ee6f550 ... and much more. http://www.theatlantic.com/pr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY EDUCATION PROGRAM Teachers, put The Atlantic's quality to work in your classroom withour new Education Program. Affordable rates, FREE Teacher's Guide, and FREE instructor's copy with each qualifying order. 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