Utne Reader 1997 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Adventures in the skin trade.(prostitution in Cuba) | General interest | Coco Fusco |
A life of story.(journalist Jon Spayde)(Editorial) | General interest | Hugh Delehanty |
All over the map.(other enlightened towns) | General interest | Jay Walljasper, Daniel Kraker |
A magna carta for multinationals: a new international agreement threatens to make capital sovereign over the world's citizens. | General interest | David Morris |
America's 10 most enlightened towns.(Cover Story) | General interest | Stan Fellows |
America the hun.(unethical U.S. foreign policy) | General interest | Harold Pinter |
A nation of spin doctors: why is everybody ducking responsibility? | General interest | Karen Karbo |
Are black people cooler than white people? Dumb question.(Cover Story) | General interest | Donnell Alexander |
Are you dysfunctional enough to be a bestselling author?(satire) | General interest | Barbara Wood Graham |
Artist-run rock. (folk-rock musician Ani DiFranco) | General interest | Michael Marciano |
Barbara Ehrenreich.(Mixed Media) | General interest | |
Beyond the bale: how seven friends turned a house of straw into a community of solid gold. | General interest | Linda Buturian |
Bottom-line blues: is ethical business only a dream? | General interest | Mary Scott |
Choreographer of chaos.(Amanda Miller) | General interest | Jelena Petrovic |
City Indian: hunting for my heritage (and cafe au lait) in the urban wilderness. | General interest | Drew Hayden Taylor |
Clothing your conscience: a shopper's guide to guilt-free fabrics. | General interest | Linda Buturian |
Couch potato Buddha.(Tales of the New Pilgrim)(Excerpt) | General interest | Gretel Erlich |
Crip sheet: why the able-bodied still don't get it. | General interest | Andre Dubus |
Crisis of confidence. (psychotherapy)(Cover Story) | General interest | Annie Gottlieb |
Culture healers: ten innovative therapists who do more than just talk. | General interest | Laura Markowitz |
Degrees of money: are college consultants giving rich kids an edge? | General interest | Evan Forster |
Enlightened? Who, Us?(View from Loring Park) | General interest | Hugh Delehanty |
Every breath she takes. (environmental illness caused by EPA office)(includes related article) | General interest | Terese Svoboda |
Everyday shrines. | General interest | Francine Maroukian |
Get me rewrite! how the new market-driven journalism is turning our stories into industrial waste. | General interest | Jeremy Iggers |
Going with the faux.(Humor) | General interest | Sandra Tsing Loh |
Green spoilers: playing hardball politics, eco-style. | General interest | David Futrelle |
Grubby: how to become one with the earth. | General interest | SueEllen Campbell |
Heaven on ice.(Gleanings) | General interest | Eliot Weinberger |
Hip hot spots. (Canadian and US destinations) | General interest | Jay Walljasper, Daniel Kraker |
Holy hustling: sex-for-hire as a spiritual path.(Gleanings) | General interest | Gerald Hannon |
How I escaped my addiction to hip. | General interest | Eve Ensler |
How not to repair America: forget about fixing the system. Here's the way to real change.(Excerpt) | General interest | Sam Smith |
How to be a romantic poet: a wannabe's guide to the literary life.(humor; reprinted from Feb/Mar 1997 issue of Civilization) | General interest | Adam Goodheart |
How to tell time like a cow ... and lose weight too.(Excerpt) | General interest | Robert Levine |
In praise of asphalt nation: why cars are a blessing, not a curse. | General interest | James Q. Wilson |
In search of a cybertax: governments are desperately trying to cash in on Internet commerce. | General interest | Peter Katel |
In the shadow of the giants: endangered booksellers are struggling to master the art of survival. | General interest | Suzanne Mantell |
Ithaca, Shmithaca: a second opinion from a candid local.(Cover Story) | General interest | Brad Edmondson |
It took a village. (excerpt from Exile's Return) | General interest | Malcolm Cowley |
Journey to the end of the world.(pilgrimage narrative)(Excerpt) | General interest | Lee Hoinacki |
Jung and his shadow: a new biography portrays the Swiss psychologist as the quintessential trickster. (Carl Jung) | General interest | Robert F. Mannis |
Keith Jarrett.(jazz musician)(Interview) | General interest | Keith Goetzman |
Keys to the future: resources for the new therapy.(Directory) | General interest | |
Lake of dreams: what I learned from Chicago's healing waters. (Lake Michigan) | General interest | Susan Power |
L'amour langoureuse: a tale of seduction. (excerpt from 'Slowness') | General interest | Milan Kundera |
Let them eat lifestyle: from hip to hype - the ultimate corporate takeover. | General interest | Tom Frank |
Life after hard time: an ex-bank robber reflects on freedom's down side.(Gleanings) | General interest | J.S. Loya |
Looking for a story to tell: the Navajo path to my Jewish past.(reprinted from Winter 1996 issue of Southwest Review) | General interest | Emily Benedek |
Love for sale $5/B.O.: a journey into the savage heart of the classifieds. | General interest | Stacey Grenrock |
Making friends with fear: what to do when things fall apart.(advice from Pema Chodron)(Excerpt) | General interest | Pema Chodron |
Mama bear: an adopted son explores the hidden landscape of his family. | General interest | Colin Chisholm |
Mohammed's journey: the making of a young revolutionary. (Mohammed Brahim) | General interest | John Berger |
Mother of silence.(Mother Meera)(Tales of the New Pilgrim)(Excerpt) | General interest | Nigel Watts |
Mr. Nakata's garden: making a place in the urban landscape for beauty, breezes, and a few spare roof tiles. | General interest | Richard Savage |
Ms. Authenticity: forget Martha Stewart - Barbara McNally is the real deal. | General interest | Louise Lague |
Music: God rocks.(Mixed Media) | General interest | Keith Goetzman |
My life as a boy: one woman's path to power and freedom. | General interest | Kim Chernin |
Nature's own Prozac. (Saint-John's-wort as antidepressant) | General interest | Dana Ullman |
No exit. (analysis of American drug culture) | General interest | David Simon, Edward Burns |
No job for a grown-up: why I've got to quit being a shrink. | General interest | George D. Cohen |
Notes from nicotine hell: quitting smoking may be hazardous to my health. | General interest | Susan Shapiro |
Nowhere man: confessions of a perpetual foreigner. | General interest | Pico Iyer |
Oliver Stone. (media and the current state of society)(Interview) | General interest | Judith S. Antonelli |
One world: the grand illusion.(globalization)(Editorial) | General interest | |
Outcasts from Eden: environmental diaspora is a looming global crisis. | General interest | Nolan Fell |
Out of order. (relation of order of birth to values and attitudes) | General interest | Miles Harvey |
Paging Beijing: there's a new party line in China - and it beeps. | General interest | Margaret S. Davis |
Pensees au lait: France's latest cultural invention - the philosophical cafe - has arrived. | General interest | Jeremy Iggers |
Planet of pirates: the manic logic of global capitalism.(world citizens) | General interest | William Greider |
Political healing. (Marianne Williamson and American politics) | General interest | Helen Cordes |
Postcards to Pele: why one Hawaiian deity has her own zip code.(Excerpt) | General interest | James Houston |
Prisoners of biology: in Nepal, there's no abortion debate, just a life sentence. (includes related article on female mortality during childbirth) | General interest | Jan Goodwin |
Quiet cuisine: learning to cook with silence.(Excerpt) | General interest | Barbara Erakko Taylor |
Read my face: portraits of seven women who got out alive.(abused women) | General interest | Vera Anderson |
Remote control: how to raise a media skeptic. | General interest | Susan Douglas |
Resurgence of the real: how a new perception of body, nature, and place is transforming the world. | General interest | Charlene Spretnak |
Return to long ago.(reprinted from Winter 1997 issue of Five Points)(Tales of the New Pilgrim) | General interest | Margaret Livesy |
Running with Mary: my thing for the BVM. (Blessed Virgin Mary) | General interest | Jane Russell Simins |
Russia gets religion ... and flirts with the new age. | General interest | Irena Maryniak |
Sacred blather: up to here with "holy" hyprocites.(reprinted from Mar/Apr 1997 issue of Common Boundary) | General interest | Mark Matousek |
Schooled by Tony: a bruising lesson in compassion.(reprinted from Jan. 22, 1997 issue of The Independent) | General interest | Tito Craige |
Shit happens ... and it changed my life.(Excerpt) | General interest | Bonnie Jo Campbell |
Slack this! Gen X activists know how to take it to the streets. | General interest | Van Jones |
Son of the morning star. (writer and explorer Sir Laurens van der Post) | General interest | Mickey Lemle |
Soul attractions: 10 sites for modern seekers. | General interest | |
Soul murder: a family matter. | General interest | David Mamet |
Soul to soul: for the ancient Celts, friendship was a doorway to the eternal. | General interest | John O'Donohue |
Speaking the corn into being.(use of language by the Cherokee)(Excerpt) | General interest | Diane Glancy |
St. Petersburg on 5 million rubles a day.(reprinted from Winter 1997 issue of Salmagundi) | General interest | Charles Newman |
Strangers in uniform. (military and civilian cultures) | General interest | Amy Waldman |
Subversive stargazer.(Rob Brezny) | General interest | Steven Winn |
Suicidal tendencies: will the disabled fall victim to the "right to die?" | General interest | Kathi Wolfe |
Tales of the toothpick: the checkered past of "the world's oldest habit."(Gleanings) | General interest | Sue Hubbell |
Tales worth telling: searching for stories that challenge our poisonous myths.(Cover Story) | General interest | Jack Zipes |
The bard boom: how poetry fell out of the ivory tower. (mainstream acceptance of poetry)(includes related article) | General interest | Joel Lewis |
The Brain Exchange.(New Planet) | General interest | Jo-Ann Johnston |
The civility wars: is poverty more vulgar than profanity? | General interest | David Morris |
The color of love: feeling my way along the fault line between black and white.(reprinted from spring 1997 issue of DoubleTake) | General interest | Daniel Stolar |
The coming wattage war.(New Planet: Politics) | General interest | Curt Guyette |
The eyes of night: how I was seduced by a gator.(Excerpt) | General interest | Amy Blackman |
The four-wall future.(screening of independent films) | General interest | Dana Harris |
The geopolitics of desire: what's the real cost of fee sex in Asia. | General interest | John Winzenburg |
The goddess myth: the "golden age" of female divinities was a bad time for women. | General interest | Judith Antonelli |
The greatest story never told. (spirituality in medicine)(includes related article and interview with Albert Ellis) | General interest | Jessica Cohen |
The heart of knowing: it's time our schools stopped teaching the divided life. | General interest | Parker J. Palmer |
The Kronos Quartet: fiddling with the future.(Interview) | General interest | Steven Winn |
The last time I wore a dress: learning how to be girlie in a psyche ward. | General interest | Daphne Scholisnki |
The lion of Kabul: signs of courage and hope in a ravaged city. | General interest | Christine Aziz |
The many faces of the future: why we'll never have a universal civilization. | General interest | Samuel P. Huntington |
The most human art: ten reasons why we'll always need a good story.(reprinted from Spring 1997 issue of The Georgia Review) | General interest | Scott Russell Sanders |
The outlaw sweetener.(stevia) | General interest | Nathaniel Meade |
The power of voice: how to tune into life by freeing the song within. (inludes interview with Sweet Honey on the Rock vocalist Ysaye Barnwell) | General interest | Helen Cordes |
The primordial schmooze: was gossip the evolutionary spark for human speech? | General interest | Miles Harvey |
The Procrustean bed: how to avoid one-size-fits-all therapy. | General interest | Margaret Thaler Singer, Janja Lalich |
The queen of cool: Haysun Hahn gets paid to be hipper than the rest of us. | General interest | Andy Steiner |
The Redwood Warrier.(New Planet: Tribute) | General interest | Mark Dowie |
The redwood warrior.(New Planet) | General interest | Mark Dowle |
The rhythm method: how the power of ritual can transform your relationship to time. (includes related article) | General interest | Dick Dahl, Stephan Rechtschaffen |
The secret ingredient: spirit. (eating and spiritual satisfaction)(includes related article) | General interest | Cathy Madison, Deborah Kesten |
The seed saviors.(New Planet: World) | General interest | Minna Morse |
The setting of wings: the goose that got away. | General interest | Lynn Levy |
The turning of arrival.(Tales of the New Pilgrim)(Excerpt) | General interest | Michael Wolfe |
The urge to hurt: a chilling cry of warning from death row.(reprinted from Mar/Apr 1997 issue of Might) | General interest | Michael Ross |
The vanishing songbirds. (coffee drinkers can help in the reforestation of coffee plantations in South America) | General interest | Peter Katel |
The walking cure: when shoe leather is the best medicine. | General interest | Gregory McNamee |
The wheels of Dharma: how do you buy a car you already own? | General interest | Lawrence Shainberg |
The wisdom of hopelessness: changing the world one moment at a time.(conversation with Pema Chodron)(Interview) | General interest | Bell Hooks |
Thinking, not shrinking: I took my problem to a philosopher. | General interest | Laura Wexler |
To free the world: George Gerbner wants to save us from the global media monopoly.(Interview) | General interest | |
Waking up with the house of fire. (psychotherapist James Hillman)(Interview) | General interest | Steve Perry |
"We are not the same": real-life lessons from an African chief.(Excerpt) | General interest | Mark Jenkins |
What are your ethics?(quiz)(reprinted from April 1997 issue of New Internationalist) | General interest | |
When a wall calls:should you answer?(reprinted from Winter 1997 issue of Turning Wheel) | General interest | Patrick McMahon |
Wild things: forget deconstruction - today's hippest literary critics have gone green. | General interest | Gregory McNamee |
With pens drawn: literature should get dangerous again.(reprinted from May 1997 issue of Prospect) | General interest | Mario Vargas Llosa |
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