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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña, David Hajdu. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 328 pages, $25.00. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, Howard Sounes. Grove Press, 527 pages, $27.50. Because folk music in the 1960s was driven […]

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 221 pages, $23.00. Women’s work in America can be an ugly business–hard, repetitive labor,usually for low wages and male bosses. There is the pink-collar ghetto of retailand office jobs, and then there is worse: employment in sweatshops and fast-foodrestaurants and domestic […]

In the black-and-white introduction to Chinese director Zhang Yimou’saward-winning film The Road Home, a citified businessman returns, with down parka and four-wheel drive, to the remote mountain village where he grew up. His father has just died, and he has come back to this rural, snowbound enclave to help prepare for the funeral. Devastated by […]

Of course America needs a foreign policy! The title of Henry Kissinger’s newbook suggests that it hasn’t had one recently–a thesis supported by his manycriticisms of President Bill Clinton’s diplomacy as well as by the statement,early in the book, that “in the face of perhaps the most profound and widespreadupheavals the world has ever seen,” […]