Stories by Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992.
Posted on Nov 12, 2010, Source: Huffington Post
In America, you are never supposed to treat divorce with anything but appalled lamentations. Here's an alternative.
Posted on Sep 1, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
The Sarah Palin pick is an attempt to turn the women's movement upside down, offering someone who reinforces patriarchal power.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
When Barack Obama tells the truth about conditions as we know them Hillary takes the low road.
Posted on Jan 5, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
There's no excuse for adding a war-monger with blood on his hands to the NYT's op-ed page.
Posted on Nov 3, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
We should take the criminality of the Bush administration's torture policy seriously, and that means making sure they are not above the law. (Also: A waterboarding simulation photoseries.)
Posted on Apr 18, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
Americans will always have guns. But it would be nice if the gun-toting right wing admitted that there is a price we pay.
Posted on Mar 22, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
Let's put it this way: Carpet bombing is much more costly in every way than good intelligence and loyal allies. It's a pocketbook issue.
Posted on Jan 17, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
The longer Bush is in office, the more his psychology becomes clear. He's not a well-meaning doofus; he's a madman.
Posted on Oct 28, 2006, Source: Huffington Post
There aren't many tyrants in history who can truthfully say they put the entire future of civilization at risk just to make a buck -- but Dick Cheney can.
Posted on Aug 23, 2006, Source: Huffington Post
Since Reagan's election, our government has catered to the needs of corporations that refuse to accept the destructive consequences of their actions.
Posted on May 16, 2006, Source: Huffington Post
Temper tantrums, blaming others, revenge-seeking, destruction of property, deceitfulness and stealing -- it all adds up to a grim diagnosis.
Posted on Feb 7, 2006, Source: Huffington Post
Why Islamic rioters in the Middle East and Europe are like South Carolinians during the American Civil War.
