NYer Haiku: September 11, 2006
New Yorker Haiku
Five Years After: September 11, 2006
The Financial Page: Osama's Bank Account
By Steve Coll
Family account
For Osama's share of wealth
Has no balance now.
Dept. of Law Enforcement: Junior
By Jane Mayer
He knows Al Qaeda,
But wants to know the ladies:
FBI's odd source.
Letter From Gaza: The Forgotten War
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Hamas suffering.
Wimpy rockets, and no press?
"We're the real martyrs!"
Annals of Terrorism: The Master Plan
By Lawrence Wright
Al Qaeda? Old news:
Islamists' twenty year plan
Has more to offer.
Letter From Sudan
By George Packer
When hardline dead-ends,
Taha's tolerant Islam
May be future's choice.
Fiction: Black Ice
By Cate Kennedy
Don't mock country folk.
They like rabbits, trees, but most:
To have the last laugh.
A Critic At Large: Surveillance Society
By Caleb Cain
Mass observation:
Taking notes on normal lives.
Nice thought; didn't last.
Books: Heaven's Gate
By Joan Acocella
McDermott's novel
Probes tragedy, mercy of
Middling postwar lives.
The Art World: New and Old
By Peter Schjeldahl
Works at MOMA show
New media's range, and need
For subjects as strong.
The Current Cinema: Supermen
By Anthony Lane
Affleck, Lane capture
(in "Hollywoodland") rise, fall
Of super-fifties.
2 Comments:
Your format implies
The original authors
Wrote your haikus too
Doctor Yau cries foul;
Ms Nasar wrong and unfair!
Wants damage undone.
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