Dazed and Confused Dazed and Confused
Perhaps no cultural phenomenon has been as successful at demonizing alcohol as MTV's The Real World. Watch it sometime. You'll never want to drink again.
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen
Constantine Constantine
About two-thirds of the speaking characters in Constantine are either demons or angels.
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Visible Man Visible Man
The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate
Show Me the Money! Show Me the Money!
Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent's undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by t...
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Misunderstanding Iran Misunderstanding Iran
A threatening storm gathers in the Middle East.
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Reza Aslan
Grand Illusion Grand Illusion
André Malraux incarnated a certain ideal of "the French intellectual." A writer of international renown, he distinguished himself as a man of action before going on to bec...
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini
My Life as a Man My Life as a Man
I've heard Argentines say that Buenos Aires is more densely populated by psychoanalysts than anyplace else in the world.
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Buddha for the Blue States A Buddha for the Blue States
Scholars of the New Testament speculate that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the canonical Gospels to be composed, sometime between 68 and 73 CE, or thirty-five to forty year...
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Donald S. Lopez Jr.
In Cold Blood In Cold Blood
Daphne Eviatar has written on Africa for the New York Times Magazine and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She last wrote for The Nation on Angola.
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daphne Eviatar
Uneasy Rider Uneasy Rider
It's not often that a new style appears in American prose, but this is what happened with John Haskell's first book, a collection of short stories called I am not Jackson Pollock...
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel