Rockin’ for the Free World Rockin’ for the Free World
MoveOn.org joins forces with Lollapalooza to make change in November.
May 25, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Band of Insiders Band of Insiders
I know, you're too hip to see Troy.
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Metaphysical Couple The Metaphysical Couple
This book has a past, which begins at least in 1995, when Elzbieta Ettinger brought out a controversial account of the unpublished correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Martin...
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Carol Brightman
From the Prompter’s Box From the Prompter’s Box
Those first-nights when I see my charge's panic, And, in quick whispers, slip him mislaid lines, Untangled recognition scenes will light
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn
The North Korean Conundrum The North Korean Conundrum
In the prevailing American stereotype, North Korea is a failing Stalinist dictatorship held together only by the ruthless repression of a mad ruler who dreams of firing nuclear w...
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Selig S. Harrison
Who Let the Punks Out? Who Let the Punks Out?
The young and the angry mosh the vote for the November election.
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Kristin V. Jones
The Moral Case Against the Iraq War The Moral Case Against the Iraq War
The crimes at Abu Ghraib are a direct expression of the kind of war we are waging in Iraq.
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Paul Savoy
Artists Without Borders Artists Without Borders
Three years ago I saw a work by the late Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth that so captivated me that I am determined to write a book just to be able to reproduce it on the jacke...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Good War The Good War
For the last three and a half years the Israeli army has deployed American-supplied F-16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, armored Caterpillar bulldozers and Merkava tanks po...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Joel Beinin
Darkness Visible Darkness Visible
Shortly after the first anniversary of September 11, when The New Yorker had published a slew of poems memorializing the events of that day--Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers F...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Lexi Rudnitsky