Books & the Arts

Love Streams Love Streams

Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, which opened this year's New York Film Festival on a somber but resonant note, is perhaps the finest western ever to be set in South Boston.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Two Poems by Marianne Moore Two Poems by Marianne Moore

Eight of Marianne Moore's major poems were published in The Nation in the 1940s and '50s, including "The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing," "In Distrust of Merits" and "A Carriage F...

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

La Japonaise La Japonaise

With each last reverberation from the world of 1960s and '70s radicalism--the recent parole of Kathy Boudin, for example, a member of the Weather Underground who served twenty-...

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan

The Man Without Qualities The Man Without Qualities

The hero of The Namesake is an American of Bengali parentage named Gogol Ganguli.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Bromwich

Local Color Local Color

A review of Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak

Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child

Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain attracted considerable attention some years back; it was widely read as a fictionalized version of literary critic Anatole Broyard's life.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams

Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’ Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’

Eben Moglen has been representing parties sued by the recording industry and is working on a book about the death of intellectual property.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen

What’s On K Street? What’s On K Street?

HBO's new political program is a vivid (and disgusting) expression of our decayed democracy.

Oct 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

Judgment Day Judgment Day

The antigay bias that permeates the Republican Party can be clearly seen in Bush's judicial appointments. Among the unalloyed homophobes Bush has nominated for the federal benc...

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Doug Ireland

Rhapsody in Blue Rhapsody in Blue

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams

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