Books & the Arts

The Mess in Mesopotamia The Mess in Mesopotamia

If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on Iraq, click here for information on how to acquire individual access to the Archive--an electronic database of every...

Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Cockburn

Untimely Meditations Untimely Meditations

Beethoven has been particularly fortunate in his recent critics and biographers.

Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Edward W. Said

Space Is the Place Space Is the Place

I recently returned to dingy England after a road trip in America, where, as usual, I failed to take any photographs.

Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Geoff Dyer

Creative Destruction Creative Destruction

Edward Burtynsky's photographs are large, colorful and mostly ravishing, despite their subjects.

Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

I know how to work hard but not how to play. Take last summer. On my first night of vacation, I went to bed with David Brock's Blinded By the Right.

Aug 12, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence

If you've seen Pleasantville--the story of teenagers who are magically transported from 1990s reality into 1950s television--you know that its writer-director, Gary Ross, has a...

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Paint It Black Paint It Black

If the idea of monochrome painting occurred to anyone before the twentieth century, it would have been understood as a picture of a monochrome reality, and probably taken as a ...

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Thieves Like Us Thieves Like Us

In March 2001 a small Internet website in Delhi, tehelka.com, revealed that two of its reporters had used a secret camera to tape senior defense officials and political leaders...

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar

Soul Man Soul Man

Pop music's eternal appeal can be found in one instance out of many: "This Magic Moment," a 1960 song by The Drifters.

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

American troops have been in Iraq since March, and their reception has been decidedly chillier than promised.

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Emily Biuso

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