Bull’s Eye Bull’s Eye
This was the summer when the movies were so bad, people were reduced to complaining about a Mel Gibson film they hadn't seen.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Regarding the Pain of Others Regarding the Pain of Others
In Plato's Republic, Socrates illustrates his theory of the parts of the soul with the story of Leontius, who saw some corpses rotting outside the walls of Athens and was torn ...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Swing Time for Hitler Swing Time for Hitler
It is of some small comfort that totalitarian regimes are never quite as total as either their leaders or subsequent historians might imagine.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
The Life of the Party The Life of the Party
Interesting Times is a curiously feeble title for an autobiography, rather as if Noam Chomsky were to write an article called "Could America Do Better?" It carries, of co...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
Urban Legend Urban Legend
Here's our man, starring in a movie about himself.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
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