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
Operation Iranian Freedom Operation Iranian Freedom
Click here to read Iran's New Strong Man by Andrew Roth from the September 5, 1953 issue of The Nation.
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tariq Ali
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I've been bashfully mute amidst the chatter over Norman Rush's new novel, Mortals, because he wasn't on the modest list of Writers I Know About.
Jul 21, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Bradley
Badlands Badlands
It's always good fun to see a boy wax romantic over the first girl to give him a handjob--and if the boy should be a black-hatted Jew, the fun is only improved.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans