Culture

Flower Power: The Lessons Flower Power: The Lessons

An article in the financial section of the New York Observer this spring described a company named NetJ.com Corporation.

Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Prince Albert in a Can Prince Albert in a Can

What's the meaning of Al Gore? Or George Bush?

Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Corn

McCullers: Canon Fodder? McCullers: Canon Fodder?

What makes an American writer? In today's narrow, backlashed literary market the chain of command is quite clear. The "greats" are Updike, Pynchon, Mailer, Bellow and Roth.

Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Schulman

The Sri Lankan Patients The Sri Lankan Patients

This time none of that lollygagging elusiveness that began The English Patient.

Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom LeClair

To Catch a Thief To Catch a Thief

As Woody Allen awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into Jackie Gleason.

Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Block That Rush! Block That Rush!

I suppose it would be in my financial interest if Rush Limbaugh were to get his wish and become part of the broadcast team for ABC's Monday Night Football.

Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Al Franken

The Troves of Academe The Troves of Academe

"A university," poet John Ciardi acidly observed, "is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." Add this contemporary counterpunch: A college is what a...

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

Author, Author! Author, Author!

"There are more than a million writers in the United States and they write more than 500,000 books each year, 90% of which never see publication.

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow

When the CIA Was the NEA When the CIA Was the NEA

In June 1948 George Kennan, director of the State Department's policy planning staff, drafted National Security Directive NSC-10/2.

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael P. Rogin

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