Hawking Vietnam Hawking Vietnam
With the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American withdrawal from Vietnam hard upon us, readers and viewers may well be treated to a multitude of reprises of the arguments surrou...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Richard Falk
Final Cut on Final Solution? Final Cut on Final Solution?
Since you presumably know the basics about the Holocaust--if you don't, I would suggest that a movie review is no place to learn them--I will jump to the main question about The ...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Compleat Walker The Compleat Walker
Shortly before he died, Bruce Chatwin found God. This was on top of Mount Athos, after which he left for Katmandu. Looking down from the bees and grapes, he had seen an iron cros...
Apr 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Reparting the Waters Reparting the Waters
It is delightfully ironic that a site has been approved for the construction of a monument in Martin Luther King Jr.'s name on the Washington Mall, given that in the last months ...
Apr 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jason Sokol
Semper Fi, But Why? Semper Fi, But Why?
Were I to tell you that Rules of Engagement features a protracted fistfight between Samuel L.
Apr 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Poetry Poetry
After Troy
Not quite putting on what little power or knowledge
pigeons lay claim to, she nonetheless bids them come.
Launched off cornices,
Apr 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Passages to India Passages to India
In the early 1920s, E.M.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
Decline of the West Decline of the West
"I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided," said Sam Shepard, explaining his motivation for writing True West. "It's a real thing, double nature.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
Her Own Lambs and Falcons Her Own Lambs and Falcons
It really is about time we had the letters of Rebecca West.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Georgette Fleischer
He Took a Village He Took a Village
In the role of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell--source and subject alike of Joe Gould's Secret--Stanley Tucci adopts the hesitant drawl of a displaced Southern aristocrat, who ...
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans