Culture

Home for the Holidays Home for the Holidays

Director Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums' is full of bittersweet whimsy.

Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Ms. Heads West Ms. Heads West

What's next for Ms. magazine now that it's hit the ripe age of 30 and is now heading west?

Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Sandler

Trafficking in Verse Trafficking in Verse

Immigrants and traffickers are the subjects of a certain style of Mexican music.

Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

A Poet Duly Noted A Poet Duly Noted

The 'Collected Poems' is an extraordinary book, says reviewer Ian Tromp.

Dec 13, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ian Tromp

Not Just Village People Not Just Village People

Once confined to the closet, gays are now making headway in mainstream society.

Dec 13, 2001 / Books & the Arts / George De Stefano

The Eurocrush on Books The Eurocrush on Books

Mergers and the Internet are changing the publishing industry. What lies ahead?

Dec 13, 2001 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin

Gorbachev’s Revolution Gorbachev’s Revolution

Gorbachev represented a unique change in Soviet statesmanship; two books examine him and the end of the Cold War.

Dec 13, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Walter C. Uhler

Lights! Cameras! Attack! Hollywood Enlists Lights! Cameras! Attack! Hollywood Enlists

The Taliban may have met its match: the American Dream Machine.

Nov 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper

Which America Will We Be Now? Which America Will We Be Now?

September 11 showed us true American heroes. Now let's build on their strength.

Nov 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Bill Moyers

The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer

The conflict between Roth and Howe was partly temperamental, but some of it was generational.

Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein

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