Orient Expressed: Imagism Orient Expressed: Imagism
However varied their styles, poets writing in English today still rely on the early-twentieth-century Imagist principles of clarity, directness, presentative imagery and rhythm b...
Oct 12, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Grace Schulman
Female Trouble Female Trouble
Now that Karyn Kusama's much-heralded Girlfight has opened, I figure it's time to catch up with the 1999 releases and review On the Ropes. And since I've been so slow to write ab...
Oct 12, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
House Finches House Finches
To watch the pair of house finches that frequent the neighbor's feeder, I leave the charcoal blinds pulled up. The berry-splashed chest of the male-- each morning--make...
Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Poch
The Cartography of Death The Cartography of Death
Certainly...get him hanged! Why not? Anything--anything can be done in this country. --Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness So here we are, barely into the next century, and...
Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
A One and a Two A One and a Two
I have two films to tell you about in this column, one of which I recommend to your attention because it's beautiful, absorbing, touching and droll. It will involve you in the ch...
Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Walker in the Imagined City Walker in the Imagined City
Ben Katchor had been a bit of a cultural phenomenon for nearly a decade before he became a MacArthur fellow--a first for a cartoonist--this summer; is this the beginning of comic-s...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle
from ‘Mary in Old Age’ from ‘Mary in Old Age’
"I don't want to stay here. I want to stop it." Was "here" the nursing home? Was it the chair? The condition she was in? Her life? Life? The body? . . . ......
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Ferry
2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations represents a life's work in poetry. The component volumes did not meet with fanfare, yet the work is brilliant with ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mary Kinzie
North of the Border North of the Border
One of the most haunting images in David Riker's film La Ciudad is of the New York City skyline seen from a work site miles away from midtown. There, a group of Hispanic dayworke...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Ugarte
Circus Maximus Circus Maximus
We don't have a TV at home, so we've missed the much-drubbed NBC Olympics coverage. So when a little friend of my son's said she'd been watching, I asked her if any of the event...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams