We’re All Ears We’re All Ears
An accomplished journalist weaves a narrative about the NSA that includes sympathetic portraits of key players.
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
Blowin’ in His Own Wind Blowin’ in His Own Wind
How the protest singer turned surrealistic prophet.
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The Gift Outright The Gift Outright
Readers of this magazine do not need reminders of the costs of the cold war. The mountains of corpses, the damaged lives, divided families and displaced refugees, the secret poli...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Casey Nelson Blake
The Uncertainty Principals The Uncertainty Principals
American intellectuals love the higher gossip because it gives intellectual life here--ignored or sneered at by the public--a good name. Sensational anecdotes (Harvard's Louis Aga...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
In the Bosom of Jesus In the Bosom of Jesus
The almost exact coincidence in time between the destruction of the Buddha figures by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's renewed jihad against the Brooklyn Mu...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Black Entertainment Television’s ‘Lifestyle’ Choice Black Entertainment Television’s ‘Lifestyle’ Choice
The departure of Tavis Smiley leaves a hole in the programming calendar of BET, but that's only part of the problem.
Apr 26, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Makani Themba
Discovery/The Nation ’01 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’01 Prizewinners
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize.
Apr 19, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Grace Schulman
Beauty and the Beastly Beauty and the Beastly
Jean Clair, director of the Musée Picasso in Paris and widely respected both as scholar and art critic, has for some years been out of sympathy with contemporary art. Wh...
Apr 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Visiting the Folks Visiting the Folks
I was born by a Kerouac stream under Eisenhower skies --John Gorka The New Folk Movement is now about twenty years old, an...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The Black Box The Black Box
OK, no Lifelines, no 50-50s, no Audience Participation if you want to be a millionaire: Name the first great African-American sitcom of the New Millennium... Correct! The 2000 pre...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson