Algren’s Question Algren’s Question
He would hang his coat neatly over the back of his chair in the leaden station-house twilight, say he was beat from lack of sleep and lay his head across his arms upon the query-...
Dec 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon
‘Our’ Gide? ‘Our’ Gide?
Whenever Gide wrote or spoke about himself directly, which was not infrequently, he would insist that his wars within were to be traced to his very genes.
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
There You Go Again… There You Go Again…
Our correspondent, longtime Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Robert Scheer, has spent several hours over the years questioning President Reagan on a variety of subjec
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
How Now, Iron Johns? How Now, Iron Johns?
In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that "the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our...
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis
Curtain Call With Terkel Curtain Call With Terkel
Charles Kuralt, who got around a lot himself but wore out faster, once remarked: "When Studs Terkel listens, everybody talks." Not so many years ago, in fact, we asked Kuralt to ...
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Exploiting a Tragedy, or Le Rouge en Noir Exploiting a Tragedy, or Le Rouge en Noir
The author of this review is the son of a zek: My father barely survived his deportation to a Siberian camp in Vorkuta.
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by th...
Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marilyn Hacker
The Heat in the Kitchen The Heat in the Kitchen
He poses like a tightrope walker, though one who's unexpectedly domestic and chubby.
Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness
A shark swims past me in a kelp forest that sways back and forth with the current. It is deliberate and focused.
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Terry Tempest Williams