Culture

Apocalypse Now? Apocalypse Now?

Judgment Day is everyday with Mike Davis.

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay

Occupation Blues Occupation Blues

While Israel's decisive victories on the battlefield and overwhelming advantage in military force are crucial to its dominance in the Middle East, perhaps just as important is ...

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Jensen

The Conservative Imagination The Conservative Imagination

Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / George Packer

Beyond the AIDS Quilt Beyond the AIDS Quilt

Last year marked the "twentieth anniversary" of AIDS, a grim occasion, to say the least, that put major US newspapers in an unenviable predicament.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

Frederick Seidel of St. Louis Frederick Seidel of St. Louis

Frederick Seidel of St. Louis, Missouri, is probably the last American decadent--certainly he is the most distinguished.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robyn Creswell

Mamet Goes Wildeing Mamet Goes Wildeing

The great disparity in the critical reaction to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, now playing Off Broadway, serves to remind us that opinions are just that--neither right nor wrong, but...

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman

Diary of the Bridget Joneses Diary of the Bridget Joneses

If single women have been told once, they've been told a thousand times: Don't think you're ever too successful or too young to have your ovaries shrivel up and die. Use 'em or...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ashley Nelson

Is It Still Rock & Roll to You? Is It Still Rock & Roll to You?

A lot of nonsense has been written about the choreographer Twyla Tharp and her hit Broadway show, Movin' Out, since it opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on October 24.

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty

Who Will Tell the People? Who Will Tell the People?

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg's story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a "dedicated cold warrior" who supported A...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine

Adeptations Adeptations

Even without the aid of Smell-o-Vision, Charlie Kaufman's bedroom comes across as dank.

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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