Bloomsburied in China Bloomsburied in China
A divide exists between Chinese literature and movies written, produced, read or viewed in the West, and those written and produced in mainlaind China.
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia Laurence
Dangerous Liaisons Dangerous Liaisons
He says he is not a fighter--or rather, the narrator says it; he's "an onlooker," someone who steps aside, "frail," "not the savior of the world," not a "prophet," speaking onl...
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Joseph McElroy
The Tragedy of William O. Douglas The Tragedy of William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a judicial record-setter.
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David J. Garrow
Respectfully Yours Respectfully Yours
Richard Sennett is best known in the United States for his 1972 book (written with Jonathan Cobb), The Hidden Injuries of Class. That study of white working-class men, how they...
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon
A Stone Unturned A Stone Unturned
Someone once described Graham Greene as the novelist of decolonizing Britain.
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
To the Unfinished To the Unfinished
Clear eminence without whom I would be
nothing oh great provision never seen
barely acknowledged even wished away
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin
Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes
While Michael Moore was leaving the stage of the Kodak Theater during the seventy-fifth annual Academy Awards ceremony, after calling George W.
Mar 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
There's no better antidote to orange alerts and duct-tape dictums than good fiction, and if the terrorists occupying the White House have shot your attention span, try a book of ...
Mar 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Judith Long
‘For the Monkey’ ‘For the Monkey’
When James Agee wrote in these pages sixty years ago, he often complained of the paltriness of this or that movie, as judged against the events of the day.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Reading Leonardo Reading Leonardo
In 1906, the French savant Pierre Duhem published a three-volume work on Leonardo as scientist under the innocuous title Études sur Leonard de Vinci. It was the work's s...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto