Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet? Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet?

Given the number of prematurely world-weary young men and women who followed the lure of easy money, cheap alcohol and even cheaper sex to the geopolitical discount bins of the...

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eliot Borenstein

Unfinished Women Unfinished Women

Imaginary Friends, The Mercy Seat

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman

Explaining ‘The Magician’ Explaining ‘The Magician’

Thomas Mann's popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks family business. It is in decline.

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

The Year in Pictures The Year in Pictures

Looking backward in the January chill, I feel my eyes shoot past the films of 2002 toward a movie made some thirty years ago: a picture by Martin Scorsese about violent, driven...

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

I first read Samuel Delany's Tales of Nevèrÿon during the high-geek days of junior high.

Jan 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

Tap Roots Tap Roots

It's a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the world, because he's the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty

Prick Up Your Ears Prick Up Your Ears

How does a fiercely anticorporate musician feel about participating in a corporate entertainment system?

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

The Power of Music The Power of Music

Talking With Eddie Vedder, Boots Riley, Amy Ray, Carrie Brownstein, Tom Morello

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ann Powers

Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs

Picture this: you're stranded on a desert island with nothing to comfort you but sand, sun and, miraculously, the solar-powered sound system that washed up with you.