Jewtopia Jewtopia
Yiddish, a national language that never had a nation-state, may no longer have millions of speakers, but it remains contested territory nonetheless.
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Stankonia Stankonia
Fifty years ago, a young Polish journalist named Leopold Tyrmand lost his job at the country's last surviving independent publication, the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, ...
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
In Radical Matrimony In Radical Matrimony
Suzanne Wasserman's documentary Thunder in Guyana, which airs on PBS's Independent Lens series at 10 pm on February 22, is the first in-depth look at Janet Jagan, former presiden...
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Baz Dreisinger
When Seeing Was Believing When Seeing Was Believing
In Hegel's formidable system of aesthetics, fine art fulfills its highest calling when "it has placed itself in the same sphere as religion and philosophy." Philosophy, religion ...
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Dazed and Confused Dazed and Confused
Perhaps no cultural phenomenon has been as successful at demonizing alcohol as MTV's The Real World. Watch it sometime. You'll never want to drink again.
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen
Constantine Constantine
About two-thirds of the speaking characters in Constantine are either demons or angels.
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Visible Man Visible Man
The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate
Show Me the Money! Show Me the Money!
Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent's undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by t...
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Misunderstanding Iran Misunderstanding Iran
A threatening storm gathers in the Middle East.
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Reza Aslan
Grand Illusion Grand Illusion
André Malraux incarnated a certain ideal of "the French intellectual." A writer of international renown, he distinguished himself as a man of action before going on to bec...
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini