Immortality Immortality
There are killer weeds, deep in the flower patch, down at the bottom of the tombstone. Only they'll seem to breed out of the ground itself.
Jun 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert Mazzocco
Our Man in Jazz Our Man in Jazz
Not many people can say they changed the world and make it stick. In Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, George Wein does.
Jun 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
White Teeth White Teeth
Norman Rush's first novel, Mating (1991), opens with a nervous but gripping epigram: "In Africa, you want more, I think." The speaker, an unnamed American anthropologist who do...
Jun 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood
Secrets and Lies Secrets and Lies
You would hope that the passage of fifty years might have cleared the passions that once inflamed the Rosenberg case.
Jun 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Philip Weiss
The Everything Expert The Everything Expert
Toward the end of his memoir, My Brother's Keeper, Amitai Etzioni recounts meeting with the political consultant Dick Morris.
Jun 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert S. Boynton
Candid Camera Candid Camera
I have often been asked the difference between movie reviews and film criticism; and after much thought, I've decided the answer is about one week.
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Playing the Field Playing the Field
"In society the homosexual's life must be discreetly concealed. As material for drama, that life must be even more intensely concealed.
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
The Empire Strikes Back The Empire Strikes Back
A few years in Washington, DC, snake-oil capital of the universe, and you begin to think that anything can be packaged as something else. Well, almost anything.
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Anatol Lieven
The Other Japanese Occupation The Other Japanese Occupation
When Tokyo took over Manchuria, its propagandists spoke of "liberation."
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / John W. Dower
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading ...
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell