Partisan Requiem Partisan Requiem
The announcement a few weeks ago that Partisan Review was closing shop after a run of nearly seventy years brought sadness--since PR at its best was a central site of American ...
May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter Brooks
The Revolution Within The Revolution Within
In the current national climate, the notion that Washington might learn from the experience of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev would strike most as...
May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert D. English
Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society
It is agonizingly difficult to write about one's hometown as it drowns in flames and suffocates with smoke.
May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon
Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Kurdish Delight Kurdish Delight
International cinema has an irresistible new pair of reprobates: middle-aged brothers who can do no right in their lives and no wrong before the camera.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame
To listen to her voice was to be hijacked by its power.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Bird on a Wire Bird on a Wire
I didn't have to wait long for Ziad, the plumber, to come to my house. It had been a year since the current Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000, and unemployment w...
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh
The Intuitionist The Intuitionist
Writers write by trying to find out what it is they're writing.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / E.L. Doctorow
The Revell Variations The Revell Variations
How much, in just twenty years, Donald Revell has changed! From the Abandoned Cities (1983), his debut volume, included a villanelle, a sestina, rhymed sonnets and meditative t...
Apr 24, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt
Minority Report Minority Report
Ever since Clark Kent first donned a pair of oversized glasses and, somewhat improbably, hid his Superman persona from Lois Lane, questions of identity have been a staple of th...
Apr 24, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Alan Jenkins