Books & the Arts

The Rest of Love The Rest of Love

The hive is for where the honey was. Was findable there, then not. Sometimes, I think I dreamed it, or I am saying it like a thing

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips

Dissident or Apologist? Dissident or Apologist?

The Iraqi-American writer and Brandeis professor Kanan Makiya is nowadays considered by many in the United States to be the Iraqi dissident par excellence.

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon

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

Who Killed Emmett Till? Who Killed Emmett Till?

The summer before 14-year-old Trent Lott entered all-white Pascagoula High School in Mississippi, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till convinced his mother to let...

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Holmberg and Rebecca Segall

The Fix at Ground Zero The Fix at Ground Zero

The second year of machinations at the World Trade Center site has gotten off to a vigorous start.

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Philip Nobel

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

Unfinished Women Unfinished Women

Imaginary Friends, The Mercy Seat

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

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

‘Stakes Is High’ ‘Stakes Is High’

Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Chang

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