The Black Box The Black Box
OK, no Lifelines, no 50-50s, no Audience Participation if you want to be a millionaire: Name the first great African-American sitcom of the New Millennium... Correct! The 2000 pre...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
According to Doyle According to Doyle
Which Booker Prize-winner could give Hollywood the boot in the arse it needs and secretly craves? Roddy Doyle, that's who. His Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, The...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
The French Act Up The French Act Up
The election this March of an openly gay Mayor of Paris--the Socialist Bertrand Delanoë--would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. That's one reason the American edit...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Doug Ireland
Visiting the Folks Visiting the Folks
I was born by a Kerouac stream under Eisenhower skies --John Gorka The New Folk Movement is now about twenty years old, an...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
"Ishall never be able to forget," writes Christopher Hitchens of the poems of the slain Wilfred Owen, "the way in which these verses utterly turned over all the furniture of my mi...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Auschwitz: The Counterlife Auschwitz: The Counterlife
There is a brief but arresting passage in Primo Levi's 1947 classic memoir Survival in Auschwitz (originally titled If This Is a Man) about a French Jewish inmate he identifies...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Lawrence N. Powell
Gleaners Over Gladiators Gleaners Over Gladiators
During the false calm that descends between the announcement of Oscar nominations and the bad-TV night of their awards, the smug nominees are routinely re-released to a presumably...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
Hymn Hymn
Sounds that twisted around the room like smoke, bludgeoning, blossoming, where I did not want to find them, but I find them over and over. Father, bless your hair. Bless your hamm...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Yerra Sugarman
The Drowned and the Unsaved The Drowned and the Unsaved
He jumped, of course. But also he was pushed. And when Primo Levi, on "a sudden violent impulse," threw himself down three flights of stairwell in the Art Nouveau apartment hou...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Third Annual Hollywood Issue Third Annual Hollywood Issue
THIS IS THE THIRD of what now threatens to become The Nation's annual Hollywood issue. Following in the footsteps of the catholic Mr. Soderbergh, whose Y2K output ran the gamut fr...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind