Books & the Arts

A City That Worked A City That Worked

The New York of 1945 was the victorious city of the New Deal and World War II, one that can barely be glimpsed today beneath postmodern towers and billboards for dot-com enterprise...

Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder

The Speed of Poetry The Speed of Poetry

When I visit the Poetry Publication Showcase, an annual display of the year's new poetry books at Poets House in Manhattan, I feel as if I've been granted a precious audience wit...

Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jan Clausen

The Flounder The Flounder

Long before I'd gone to a theater and lashed myself to a seat, I formed two expectations about The Perfect Storm.

Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Rock & Roll Fantasies Rock & Roll Fantasies

It is a depressing rule for students of American political discourse that the more one happens to know about a given subject, the more amazing one finds the brazen ignorance that...

Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

The New World Order (They Mean It) The New World Order (They Mean It)

The United States never held a large number of direct colonies, a fact that has prompted many political leaders to declare it the great exception to colonialism.

Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

George Smiley, Move Over George Smiley, Move Over

"This is a story about a spy," writes Millicent Dillon in Harry Gold: A Novel.

Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elsa Dixler

MoMA: What’s in a Name? MoMA: What’s in a Name?

"Making Choices" at MoMA

Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Smart and Smarter Smart and Smarter

In Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey bullies a series of small children, gets into senseless fights (on the grounds that "he started it") and reverts hungrily to breast-feeding.

Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Devil and Mr. Hearst The Devil and Mr. Hearst

William Randolph Hearst is one of those people we all know was very, very famous but are never quite sure why, or what we are to think of him.

Jun 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dana Frank

The Devil in Mr. Marx The Devil in Mr. Marx

At a quarter to 3 in the afternoon on March 14, 1883, one of the world's brainiest men, Karl Marx, ceased to think. He passed away peacefully in his favorite armchair.

Jun 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield

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