TransAfrica’s Tribute to Ruby Dee TransAfrica’s Tribute to Ruby Dee
"She is our elder and our sister and our daughter. We celebrate her as we celebrate the moon: our guide through the dark, dark night."
Dec 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Walter Mosley
Dreamlife Without Angels Dreamlife Without Angels
John Ashbery has given us the ideal poetry for the Information Age.
Nov 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Orwelled Orwelled
A recent collection of essays brings George Orwell into the new millennium.
Nov 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
Dark Rooms Dark Rooms
Nov 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield
Pointe Work Pointe Work
Nureyev: The Life brings new focus to an iconic figure of modern ballet.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Many Exits Many Exits
Philip Roth's Exit Ghost considers whether we're astonished by death or the life that precedes it.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Matt Weiland
The Nijinsky of Ambivalence The Nijinsky of Ambivalence
During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation's experience through his prodigious ego.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
Love by a Thousand Cuts Love by a Thousand Cuts
Museums can't get enough of Kara Walker, whose silhouettes of the history of slavery seem to be a nightmare she's trying to enjoy.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
A Colder War A Colder War
Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Underworlds Underworlds
Gangsters have guns and muscle, but a good writer always gets the last word.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Henry Farrell