Blood Simple Blood Simple
Half a century has passed since Manny Farber wrote in these pages about underground films, by which he meant the urban crime movies watched by male loiterers near the Greyhound s...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Men in Dark Times Men in Dark Times
"I am very happy to see so many flowers here and that is why I want to remind you that flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women who...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
In the Penal Colony In the Penal Colony
Alberto Gonzales's nomination to succeed John Ashcroft as Attorney General put the Abu Ghraib torture scandal back on the front pages, since he was directly implicated, as White ...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lisa Hajjar
The Rebirth of the Modern The Rebirth of the Modern
The letterhead of Columbia University, where I taught for four decades, reads in full "Columbia University in the City of New York," not because there is much likelihood that any...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Beyond Good and Evil Beyond Good and Evil
Adorno said, as we all know, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. This is not to say, as many imagine, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is to be forbidden, or is i...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
The Commerce of Commemoration The Commerce of Commemoration
Andrew Rice covered commercial real estate development for the New York Observer from 2000 until 2002.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice
Music for Change Music for Change
Springsteen's got it right: No retreat.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Toomey and Rob Rosenthal
Pundit Limbo: How Low Can They Go? Pundit Limbo: How Low Can They Go?
What do Robert Novak and Armstrong Williams have to do before they're completely discredited?
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Geezerstock Geezerstock
When I was a kid--this was before television--the radio was my best friend.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Paul Krassner
The Inflation of the Attorney-General The Inflation of the Attorney-General
This essay, from the October 1, 1874, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on t...
Jan 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation