The Cost of Integrity The Cost of Integrity
The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey's The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey's best-selling memoir "A Million Little Pieces" raises questions abo...
Jan 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kluger
Cruel and Unusual Punishment Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Michael Haneke's Caché is a stylish thriller that scrapes away at the surface of polite European affluence to lay bare the moral rot beneath.
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Her Mind’s Eye In Her Mind’s Eye
Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Rée
Easier Said Than Done Easier Said Than Done
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism explores the middle ground between the universal laws of liberalism and relativism's blind respect for all differences.
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Gray
Working-Class Hero Working-Class Hero
While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who...
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William P. Jones
Harry Magdoff Harry Magdoff
The late socialist economist Harry Magdoff read Marx at fifteen and never looked back. A self-educated co-editor of the Monthly Review, he not only fought for a just and humane wor...
Jan 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Of Queers and Kong Of Queers and Kong
From Brokeback Mountain's closeted cowboys to King Kong's embrace of Anne Darrow, Hollywood has queered cherished icons of masculinity. But the two films paint a bleak picture: Lov...
Jan 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
What You Do What You Do
when nobody's looking
in the black sites what you do
when nobody knows you
are in there what you do
Jan 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Maxine Kumin
La Vie de Bohème La Vie de Bohème
Drawing from the New York counterculture in which he immersed himself, Ted Berrigan's sonnets and other poems sing beautifully about being broken and graceful and tough.
Jan 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Dr. Fun Dr. Fun
Kenneth Koch was one of the merrier in the bunch known as the New York School of poets. But he was more than just a poet of humor. He sought the essential nature of human existence...
Jan 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak