Books & the Arts

The Big Sleep The Big Sleep

From its inception, the AIDS pandemic has generated extraordinary expressions of sadness and anger. The sadness is easy to understand.

Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Sheila M. Rothman

Lewis of Arabia Lewis of Arabia

I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and later Samuel Huntington, designated the "clash of civilizations" between Christendom and Islam up close in at least two wars.

Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Charles Glass

The Life of the Mind The Life of the Mind

Isaiah Berlin once told his biographer, Michael Ignatieff, that "I have a natural tendency to gossip, to describing things, to noticing things, to interest in human beings and th...

Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Sunil Khilnani

State of the Union, 2004 State of the Union, 2004

This article is excerpted from Gore Vidal's latest book, Imperial America, just published by Nation Books.

Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Gore Vidal

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

Is the United States--as so many have said, in celebration or dismay--a planet-mastering empire or not? The question presses upon us as George W.

Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Bad Brains Bad Brains

More than once in Jonathan Demme's reimagining of The Manchurian Candidate, a distraught Denzel Washington jabs at his skull and rasps, "They got in here." He means it literally.

Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Middle Man The Middle Man

Over the century that followed the Napoleonic wars, the Ottoman Empire contracted and eventually disappeared from the map.

Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower

The Lost Steps The Lost Steps

American policy-makers may be divided into two schools of thought on the Arab-Israeli conflict: the evenhanded and the Israel-first.

Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Avi Shlaim

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

I could hardly believe it when I heard Jane Jacobs was still alive and that she had written a new book, Dark Age Ahead, at the age of 88.

Aug 3, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ben Adler

Shadows and Smog Shadows and Smog

I paid to see Will Smith fight legions of robots, and what I got was a trip back to Wabash Street.

Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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