Rhapsody in Blue Rhapsody in Blue
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams
Our Victorian Ancestors Our Victorian Ancestors
"You are the heirs of one of the country's great traditions, the Progressive movement that started late in the nineteenth century and remade the American experience piece by pi...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
Justice Talking Justice Talking
In his memoir, Taking Liberties, Aryeh Neier emerges, almost despite himself, as a fascinating man.
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Scott L. Malcomson
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
In 1990, The Nation ran a dispatch from Portland, Oregon, by editorial board member Elinor Langer titled "The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today." The piece, which took up almost...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Emily Biuso
London Kills Me London Kills Me
Monica Ali was recently named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists--an A-list of red-hot literary youth writing some of the most promising books on the contemporary ...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Diana Abu-Jaber
Death and Glory Death and Glory
The premature deaths in the past year of Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer ought to be enough to make the most pious among us angry at The Man Upstairs.
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Ancestors Ancestors
They are bicycling into the sun. He has a dhoti on under his coat and a briefcase with LYRIC marked in big letters.
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Meena Alexander
French Connections French Connections
The setting is a one-room schoolhouse, which is momentarily unoccupied except for a pair of turtles.
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Savage Modernism Savage Modernism
A refugee from Nazism and a distinguished New York psychoanalyst, Sandor Rado had thought long and deeply about Hitler's takeover of Germany. Years ago, the writer Otto Friedri...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
On a hot, dusty summer day in 1998, I drove with friends from Smolensk to the village of Zagor'e to meet Ivan Tvardovsky, a survivor of Stalin's forced-labor camps and the brot...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Viola