A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism
In his 1998 book, One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe chided liberals for their misapprehensions about the political attitudes of ordinary Americans.
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing
Shooting Wars Shooting Wars
In her new book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag's focus is upon theaters of war and the way in which photographers have interpreted their role in the production of ...
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter Wollen
She’s Gotta Have It She’s Gotta Have It
In his 1997 song "Highlands," Bob Dylan reports a conversation between himself and a waitress. "She says, You don't read women authors, do you?/...
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Claire Dederer
Access Memory Access Memory
The threshold between one and zero Blurs-- Blurs-- a drift of charge filters through--
Sep 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / James McCorkle
Tokyo Story Tokyo Story
A Love Affair for the postcollege, flirting-with-Buddhism set, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is a travelogue of the emotions, concerned with the deepening relationship be...
Sep 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Bleak Haus Bleak Haus
Though still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard, who died in 1989 at the age of 57, is widely recognized as ...
Sep 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson
From Protest to Patronage From Protest to Patronage
Bayard Rustin forged a remarkable career as a social activist. Briefly a member of the Young Communist League, he repudiated communism but remained a socialist throughout his l...
Sep 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Randall Kennedy
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I'd like to say that I came across the poet Agha Shahid Ali of my own accord, browsing through the shelves of a bookshop or library and taking immediately to his finely structure...
Sep 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Priyanka Motaparthy
The Blue Laws The Blue Laws
My mother, a brunette, hurried in her cloth coat through postwar Sundays, which fell
Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Logan
Liberal Pieties Liberal Pieties
CORRECTION: The Fisher family of Six Feet Under is Episcopalian, not Catholic. (10/1)
Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski