Fear and Loathing in Italy Fear and Loathing in Italy
Nineteen sixty-eight came early to Italy--it began with student protests at the University of Trento in 1967--and lasted longer, arguably, than anywhere else.
Mar 9, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Frederika Randall
Jews Without Borders Jews Without Borders
Although revered in certain circles as something close to holy writ, Edward W.
Mar 9, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
LOVECRAFT: Tales
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Justin Taylor
Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah
What might it mean to call a film indispensable? Perhaps not much. At base level, we'd merely be asserting that other films (maybe the vast majority) are candidates for the garba...
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
American Graffiti American Graffiti
In the works that made him famous, Jasper Johns realized an ancient dream by painting things that overcame the distinction between reality and representation--numerals, for examp...
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Man Who Wasn’t There The Man Who Wasn’t There
Christopher Marlowe's life was short, sharp and irresistible.
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift
Porto Alegre Postcard Porto Alegre Postcard
This year's World Social Forum gave culture its due--and reaped the rewards.
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
On the Risk of Having a Notoriously Foul-Mouthed Comedian Host the Oscars On the Risk of Having a Notoriously Foul-Mouthed Comedian Host the Oscars
Though having Rock, some said, was plain insane, he
Eschewed the sort of language used by Cheney.
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
The Impermanent Revolution The Impermanent Revolution
Isaac Deutscher stands out among the early intellectual mentors of the New Left as the only one who expounded classical Marxism. On a mid-1960s "must read" authors list that in...
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Aronson
Jewtopia Jewtopia
Yiddish, a national language that never had a nation-state, may no longer have millions of speakers, but it remains contested territory nonetheless.
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman