The Other Japanese Occupation The Other Japanese Occupation
When Tokyo took over Manchuria, its propagandists spoke of "liberation."
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / John W. Dower
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading ...
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Bob Hope, Prisoner of War Bob Hope, Prisoner of War
War correspondents frequently suffer from what might be diagnosed as Ernie Pyle Syndrome.
Jun 12, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Francis Davis
Passport: A Manifesto Passport: A Manifesto
This is your passport I hold in my hand: a hemisphere, half red ink, half blue-- as yet untorched by terror, but polluted
Jun 12, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carol Muske-Dukes
The Critical Imagination The Critical Imagination
James Wood, the ferociously intelligent critic whose reviews appear regularly in The New Republic and the London Review of Books, has single-handedly done a great deal to impro...
Jun 12, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
The Last Mogul The Last Mogul
Lew Wasserman, who died last summer at 89, was not only the most powerful and influential man in Hollywood over the past half-century but also the most enigmatic.
Jun 12, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Schatz
Hell’s Angel Hell’s Angel
Romeo Dallaire has the name of a silent-movie star and a face to match: clear eyes, ample mustache, chin of cleft granite.
Jun 5, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Wrestling With Augie March Wrestling With Augie March
Editor's Note: With Leonard Kriegel's meditation on Saul Bellow's 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, we introduce a series of occasional essays revisiting classic works of l...
Jun 5, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Leonard Kriegel
The Believer The Believer
A reader knowing nothing of the 1990s might well come away from Sidney Blumenthal's lengthy account of The Clinton Wars with the impression that for eight years, Bill and Hilla...
Jun 5, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tom Wicker
Southern Man Southern Man
In 1900 Maurice Denis painted a large canvas titled Hommage à Cézanne, which shows the esteemed master next to one of his paintings and surrounded by a crowd of a...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto