Books & the Arts

Diversity and Its Malcontents Diversity and Its Malcontents

David L. Kirp has chronicled the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, history in Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton).

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Bloomsburied in China Bloomsburied in China

A divide exists between Chinese literature and movies written, produced, read or viewed in the West, and those written and produced in mainlaind China.

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia Laurence

To the Unfinished To the Unfinished

Clear eminence without whom I would be nothing oh great provision never seen barely acknowledged even wished away

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

The Tragedy of William O. Douglas The Tragedy of William O. Douglas

William O. Douglas was a judicial record-setter.

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David J. Garrow

A Stone Unturned A Stone Unturned

Someone once described Graham Greene as the novelist of decolonizing Britain.

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith

Respectfully Yours Respectfully Yours

Richard Sennett is best known in the United States for his 1972 book (written with Jonathan Cobb), The Hidden Injuries of Class. That study of white working-class men, how they...

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon

Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes

While Michael Moore was leaving the stage of the Kodak Theater during the seventy-fifth annual Academy Awards ceremony, after calling George W.

Mar 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

There's no better antidote to orange alerts and duct-tape dictums than good fiction, and if the terrorists occupying the White House have shot your attention span, try a book of ...

Mar 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Judith Long

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy An American Tragedy

The tragedy of America in the post-cold war era is that we have proved unequal to the responsibility that our own power placed upon us.

Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Germline Warfare Germline Warfare

A most remarkable event occurred in the weeks preceding the June 2000 announcement of the completion of the first draft of the human genome DNA code: One of the leaders of the ...

Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ralph Brave

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