Brief Encounter Brief Encounter
Like many intelligent women of advanced political beliefs, Celine detests the ideology of the soulmate.
Jul 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Body and Soul Body and Soul
In the 1960s, the New York Jewish Museum became the unlikely leading venue for contemporary avant-garde art in America.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Requiem for a Dream Requiem for a Dream
In a cluster of beach bungalows in Ghana in December 2000, my wife and I encountered the Peace Corps dream.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass
The Rootless Cosmopolitan The Rootless Cosmopolitan
This essay appears as the foreword to Edward Said's From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map, which will be published in August by Pantheon.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Tony Judt
Moore 1, Media 0 Moore 1, Media 0
I had a swell time at Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's documentary about George Bush's dubious progress from Florida to Iraq.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
True Patriotism True Patriotism
The Fourth of July is traditionally a time for reading the Declaration of Independence and listening to patriotic speeches.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
It's the first three chapters of Yuri Olesha's Envy that really bite, that really get across the impotent sting of the emotion.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Jahr
Bob and Ray Bob and Ray
After Ronald Reagan's death, Ray Charles's version of "Amazing Grace," one of Reagan's favorite songs, kept popping up on radio and TV. Why not?
Jun 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The Anti-Warrior The Anti-Warrior
Christianity in this country has become almost synonymous with right-wing fanaticism, conservative politics and--courtesy of Mel Gibson--a brutally sadistic version of religious ...
Jun 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Dan Wakefield
The Searcher The Searcher
In 1965, nearly forty years before the publication of Where I Was From, her most recent and most sustained meditation on her native state of California, Joan Didion wrote “John Way...
Jun 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Hilton Als