‘Random’ Destruction ‘Random’ Destruction
Once again, changes at Random House have made headlines in papers throughout the country.
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin
Letter to America Letter to America
A Palestinian's view.
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marwan Bishara
Jump at de Sun Jump at de Sun
Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in N...
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook
Death at an Early Age Death at an Early Age
In October 1968, at the height of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, New York Mayor John Lindsay got heckled off the stage at a synagogue in Brooklyn.
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael E. Staub
Among the Lotus-Eaters Among the Lotus-Eaters
In 1886 the British are fighting an imperial war on another continent with the express goal of suppressing and maintaining control of the natives. Sound familiar?
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Dr. Marc Siegel
Forced to Bowl Alone? Forced to Bowl Alone?
Being a citizen in America today feels a bit like being the student at the bottom of the class. We are continually reminded of how we are falling down on the job. Not enough of...
Jan 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Palma J. Strand
Familia Faces Familia Faces
Genealogy rules Latino literature tyrannically.
Jan 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
The Eastern Front The Eastern Front
If Elia Suleiman's face were a cartoon, then the single short, white brush stroke dabbed into his black hair would perhaps be the beginning of a thought balloon, perpetually fo...
Jan 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Dissident or Apologist? Dissident or Apologist?
The Iraqi-American writer and Brandeis professor Kanan Makiya is nowadays considered by many in the United States to be the Iraqi dissident par excellence.
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon
Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet? Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet?
Given the number of prematurely world-weary young men and women who followed the lure of easy money, cheap alcohol and even cheaper sex to the geopolitical discount bins of the...
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eliot Borenstein