Books & the Arts

Rawls and Us Rawls and Us

The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame an...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Who Will Tell the People? Who Will Tell the People?

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg's story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a "dedicated cold warrior" who supported A...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine

Diary of the Bridget Joneses Diary of the Bridget Joneses

If single women have been told once, they've been told a thousand times: Don't think you're ever too successful or too young to have your ovaries shrivel up and die. Use 'em or...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ashley Nelson

Is It Still Rock & Roll to You? Is It Still Rock & Roll to You?

A lot of nonsense has been written about the choreographer Twyla Tharp and her hit Broadway show, Movin' Out, since it opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on October 24.

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty

Adeptations Adeptations

Even without the aid of Smell-o-Vision, Charlie Kaufman's bedroom comes across as dank.

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

Secret societies are manna for conspiracy theorists, and few are more secret or more conspiracy-nourishing than Yale's Skull and Bones.

Dec 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood

‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’ ‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’

In the rabbi's parable a lame one climbs Onto a blind one's shoulders and together They take the fruit of the garden of the Lord.

Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Pinsky

Rethinking the Movement Rethinking the Movement

As any casual observer of mega-bookstore shelves knows, the history of the modern civil rights movement is a well-studied field.

Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Arnesen

Blowin’ in a New Wind Blowin’ in a New Wind

Ani DiFranco

Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward

Here where everyone forgets everything, including where they are or what they are fighting to remember,

Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hirsch

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