Books & the Arts

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

The Call of the Junco Bird The Call of the Junco Bird

An English woman I've never met calls to read me her new poem about the little Texas junco bird whose cry sounded to the early settlers

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

In Cold Type In Cold Type

The current Salmagundi (Summer-Fall 2002) has a section on what it calls "Femicons" (the category includes articles on Emma Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Willa Cath...

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

The Humanitarian Temptation The Humanitarian Temptation

In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to the Millennium Summit of the UN: "If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on s...

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams

My Guitar Gently Weeps My Guitar Gently Weeps

"I was in a highly unshaved and tatty state," John Lennon said of his 1966 meeting with a certain conceptual artist, then mounting her first show at London's Indica Gallery.

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alex Abramovich

Intelligentsia at Play Intelligentsia at Play

Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora

Almodóvar’s World Almodóvar’s World

November has been melodrama month at the movies. First Todd Haynes brought us Far From Heaven, which he ought to have called Imitation of Imitation.

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Bride & the Bottle Rack The Bride & the Bottle Rack

The idea of craft is an unanticipated product of the Industrial Revolution.

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Back in the USSR Back in the USSR

The study of the Soviet Union in the United States, as distinguished from random journalism, memoirs and polemics, began on the right foot.

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg

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