Books & the Arts

Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child

Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain attracted considerable attention some years back; it was widely read as a fictionalized version of literary critic Anatole Broyard's life.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams

Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’ Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’

Eben Moglen has been representing parties sued by the recording industry and is working on a book about the death of intellectual property.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen

What’s On K Street? What’s On K Street?

HBO's new political program is a vivid (and disgusting) expression of our decayed democracy.

Oct 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

Judgment Day Judgment Day

The antigay bias that permeates the Republican Party can be clearly seen in Bush's judicial appointments. Among the unalloyed homophobes Bush has nominated for the federal benc...

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Doug Ireland

Rhapsody in Blue Rhapsody in Blue

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams

Our Victorian Ancestors Our Victorian Ancestors

"You are the heirs of one of the country's great traditions, the Progressive movement that started late in the nineteenth century and remade the American experience piece by pi...

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin

Justice Talking Justice Talking

In his memoir, Taking Liberties, Aryeh Neier emerges, almost despite himself, as a fascinating man.

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Scott L. Malcomson

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

In 1990, The Nation ran a dispatch from Portland, Oregon, by editorial board member Elinor Langer titled "The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today." The piece, which took up almost...

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Emily Biuso

London Kills Me London Kills Me

Monica Ali was recently named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists--an A-list of red-hot literary youth writing some of the most promising books on the contemporary ...

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Diana Abu-Jaber

Death and Glory Death and Glory

The premature deaths in the past year of Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer ought to be enough to make the most pious among us angry at The Man Upstairs.

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

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