May Fools May Fools
Bernardo Bertolucci has long fed off a cinephilia he appears to despise.
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Exile and the Kingdom Exile and the Kingdom
The world of letters lost one of its most eloquent voices on January 24, when the Saudi novelist Abdelrahman Munif died in his Damascus exile after a protracted illness.
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Tariq Ali
Killing Time Killing Time
From its unification in 1871 until its comprehensive defeat in 1945, Germany was the most bellicose and nationalistic of modern countries.
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel
Company Man Company Man
The name Shakespeare in Britain is rather like the names Ford, Disney and Rockefeller in the United States. He is less an individual than an institution, less an artist than an a...
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
Bush Family Values Bush Family Values
It's hard to know which is more interesting: the latest book by Kevin Phillips or Phillips himself.
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Drew
A Faithful Servant A Faithful Servant
Most Americans take their system of government for granted, as if Moses himself had delivered the Constitution engraved on marble tablets.
Feb 5, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
A Tragedy of Errors A Tragedy of Errors
About a decade ago, I invented a game with a colleague of mine who, like me, had once worked for Irving Kristol. We called it neoconservative bingo.
Feb 5, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Lind
McNamara: The Sequel McNamara: The Sequel
Apparently to McNamara's mortification, Errol Morris, whose film The Fog of War I discussed in my last column here, passes over his subject's thirteen-year stint running the Worl...
Feb 5, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
For a man ostensibly telling us what narcissism means to him, Tony Hoagland sure lets his friends do a lot of the talking. But maybe that's the point. In other people, he sees hi...
Jan 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Megan Marz
Our Man in Chile Our Man in Chile
When Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a bloody coup on September 11, 1973, the Nixon Administration declared its support for the "preservation of Chilea...
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Nina Englander