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
Who Killed Emmett Till? Who Killed Emmett Till?
The summer before 14-year-old Trent Lott entered all-white Pascagoula High School in Mississippi, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till convinced his mother to let...
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Holmberg and Rebecca Segall
Our Man in Saigon Our Man in Saigon
In the new film version of The Quiet American, a photographer races into a plaza in downtown Saigon, rather puzzling jaded British reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine).
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / H. Bruce Franklin
The Rest of Love The Rest of Love
The hive is for where
the honey was.
Was findable there,
then not.
Sometimes, I think I dreamed it,
or I am saying it like a thing
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips
The Year in Pictures The Year in Pictures
Looking backward in the January chill, I feel my eyes shoot past the films of 2002 toward a movie made some thirty years ago: a picture by Martin Scorsese about violent, driven...
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Fix at Ground Zero The Fix at Ground Zero
The second year of machinations at the World Trade Center site has gotten off to a vigorous start.
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Philip Nobel
Explaining ‘The Magician’ Explaining ‘The Magician’
Thomas Mann's popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks family business. It is in decline.
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Unfinished Women Unfinished Women
Imaginary Friends, The Mercy Seat
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I first read Samuel Delany's Tales of Nevèrÿon during the high-geek days of junior high.
Jan 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim