Visiting the Folks Visiting the Folks
I was born by a Kerouac stream under Eisenhower skies --John Gorka The New Folk Movement is now about twenty years old, an...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The Drowned and the Unsaved The Drowned and the Unsaved
He jumped, of course. But also he was pushed. And when Primo Levi, on "a sudden violent impulse," threw himself down three flights of stairwell in the Art Nouveau apartment hou...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
"Ishall never be able to forget," writes Christopher Hitchens of the poems of the slain Wilfred Owen, "the way in which these verses utterly turned over all the furniture of my mi...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Auschwitz: The Counterlife Auschwitz: The Counterlife
There is a brief but arresting passage in Primo Levi's 1947 classic memoir Survival in Auschwitz (originally titled If This Is a Man) about a French Jewish inmate he identifies...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Lawrence N. Powell
Gleaners Over Gladiators Gleaners Over Gladiators
During the false calm that descends between the announcement of Oscar nominations and the bad-TV night of their awards, the smug nominees are routinely re-released to a presumably...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
Hymn Hymn
Sounds that twisted around the room like smoke, bludgeoning, blossoming, where I did not want to find them, but I find them over and over. Father, bless your hair. Bless your hamm...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Yerra Sugarman
Third Annual Hollywood Issue Third Annual Hollywood Issue
THIS IS THE THIRD of what now threatens to become The Nation's annual Hollywood issue. Following in the footsteps of the catholic Mr. Soderbergh, whose Y2K output ran the gamut fr...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
While the Academy Slept While the Academy Slept
The strange career of the documentary Oscar.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Hollywood’s Big Sleep Hollywood’s Big Sleep
With negotiations between the Writers Guild and some of Hollywood's major film studios and TV networks at an impasse as the May 1 deadline nears, putting the panic of a strike in...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Raymond Chandler
Residual Anger Residual Anger
Hollywood unions on the brink.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper