Scene of the Crime Scene of the Crime
Bob Dylan at Newport
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The Mayor of My Hometown The Mayor of My Hometown
It's only August, but I'll go out on a limb and congratulate the Village Voice's Keith Harris for what I feel confident will stand the test of time as the stupidest comment of ...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Beauty Tips and Politics Beauty Tips and Politics
Hot media news: Women want hard-hitting reports on issues that affect them.
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Sandler
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT: Sex, Hope and Rock and Roll.
By Ellen Willis.
Aug 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Liza Featherstone
Screening Our Politics Screening Our Politics
Like Pop-Up Video--one of the many things the movie-industry left never anticipated--ancillary factoids keep imposing themselves on Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood:...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
9/11: The Satire 9/11: The Satire
I don't know if it's some childhood image left over from Victory at Sea or from a book of pictures my uncle brought back from the service, but when I think about the war in the Pa...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb
Robinson Crusoe, Move Over Robinson Crusoe, Move Over
If Canadian writer Yann Martel were a preacher, he'd be charismatic, funny and convert all the nonbelievers. He baits his readers with serious themes and trawls them through a sea...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Charlotte Innes
Handicapping the Crippled Handicapping the Crippled
More than thirty years ago, in an essay called "Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim: Some Reflections on the Cripple as Negro," I suggested that cripples emulate the civil rights movement by f...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Leonard Kriegel
In Cold Type In Cold Type
It seems a long time ago that I stocked my pantry (pantry is a concept in Manhattan, not a reality) with two weeks' worth of emergency food (including powdered milk, an oddly c...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Roane Carey has edited two collections of writings on the Middle East: The New Intifada (Verso, 2001) and The Other Israel (The New Press, 2002).
Jul 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey