Prairie Home Companion Prairie Home Companion
When the University of Nebraska Press sent my review copy of the Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees with a note asking that I please accept the book with the compliments of ...
Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kathy Rooney
The Culture Blockade The Culture Blockade
The Bush Administration seems to be gunning to make history as the first great unilateralist government of the twenty-first century.
Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter
Racism: Coded as Culture? Racism: Coded as Culture?
This book makes a good case for racism--the word, not the ideology. What necessitated a defense?
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
The Laboratories of Democracy The Laboratories of Democracy
Nothing is more galling to scientists than outsiders questioning their research priorities.
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Kimmelman
License to Kill License to Kill
The closest thing you get to a dull moment in Michael Moore's latest picture, Bowling for Columbine, is an interview with Marilyn Manson.
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Raceball in Boston Raceball in Boston
Any fan who over the years has attended a baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park notices how few African-Americans are in the stands.
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Louis P. Masur
Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation
Although he does not record CDs, Robin Kelley may well be the hippest intellectual in the land. There is plenty of substance to ground the style.
Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jason Sokol
Pemberly Pemberly
The park was very large. We drove
for some time through a beautiful wood
until the wood ceased, and the house came into view.
Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Wetzsteon
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
After I saw In the Bedroom, Todd Field's moving film based on Andre Dubus's short story "Killings," I was delighted when a slim volume of Dubus's stories arrived here at The Nati...
Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey