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
Sense and Sexibility Sense and Sexibility
In 1967 the world-renowned if somewhat Dickensianly named sexologist John Money was offered a case he couldn't refuse.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen
Rethinking the Second Wave Rethinking the Second Wave
A few years ago, an intellectual historian uncovered the story of Betty Friedan's formative years as a Popular Front journalist and activist in the 1940s.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Nancy MacLean
Haunted Hermitage Haunted Hermitage
While going about their business, great artists often make monkeys of the people who write about them.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Cold Type In Cold Type
In this season's Granta, Fintan O'Toole, an Irish writer, speculates that the enduring appeal of the British monarch is that she makes the British crowd feel good about itself,...
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages
Legendary New York Times obit writer Alden Whitman once observed, "Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more tha...
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel
Keeping the Faith Keeping the Faith
That the abused child will defend its parent is no arcane phenomenon of child psychology--hell, we've seen it on Law and Order.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
Buffoonery of the Mundane Buffoonery of the Mundane
"Felisberto Hernández is a writer like no other," Italo Calvino announced once, "like no European, nor any Latin American.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans