Smart and Smarter Smart and Smarter
In Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey bullies a series of small children, gets into senseless fights (on the grounds that "he started it") and reverts hungrily to breast-feeding.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Rock & Roll Fantasies Rock & Roll Fantasies
It is a depressing rule for students of American political discourse that the more one happens to know about a given subject, the more amazing one finds the brazen ignorance that...
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The New World Order (They Mean It) The New World Order (They Mean It)
The United States never held a large number of direct colonies, a fact that has prompted many political leaders to declare it the great exception to colonialism.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
George Smiley, Move Over George Smiley, Move Over
"This is a story about a spy," writes Millicent Dillon in Harry Gold: A Novel.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elsa Dixler
MoMA: What’s in a Name? MoMA: What’s in a Name?
"Making Choices" at MoMA
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Devil and Mr. Hearst The Devil and Mr. Hearst
William Randolph Hearst is one of those people we all know was very, very famous but are never quite sure why, or what we are to think of him.
Jun 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dana Frank
The Devil in Mr. Marx The Devil in Mr. Marx
At a quarter to 3 in the afternoon on March 14, 1883, one of the world's brainiest men, Karl Marx, ceased to think. He passed away peacefully in his favorite armchair.
Jun 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield
African Heart, No Darkness African Heart, No Darkness
A revealing question: Why has V.S. Naipaul come to be much better known in the West than the great African writer Chinua Achebe?
Jun 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / James North
Columbo This Isn’t Columbo This Isn’t
The first thing I need to explain about Bruno Dumont's Humanité shouldn't have to be said at all. It's that the film is not a whodunit.
Jun 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Literature From Below A Literature From Below
The role of the public intellectual--and the moral onus, assuming that one exists--seems ever to thread the Scylla of celebrity and the Charybdis of marginality.
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Günter Grass