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
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
Second-Wave Soundings Second-Wave Soundings
The women's liberation movement, as it was called in the sixties and seventies, was the largest social movement in the history of the United States--and probably in the world.
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon and Rosalyn Baxandall
Affirmative Retraction Affirmative Retraction
A century ago, as America made clear its retreat from the egalitarian gains of Reconstruction, two powerful voices set out differing agendas for how black Americans should respon...
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner
Tea Time Tea Time
Everyone knows you can't film Remembrance of Things Past, so Raúl Ruiz did it.
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
How a Caged Bird Learns to Sing How a Caged Bird Learns to Sing
This article is adapted from a lecture that was part of a series on self-censorship in the media given at New York University. The lecture series is being published this month in T...
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
‘Spies’ Under the Persian Rug ‘Spies’ Under the Persian Rug
Early in the morning on Tuesday, May 2, as I opened my apartment door to pick up the New York Times, I was struck by a large front-page picture of a man in Iranian prison unifo...
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mansour Farhang
Prince Albert in a Can Prince Albert in a Can
What's the meaning of Al Gore? Or George Bush?
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
McCullers: Canon Fodder? McCullers: Canon Fodder?
What makes an American writer? In today's narrow, backlashed literary market the chain of command is quite clear. The "greats" are Updike, Pynchon, Mailer, Bellow and Roth.
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Schulman