Passages to India Passages to India
In the early 1920s, E.M.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
Decline of the West Decline of the West
"I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided," said Sam Shepard, explaining his motivation for writing True West. "It's a real thing, double nature.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
He Took a Village He Took a Village
In the role of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell--source and subject alike of Joe Gould's Secret--Stanley Tucci adopts the hesitant drawl of a displaced Southern aristocrat, who ...
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The New U The New U
While the public has been napping, the American university has been busily reinventing itself.
Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel
Tilman Riemenschneider
Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Legionnaire’s Disease Legionnaire’s Disease
If you squint long enough at Claire Denis's amazing Beau Travail--you'll have to squint, given the African sunlight--you will make out the faint contour of a story.
Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The ‘Casanova of Causes’ The ‘Casanova of Causes’
To her biographer, Simone de Beauvoir confided a less than rhapsodic one-night stand, in 1946, with the Hungarian malcontent Arthur Koestler: "One night I got so drunk I let him ...
Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Pigeons Home to Roost Pigeons Home to Roost
Star vehicle?
Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Honor the Blacklistees Honor the Blacklistees
After last year's brouhaha surrounding the presentation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Elia Kazan, one member of the academ...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
American Beauty or American Pie? American Beauty or American Pie?
*Last year, I was the guest editor of The Nation's first issue devoted exclusively to Hollywood and politics.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind