Music for Chameleons Music for Chameleons
When they came for Newton Arvin, as he had always known they someday would--the sex cops, the truth squad, the Cossacks, fathers and philistines--he spilled his beings. In the cro...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Gender Unbender Gender Unbender
Pierre Bourdieu's newsworthiness has become news. The profile of him in the New York Times deals more with how bright his star is than with its substance, and quite a bit of the a...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
A.I. at Universal U A.I. at Universal U
Thinks..., David Lodge's new novel about cognitive science, university politics and marital infidelity, shows once again the author's knack for making intellectual concepts user-f...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David L. Sweet
Eminem: Grammy’s Homecoming Queen? Eminem: Grammy’s Homecoming Queen?
So if you managed to endure CBS's three-plus hours of Grammy cov erage, if you survived the sparsely attended protests from GLAAD and NOW, host Jon Stewart's lame commentary, the ...
Jul 9, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
Drawing for Projection Drawing for Projection
In a famous sequence of photographs, Henri Matisse documented, over the course of six months in 1935, twenty-two states of his evolving Large Reclining Nude. On impulse, I recentl...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
A Fellow Traveling A Fellow Traveling
Ron Radosh seems an easy target, so easy that a toy pistol (or automatic writing) should be weaponry enough--and no need to bother Nation readers, keen folks that we are, with a d...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman
Cold War Ghosts Cold War Ghosts
When the New York Times Op-Ed page called and asked whether I thought the death of Gus Hall, the perennial US Communist Party candidate for President who served time for "conspir...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
The Limeys The Limeys
Franky Four Fingers. Bullet Tooth Tony. Boris the Blade. Barry the Baptist. Porno king Hatchet Harry, who coshes his victims with a fifteen-inch black rubber cock. These are just ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Pentagon Papers Chase Pentagon Papers Chase
"The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg." What a marvelous subject! Does any other person's life express more intensely the contradictions of American experience during the past fi...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / H. Bruce Franklin
Stopping at a Red Light Stopping at a Red Light
Nancy Chan is a postfeminist icon of sorts. The ultimate lady entrepreneur, Chan--the title character of the popular serial Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, catalogued ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leah Platt