Ellison Unbound Ellison Unbound
"I remind myself that much of television is now comic strip," Ralph Ellison told TV Guide in 1988. It is not surprising that the author of Invisible Man would be uncomfortable wi...
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
"Did you hear the one about the theft of the American presidency?" teases The Nation's Washington correspondent, John Nichols, at the start of his entertaining recounting of the 2...
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
From Garvey to Jackson From Garvey to Jackson
THE MARCUS GARVEY AND UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION PAPERS.
Edited by Robert A . Hill. University of California Press.
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Clayborne Carson
Our Collective Bargain Our Collective Bargain
The fortunes of American unions have taken a turn for the worse. Thanks to terrorism and recession, union members are reeling from a series of economic and political setbacks. Ne...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
Yuri Gagarin Rides Again Yuri Gagarin Rides Again
London Despite an initial drop in attendance in the uncertain aftermath of September 11, and the changing of the guard at three major institutions, the London theater scen...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
Hoisting the Black Flag Hoisting the Black Flag
As the World Economic Forum met in New York City recently, the American media were much more concerned with what protesters were doing in the streets than with what they were say...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Karen Rosenberg
Society of the Spectacle Society of the Spectacle
The slogans scrawled across the walls of Paris in May 1968 suggest possibilities most of us have forgotten or that were long ago deemed preposterous. "Never work!" said one sloga...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Smith
Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002 Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002
The death on January 23 of the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu came as the American chattering classes were busy checking the math in Richard Posner's Public I...
Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt