Matinee Idols Matinee Idols
Farai Chideya, Christopher Hitchens, Barney Frank, Susan Brownmiller, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt, Slavoj Zizek and Arthur Danto on their favorite screen stars.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Reelpolitics Reelpolitics
Cinematic activism is enjoying a comeback.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Alissa Quart
Will Jodie Whitewash Leni? Will Jodie Whitewash Leni?
Hitler's filmmaker is Foster's fixation.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wallace
Our Mobsters, Ourselves Our Mobsters, Ourselves
Why The Sopranos is therapeutic TV.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis
Third Annual Hollywood Issue Third Annual Hollywood Issue
THIS IS THE THIRD of what now threatens to become The Nation's annual Hollywood issue. Following in the footsteps of the catholic Mr. Soderbergh, whose Y2K output ran the gamut fr...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
While the Academy Slept While the Academy Slept
The strange career of the documentary Oscar.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
The Black-White Wealth Gap The Black-White Wealth Gap
Net worth, more than any other statistic, shows the depth of racial inequality.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Dalton Conley
The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro? The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?
New evidence of a CIA scheme to use Ernest Hemingway's Cuban farm.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / David Corn and Gus Russo
Whodunit–the Media? Whodunit–the Media?
It's easy to blame cartoons for gun-toting kids. But the truth isn't so tidy.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Maggie Cutler
Trading With the Enemy Trading With the Enemy
Multinationals, their intellectual coverings shredded, are love-bombing labor while hunting for new fig leaves.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / William Greider