The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’ The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’
Errol Morris: After you left the Johnson Administration, why didn't you speak out against the Vietnam War?
Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Ears Wide Open Ears Wide Open
It's a cliché to say that an artist draws his power from his contradictions, but the lives of the great composers provide easy grist for the mill.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Platt
Art Therapy Art Therapy
While filming in Western Australia in May 1999, the critic Robert Hughes survived--barely--a head-on collision with another car.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
A Documentary Coup A Documentary Coup
The lights go down in the courtroom, a 16-millimeter projector shoots out its beam, and into the trial blazes evidence of an unprecedented nature: not a report of criminal even...
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Diaghilev in Perm Diaghilev in Perm
Few Westerners have ever heard of Perm. A former czarist administrative center, rustbelt Soviet city and gateway to the gulag, Perm was long off-limits to foreigners.
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Garafola
Oy Gay! Oy Gay!
Without baring flesh, exchanging fluids or even shedding blood, Will & Grace has become the craftiest, if not the most radical, show in the history of network television--t...
Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kera Bolonik
Willie Nelson at 70 Willie Nelson at 70
On April 30, Willie Nelson turned 70, celebrating with the release of his latest greatest-hits collection.
Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The Avengers The Avengers
Ghosts are notorious for getting stuck in time. Having lost track of the ongoing world, they will revisit certain hours as obsessively as they haunt a fatal spot.
Oct 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Love Streams Love Streams
Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, which opened this year's New York Film Festival on a somber but resonant note, is perhaps the finest western ever to be set in South Boston.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child
Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain attracted considerable attention some years back; it was widely read as a fictionalized version of literary critic Anatole Broyard's life.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams