Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’ Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’
Eben Moglen has been representing parties sued by the recording industry and is working on a book about the death of intellectual property.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen
What’s On K Street? What’s On K Street?
HBO's new political program is a vivid (and disgusting) expression of our decayed democracy.
Oct 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Judgment Day Judgment Day
The antigay bias that permeates the Republican Party can be clearly seen in Bush's judicial appointments. Among the unalloyed homophobes Bush has nominated for the federal benc...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Doug Ireland
Rhapsody in Blue Rhapsody in Blue
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams
Death and Glory Death and Glory
The premature deaths in the past year of Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer ought to be enough to make the most pious among us angry at The Man Upstairs.
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
French Connections French Connections
The setting is a one-room schoolhouse, which is momentarily unoccupied except for a pair of turtles.
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Shooting Wars Shooting Wars
In her new book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag's focus is upon theaters of war and the way in which photographers have interpreted their role in the production of ...
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter Wollen
Tokyo Story Tokyo Story
A Love Affair for the postcollege, flirting-with-Buddhism set, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is a travelogue of the emotions, concerned with the deepening relationship be...
Sep 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Bull’s Eye Bull’s Eye
This was the summer when the movies were so bad, people were reduced to complaining about a Mel Gibson film they hadn't seen.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Regarding the Pain of Others Regarding the Pain of Others
In Plato's Republic, Socrates illustrates his theory of the parts of the soul with the story of Leontius, who saw some corpses rotting outside the walls of Athens and was torn ...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto