Arts and Entertainment

Nixon’s Broadway Revival Nixon’s Broadway Revival

Peter Morgan's new play is highly entertaining; Frank Langella's portrait of Nixon is brutally amusing; yet the play is historically inaccurate.

Jun 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Drew

Michael Moore’s Sicko Michael Moore’s Sicko

Michael Moore's healtcare documentary is less partisan, less outrageous--but more real--than anything he's done before.

Jun 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Chris Hayes

Anatomy of a Murder Anatomy of a Murder

Reviews of A Mighty Heart, Sicko, Czech Dream and Unborn in the USA.

Jun 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Company Man Company Man

Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein is a case study of the relationship between art and power.

Jun 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Garafola

The Sopranos’ Last Song The Sopranos’ Last Song

With an ominous sense of foreboding, Tony Soprano takes his last drive down the Jersey Turnpike, after seven seasons and 86 bloody, sexy, curse-ridden episodes.

Jun 7, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Max Fraser

Good News From Romania? Good News From Romania?

12:08 East of Bucharest is a hilariously bleak film set on the sixteenth anniversary of Romania's revolution.

Jun 7, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Farewell, Tony and Carm Farewell, Tony and Carm

As we begin our final hour with Tony Soprano and his two families, it's hard not to feel a familiar sense of loss.

Jun 7, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Max Fraser

Our Future Is In Your Hands Our Future Is In Your Hands

A cultural icon advises Gettysburg College graduates that social disengagement puts at risk everything unique and idealistic about our way of life.

Jun 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Harold Prince

Words in a Time of War Words in a Time of War

A journalist speaks to UC Berkeley graduates about how the Bush Administration uses and abuses language to manipulate public opinion and distort reality.

May 31, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Mark Danner

Breaking and Entering Breaking and Entering

Gordon Matta-Clark's art displays how empty spaces illuminate the structures they are housed in.

May 31, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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