Miles Davis Miles Davis
Most of what we know about the life of Miles Davis is either anecdotal or a matter of official record, and thus not absolutely reliable; but by all accounts, most pertinently h...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lucius Shepard
The Girls of Summer The Girls of Summer
This Independence Day, the symbolic struggle being waged on thousands of screens across the Empire pits Reese Witherspoon against Arnold Schwarzenegger, gooey-sweet girl agains...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie
When Bob Dylan took the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, all leather and Ray-Bans and Beatle boots, and declared emphatically and (heaven forbid) electrically that he w...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Steve Earle
Our Man in Jazz Our Man in Jazz
Not many people can say they changed the world and make it stick. In Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, George Wein does.
Jun 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Candid Camera Candid Camera
I have often been asked the difference between movie reviews and film criticism; and after much thought, I've decided the answer is about one week.
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Playing the Field Playing the Field
"In society the homosexual's life must be discreetly concealed. As material for drama, that life must be even more intensely concealed.
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
Bob Hope, Prisoner of War Bob Hope, Prisoner of War
War correspondents frequently suffer from what might be diagnosed as Ernie Pyle Syndrome.
Jun 12, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Francis Davis
The Last Mogul The Last Mogul
Lew Wasserman, who died last summer at 89, was not only the most powerful and influential man in Hollywood over the past half-century but also the most enigmatic.
Jun 12, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Schatz
Hell’s Angel Hell’s Angel
Romeo Dallaire has the name of a silent-movie star and a face to match: clear eyes, ample mustache, chin of cleft granite.
Jun 5, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Southern Man Southern Man
In 1900 Maurice Denis painted a large canvas titled Hommage à Cézanne, which shows the esteemed master next to one of his paintings and surrounded by a crowd of a...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto