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
Swing Time for Hitler Swing Time for Hitler
It is of some small comfort that totalitarian regimes are never quite as total as either their leaders or subsequent historians might imagine.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
Urban Legend Urban Legend
Here's our man, starring in a movie about himself.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Untimely Meditations Untimely Meditations
Beethoven has been particularly fortunate in his recent critics and biographers.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Edward W. Said
Space Is the Place Space Is the Place
I recently returned to dingy England after a road trip in America, where, as usual, I failed to take any photographs.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Geoff Dyer
Creative Destruction Creative Destruction
Edward Burtynsky's photographs are large, colorful and mostly ravishing, despite their subjects.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit