Society of the Spectacle Society of the Spectacle
The slogans scrawled across the walls of Paris in May 1968 suggest possibilities most of us have forgotten or that were long ago deemed preposterous. "Never work!" said one sloga...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Smith
Politically Incorrect Politically Incorrect
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Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002 Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002
The death on January 23 of the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu came as the American chattering classes were busy checking the math in Richard Posner's Public I...
Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Filipineza Filipineza
In the modern Greek dictionary, the word "Filipineza" means "maid." If I became the brown woman mistaken for a shadow, please tell your people I'm a tree. Or its curli...
Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Bino A. Realuyo
License to Ink License to Ink
The subtitle sounds bad, but keep in mind that Thorstein Veblen considered subtitling his book on academics "A Study in Total Depravity." The really bad news concerns the title: ...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn ‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn
The first time that Agha Shahid Ali, the great Kashmiri poet, spoke to me about his approaching death was in April of last year. The conversation began routinely. I had telephone...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh
Lines Beyond the Nakba Lines Beyond the Nakba
Mahmoud Darwish burst on the Arab poetic scene in the mid-1960s with the publication in Beirut of poems written while he was living in Haifa, Israel, and working as a translator ...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Taline Voskeritchian
Three Poems Three Poems
* Zero built a nest In my navel. Incurable Longing. Blood too-- From violent actions It's a nest belonging to one But zero uses it And its pleasure is its ow...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Fanny Howe