Culture

‘The Last Uprising’ ‘The Last Uprising’

At the time of writing, Carl Bromley had just returned from a pilgrimage to Truffaut's grave in Paris.

Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley

Rescuer Down Under Rescuer Down Under

I would call Holy Smoke a drawing-room comedy if the film showed a drawing room, a comedy of manners if its characters had any.

Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Benjamin & the City of Light Benjamin & the City of Light

In September 1940, with a weak heart and even frailer nerves, Walter Benjamin carried on an old smugglers' path in the French Pyrenean foothills a big black briefcase stuffed wit...

Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield

Round the World in 80 Ways Round the World in 80 Ways

John Ghazvinian is completing a PhD at Oxford University on the early history of tourism.

Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Ghazvinian

Of Scientists and Spies Of Scientists and Spies

After thirty years spent building the Federation of American Scientists into one of the country's most valuable and venerable institutional voices for peace, democracy and real s...

Jan 13, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

Saying It Ain’t So on Joe Saying It Ain’t So on Joe

The cold war has been over for a decade but it lingers on the American home front.

Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler

Y2K: The Prequel Y2K: The Prequel

Our New Year's number is a mother goose with three eggs tucked behind. It could be a sign of cryptic rhymes and unhatched possibilities--or maybe of silliness, tailed by a lot of...

Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Lord High Executioners Lord High Executioners

He looks like a pear that's going bad. Tall, corpulent and much the worse for gravity, W.S.

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Was Communism Reformable? Was Communism Reformable?

Never in history until the Soviet Union collapsed eight years ago had a great empire gone through such cataclysmic changes and accepted such staggering territorial losses without...

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert V. Daniels

What Price, Palestine? What Price, Palestine?

The plan to take Israeli athletes hostage during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was conceived at a cafe on the Piazza della Rotonda in Rome, in the shadow of the Pantheon and the ...

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Young

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