Culture

The Avenging Angel The Avenging Angel

For abolitionist John Brown, equality was not a theoretical stance but a daily practice.

May 4, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman

The Lincoln Museum and Springfield’s Shame The Lincoln Museum and Springfield’s Shame

Visiting the Lincoln Museum and exposing a dark chapter in the town's history.

Apr 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Adrian Brune

Love’s Body Love’s Body

Kazuo Ishiguro is a writer renowned for his capacity to create beautifully controlled surfaces and to beautifully evoke the roiling emotions beneath them.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Claire Messud

Compromising Positions Compromising Positions

Your movie reviewer has been reading Colin MacCabe's excellent book on Jean-Luc Godard and pondering its discussion of France after World War II.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Crouching Tiger Crouching Tiger

Being Stanley Crouch is about as bruising a vocation as there is in what passes for--or remains of--polite literary society.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

The Other 1905 Revolution The Other 1905 Revolution

Albert Einstein's banner year.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Foer

At a newsstand, a vendor reads an issue of Sports Illustrated magazine as he waits for customers, New York, New York, August 1954.

Protest and Survive Protest and Survive

Thoughts on the critical role of the journal of dissent in America.

Apr 28, 2005 / Feature / Victor Navasky

Al Gore Gets Down Al Gore Gets Down

Al Gore's Current TV debuts today. But will his new network transform the media?

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman

Pete Seeger: Ain’t No One Like Him Pete Seeger: Ain’t No One Like Him

As part of a nationwide festival of tributes to Pete Seeger in 2005, Studs Terkel offered this essay on the life and times of an American balladeer.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Studs Terkel

Bellow’s Lonely Planet Bellow’s Lonely Planet

The world Saul Bellow made.

Apr 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel

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