Culture

Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners

The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.

May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

Kurdish Delight Kurdish Delight

International cinema has an irresistible new pair of reprobates: middle-aged brothers who can do no right in their lives and no wrong before the camera.

May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame

Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame

To listen to her voice was to beĀ hijacked by its power.

May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz

Throes of Creation

The Intuitionist The Intuitionist

Writers write by trying to find out what it is they're writing.

May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / E.L. Doctorow

The Revell Variations The Revell Variations

How much, in just twenty years, Donald Revell has changed! From the Abandoned Cities (1983), his debut volume, included a villanelle, a sestina, rhymed sonnets and meditative t...

Apr 24, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt

Minority Report Minority Report

Ever since Clark Kent first donned a pair of oversized glasses and, somewhat improbably, hid his Superman persona from Lois Lane, questions of identity have been a staple of th...

Apr 24, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Alan Jenkins

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

"The Moviegoer," by Walker Percy

Apr 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Swetala

Reel Men Reel Men

The film begins with a federal marshal intoning "This is a very difficult time for our country" and ends with the singing of the national anthem, performed before Rudy Giuliani...

Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Anatomy Lesson The Anatomy Lesson

Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle

Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Among the Gilded Paupers Among the Gilded Paupers

The quest for El Dorado, the mythic city of gold, is at the heart of the tumultuous history of the Americas.

Apr 10, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Anderson Tepper

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