‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’ ‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’
In the rabbi's parable a lame one climbs
Onto a blind one's shoulders and together
They take the fruit of the garden of the Lord.
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Pinsky
Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward
Here where everyone forgets everything,
including where they are
or what they are fighting to remember,
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hirsch
The Call of the Junco Bird The Call of the Junco Bird
An English woman I've never met
calls to read me her new poem
about the little Texas junco bird
whose cry sounded to the early settlers
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hirsch
The Humanitarian Temptation The Humanitarian Temptation
In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to the Millennium Summit of the UN: "If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on s...
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
My Guitar Gently Weeps My Guitar Gently Weeps
"I was in a highly unshaved and tatty state," John Lennon said of his 1966 meeting with a certain conceptual artist, then mounting her first show at London's Indica Gallery.
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alex Abramovich
Intelligentsia at Play Intelligentsia at Play
Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
Almodóvar’s World Almodóvar’s World
November has been melodrama month at the movies. First Todd Haynes brought us Far From Heaven, which he ought to have called Imitation of Imitation.
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Bride & the Bottle Rack The Bride & the Bottle Rack
The idea of craft is an unanticipated product of the Industrial Revolution.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Renoir All Over Again Renoir All Over Again
Like a kid at an ice-cream counter, urging his friends to try the chocolate--like a writer of travel guides, warning tourists not to miss the Eiffel Tower--I come before you to p...
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Sex of One’s Own A Sex of One’s Own
Nature versus nurture was always too simple a formulation. Now, we ask: Is it chance, choice, family, culture, hormones or genes that determine who we are and whom we love?
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein