Fight Club Fight Club

Writing may be fighting, as Ishmael Reed famously opined, but most writers know the difference. There are, of course, some who blur the line.

May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz

She’s So Heavy She’s So Heavy

In 1981 Carolyn Forché published a slim collection of verse, her second, titled The Country Between Us.

May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Meghan O’Rourke

Sex and the City Sex and the City

From the mid to the late 1920s, the German painter Christian Schad produced a group of paintings like little else in modern art.

May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Magnificent Obsessions Magnificent Obsessions

This week, all true movie lovers will rush to see a violent and fantastic special-effects thriller, in which a character endowed with uncanny powers rips through the veil of il...

May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Misuses of Allegory The Misuses of Allegory

Is José Saramago an anti-Semite?

May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

Dare Call It Treason Dare Call It Treason

Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.

May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

The Revolution Within The Revolution Within

In the current national climate, the notion that Washington might learn from the experience of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev would strike most as...

May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert D. English

Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society

It is agonizingly difficult to write about one's hometown as it drowns in flames and suffocates with smoke.

May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon

McCarthy’s Secret Show McCarthy’s Secret Show

Victor Navasky's Naming Names (Hill & Wang) was recently reissued in paperback with a new afterword.

May 8, 2003 / Victor Navasky

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.