Haunted Hermitage Haunted Hermitage
While going about their business, great artists often make monkeys of the people who write about them.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Rethinking the Second Wave Rethinking the Second Wave
A few years ago, an intellectual historian uncovered the story of Betty Friedan's formative years as a Popular Front journalist and activist in the 1940s.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Nancy MacLean
Sense and Sexibility Sense and Sexibility
In 1967 the world-renowned if somewhat Dickensianly named sexologist John Money was offered a case he couldn't refuse.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen
Other Voices Other Voices
KGB, CIA, JFK, FYI... Santa Monica, Calif.; Olivebridge, NY
Sep 23, 2002 / Our Readers
Schröder Beats Bush Schröder Beats Bush
The first 2002 election campaign in which George W. Bush's desire to attack Iraq became a major issue did not involve Republicans and Democrats. It was not even held in the United...
Sep 23, 2002 / John Nichols
Bush Stonewalls on Pre-9/ll Knowledge Bush Stonewalls on Pre-9/ll Knowledge
The scene: a hut somewhere near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Al Qaeda Terrorist Number One: I have good news to report. Al Qaeda Ter...
Sep 20, 2002 / David Corn
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
THE WHITE APPLES. By Jonathan Carroll. Oxford. 384 pp pp. $$24.95.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Perception of Doors Perception of Doors
Tom Waits and others cheer The Doors' drummer, John Densmore, for not selling out to the corporations.
Sep 19, 2002 / Our Readers
High Noon: The Rewrite High Noon: The Rewrite
On September 17, PBS aired Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents. On the surface, this documentary is a posthumous homage to a worthy blacklisted screenwriter.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ed Rampell
Buffoonery of the Mundane Buffoonery of the Mundane
"Felisberto Hernández is a writer like no other," Italo Calvino announced once, "like no European, nor any Latin American.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans