Gene Seymour

Gene Seymour worked 18 years at Newsday as film critic and jazz columnist. He lives in Philadelphia and has written for Bookforum, CNN.com, and The Washington Post.

Notes of a Native Daughter Notes of a Native Daughter

The title does neither the book nor its author any favors.

Mar 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Poisoned Ivy Poisoned Ivy

Much as I hate to, I'm going to start by talking about the damn money. I'm only doing it because almost everyone else is. It's not just the author profiles and publishing-trad...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

We’ve Gotta Have It We’ve Gotta Have It

Black filmmakers seize the moment.

Mar 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Wild, Wild West Wild, Wild West

You may have read, in these pages and elsewhere [see Danny Goldberg, "Harvard Raps West," February 4], about the flap that Harvard University's president, Lawrence Summers, kicke...

Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

…Stinging Like a Bee …Stinging Like a Bee

Anyone with first- or even secondhand knowledge of the real-life subject must have wondered what strain of myopia possessed those producing the 1991 TV miniseries Separate bu...

Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

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