Stargazer Stargazer
Andy Warhol's eye for significant banality transformed the familiar into art. Ric Burns's new American Masters documentary traces the roots of Warhol's smirking genius.
Sep 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Bush’s Sitcom Nominee Bush’s Sitcom Nominee
Warren Bell honed his reputation writing sitcoms and lobbing politically incorrect bombs for National Review Online. Now he's Bush's nominee for the Corporation for Public Broadcas...
Sep 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Celia Viggo Wexler
ABC 9/11 Docudrama’s Right-Wing Roots ABC 9/11 Docudrama’s Right-Wing Roots
How conservative zealot David Horowitz produced and promoted ABC's flawed docudrama, The Path to 9/11.
Sep 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Max Blumenthal
Big in Japan Big in Japan
Reviews of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Hollywoodland and This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Unsentimental Education Unsentimental Education
A new memoir by Robert Hughes reveals the idiosyncratic sensibility of a celebrated art critic.
Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens
Londonistan Calling Londonistan Calling
Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture, heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial neighborhoods.
Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gary Younge
Ottoman Ghosts Ottoman Ghosts
Caroline Finkel's new book, Osman's Dream, explores the rise and calamitous fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Too Late for Empire Too Late for Empire
Thirty years after Watergate, we again face a constitutional crisis at home and a misconceived war abroad. The United States will remain a helpless giant until we finally learn tha...
Sep 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Tavis Smiley’s Covenant Tavis Smiley’s Covenant
Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Ma...
Sep 1, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander
Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation
Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has lost one of its most humane literary figures.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami