Books & the Arts

The Treason of the Clerics The Treason of the Clerics

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution details the story of Foucault's induction into journalism as a political correspondent in Iran.

Jul 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Rée

Apple’s America Apple’s America

In high school I suffered from a case of unrequited admiration; a favorite teacher barely knew my name.

Jul 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Degen

Alien Nation Alien Nation

Reviews of War of the Worlds, Dark Water and Land of the Dead

Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Willing Executioners Willing Executioners

Machete Season is an attempt to trace what went on in the minds of the Hutus who helped exterminate their Tutsi fellow citizens in Rwanda.

Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Fatin Abbas

As I Lay Reading As I Lay Reading

William Faulkner makes Oprah's Book Club this summer.

Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / J.M. Tyree

No Exit Strategy No Exit Strategy

Two new books examine what went wrong in the planning and conduct of the war in Iraq.

Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff

Shoot the Piano Player Shoot the Piano Player

Reviews of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Me and You and Everyone We Know and other new films.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

To the Wires Overhead To the Wires Overhead

This is the year when the swallows did not come back you have not noticed

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To Being Late To Being Late

Again again you are the right time after all not according to however we planned it

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To the Margin To the Margin

Following the black footprints the tracks of words that have passed that way before me I come again and again to your blank shore

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

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