Go East, Young Man! Go East, Young Man!
In one of his sunnier moods, Jean-Luc Godard might have tacked onto The Last Samurai the subtitle une étrange aventure de Tom Cruise.
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Soul Keeping Company Soul Keeping Company
The hours between washing and the well Of burial are the soul's most troubled time.
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lucie Brock-Broido
Scully’s Way Scully’s Way
Generations of Yale students share stories about special moments in Vincent Scully's courses on art and architecture.
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Bender
Weapons of the Weak Weapons of the Weak
African-American history, broadly defined, continues to be the most innovative and exciting field in American historical studies.
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / George M. Fredrickson
The Abstract Impressionist The Abstract Impressionist
I have always marveled at the way in which Abstract Expressionism was able to transform a disparate group of painters, none of whom had shown any particular promise of artistic g...
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Occupational Hazards Occupational Hazards
One of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is the relationship between science and rationalism.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Omer Bartov
A Poet of Multitudes A Poet of Multitudes
Pablo Neruda is often compared to Walt Whitman. In fact, the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner outdid Whitman in some respects.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jay Parini
Gray’s Anatomy Gray’s Anatomy
We live, it has been said, in a postideological age. Ideologically confused might be more like it.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Danny Postel
Letter From South Carolina Letter From South Carolina
Shortly after Strom Thurmond died, the flags at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia were lowered to half-staff. Every flag except one, that is.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Wachter
American Apocalypse American Apocalypse
How "superpower syndrome" is ravaging the world.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert Jay Lifton