Phantom of the White House Phantom of the White House
"We now live in a culture that's hyperaware of the construction and manipulation of images in politics," David Greenberg writes in Nixon's Shadow.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
The Foreign Correspondent The Foreign Correspondent
How we miss Martha Gellhorn, and how we need her right now!
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Neal Ascherson
A Soldier’s Story A Soldier’s Story
In the annals of American politics Winning Modern Wars is an unusual book.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Frances FitzGerald
The Name of Love The Name of Love
In January 1948 Dutton brought out the third novel of a promising young writer named Gore Vidal. The publishing house was nervous.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Haslett
Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote
On the page, Patricia Highsmith could inspire a law-abiding citizen to become a willing accomplice to murder, at least within the realm of the imagination.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kera Bolonik
Memoirs of a Revolutionist Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Who can recall the late Stokely Carmichael's first name and not associate it with the two most incendiary words of the 1960s, Black Power?
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Norman Kelley
Full Moon Full Moon
Clouds curdle round it, crack open, let it through. Radiance shades by cloudshapes; fat fruit of incandescence; sphere of peeled silver. I wonder
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
Man Making the Bed Man Making the Bed
Psalm after psalm into a dead sea of silence: they invite their own enormous, endangered day. Scalded, lord, by sunlight and the lizards watching, licking dust,
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
At Work At Work
On slow wings the marsh hawk is patrolling possibility--soaring, sliding down almost to ground level, twisting suddenly at something in the marsh hay or dune grass,
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $25,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by ...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert Wrigley