Paint It Black Paint It Black
If the idea of monochrome painting occurred to anyone before the twentieth century, it would have been understood as a picture of a monochrome reality, and probably taken as a ...
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Thieves Like Us Thieves Like Us
In March 2001 a small Internet website in Delhi, tehelka.com, revealed that two of its reporters had used a secret camera to tape senior defense officials and political leaders...
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
Soul Man Soul Man
Pop music's eternal appeal can be found in one instance out of many: "This Magic Moment," a 1960 song by The Drifters.
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
American troops have been in Iraq since March, and their reception has been decidedly chillier than promised.
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Emily Biuso
Operation Iranian Freedom Operation Iranian Freedom
Click here to read Iran's New Strong Man by Andrew Roth from the September 5, 1953 issue of The Nation.
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tariq Ali
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I've been bashfully mute amidst the chatter over Norman Rush's new novel, Mortals, because he wasn't on the modest list of Writers I Know About.
Jul 21, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Bradley
Badlands Badlands
It's always good fun to see a boy wax romantic over the first girl to give him a handjob--and if the boy should be a black-hatted Jew, the fun is only improved.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Charlotte’s Web Charlotte’s Web
In 1890 the American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a remarkable short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," about a woman--genteel, educated, with more than a casual taste f...
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Written in Memory Written in Memory
Helen Keller may be the world's most famous supercrip.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bérubé
Lady Day Lady Day
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's new book, The Majesty of the Law, appears at a particularly auspicious moment. As the swing vote on and author of Grutter v.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Herman Schwartz