Books & the Arts

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

A Vesuvius of violence has erupted from the dead center of American life, the executive branch of the government.

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Diversity and Its Malcontents Diversity and Its Malcontents

David L. Kirp has chronicled the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, history in Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton).

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Bloomsburied in China Bloomsburied in China

A divide exists between Chinese literature and movies written, produced, read or viewed in the West, and those written and produced in mainlaind China.

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia Laurence

Dangerous Liaisons Dangerous Liaisons

He says he is not a fighter--or rather, the narrator says it; he's "an onlooker," someone who steps aside, "frail," "not the savior of the world," not a "prophet," speaking onl...

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Joseph McElroy

Death in Helsinki Death in Helsinki

OK, let's say that life goes on.

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

To the Unfinished To the Unfinished

Clear eminence without whom I would be nothing oh great provision never seen barely acknowledged even wished away

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

The Tragedy of William O. Douglas The Tragedy of William O. Douglas

William O. Douglas was a judicial record-setter.

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David J. Garrow

A Stone Unturned A Stone Unturned

Someone once described Graham Greene as the novelist of decolonizing Britain.

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith

Respectfully Yours Respectfully Yours

Richard Sennett is best known in the United States for his 1972 book (written with Jonathan Cobb), The Hidden Injuries of Class. That study of white working-class men, how they...

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon

Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes

While Michael Moore was leaving the stage of the Kodak Theater during the seventy-fifth annual Academy Awards ceremony, after calling George W.

Mar 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper

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