Books & the Arts

The Year in Pictures The Year in Pictures

Looking backward in the January chill, I feel my eyes shoot past the films of 2002 toward a movie made some thirty years ago: a picture by Martin Scorsese about violent, driven...

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Fix at Ground Zero The Fix at Ground Zero

The second year of machinations at the World Trade Center site has gotten off to a vigorous start.

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Philip Nobel

Explaining ‘The Magician’ Explaining ‘The Magician’

Thomas Mann's popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks family business. It is in decline.

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

Unfinished Women Unfinished Women

Imaginary Friends, The Mercy Seat

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

I first read Samuel Delany's Tales of Nevèrÿon during the high-geek days of junior high.

Jan 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

Prick Up Your Ears Prick Up Your Ears

How does a fiercely anticorporate musician feel about participating in a corporate entertainment system?

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

The Power of Music The Power of Music

Talking With Eddie Vedder, Boots Riley, Amy Ray, Carrie Brownstein, Tom Morello

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ann Powers

Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs

Picture this: you're stranded on a desert island with nothing to comfort you but sand, sun and, miraculously, the solar-powered sound system that washed up with you.

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

In Cold Type In Cold Type

Topic magazine is a kaleidoscopic new British literary review, still in its infancy and edited by a bunch of precocious Cambridge graduate students.

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

‘Stakes Is High’ ‘Stakes Is High’

Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Chang

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