What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Recently, while doing some research into social conditions in the early twentieth century, I came across a reference to Looking Backward, written in 1888.
Dec 16, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Karen Rothmyer
Frederick Seidel of St. Louis Frederick Seidel of St. Louis
Frederick Seidel of St. Louis, Missouri, is probably the last American decadent--certainly he is the most distinguished.
Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robyn Creswell
Mamet Goes Wildeing Mamet Goes Wildeing
The great disparity in the critical reaction to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, now playing Off Broadway, serves to remind us that opinions are just that--neither right nor wrong, but...
Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
The Conservative Imagination The Conservative Imagination
Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.
Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / George Packer
Beyond the AIDS Quilt Beyond the AIDS Quilt
Last year marked the "twentieth anniversary" of AIDS, a grim occasion, to say the least, that put major US newspapers in an unenviable predicament.
Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
Who Will Tell the People? Who Will Tell the People?
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg's story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a "dedicated cold warrior" who supported A...
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine
Diary of the Bridget Joneses Diary of the Bridget Joneses
If single women have been told once, they've been told a thousand times: Don't think you're ever too successful or too young to have your ovaries shrivel up and die. Use 'em or...
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ashley Nelson
Is It Still Rock & Roll to You? Is It Still Rock & Roll to You?
A lot of nonsense has been written about the choreographer Twyla Tharp and her hit Broadway show, Movin' Out, since it opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on October 24.
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty
Adeptations Adeptations
Even without the aid of Smell-o-Vision, Charlie Kaufman's bedroom comes across as dank.
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Rawls and Us Rawls and Us
The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame an...
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman