Books & the Arts

Oprah Learns Her Lesson Oprah Learns Her Lesson

Is this it? The end of the Oprah Book Club as we know it? It's Thursday, April 4, at approximately 3:45 pm. In less than twenty-four hours, virtually everyone in America will ...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kathy Rooney

Melville at Sea Melville at Sea

In 1851, when the 32-year-old Herman Melville published his masterpiece Moby-Dick, he was already known as a man who'd consorted with cannibals. His first book, Typee: A Peep at P...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple

The Wonder Years The Wonder Years

Since this is going to be a story about sex and children, let's start with a bit of groping in the priests' chamber. I must have been 12. My confederates and I, all suited out ...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski

Gayness Becomes You Gayness Becomes You

Nearly fifty years ago, in Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse suggested that homosexuals (then the current term) might someday--because of their "rebellion against the subjuga...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman

Militants on the Steppes Militants on the Steppes

It was an early November morning when I met Gairam Muminov on the steps of a courthouse on the outskirts of Tashkent, the sprawling capital of Uzbekistan. He was leaning against a...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Raffi Khatchadourian

The Great Societizer The Great Societizer

Reading Robert Caro to learn about Lyndon Johnson is like going to an elaborate buffet in order to get the four basic food groups; they both give you what you need along with much...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner

A ‘Thirst for the Divine’ A ‘Thirst for the Divine’

Charles Wright and Charles Simic count among the best poets of their generation. Each career has unfolded with considerable excitement for serious readers of contemporary poetry, ...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jay Parini

History in a Blur History in a Blur

It seems scarcely to have required a great philosophical mind to come up with the observation that each of us is the child of our times, but that thought must have been receive...

Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

The Days of May The Days of May

What date shall I assign to Chris Marker's magnum opus, A Grin Without a Cat? This rugged oak of an essay-film, whose gnarls trace the growth and withering of decades of leftis...

Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Discovery/The Nation ’02 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’02 Prizewinners

The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/ The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize. Now in its twenty-eighth year, it is an annual contest for poets whose work ha...

Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Various Poets

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