Grabitization (Don’t Look) Grabitization (Don’t Look)
Almost everything that is wrong with Washington Post foreign editor David Hoffman's new book about Russia's transformation into a capitalist system, The Oligarchs, can be discerne...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Matt Taibbi
In Cold Type In Cold Type
haven't done much mental spring cleaning because so much of the last month has been taken up with brooding and spewing about the crisis in the Middle East; no doubt the coming mon...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Yaqui Way of Knowledge Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Although Chicano identity has been Luis Valdez's theme since all but the earliest years of El Teatro Campesino, the guerrilla theater he founded in the 1960s, getting a clear sens...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb
The Evolution of Darwinism The Evolution of Darwinism
Popular perception notwithstanding, the theory of natural selection was accepted by every serious evolutionist long before Darwin. Earlier scientists interpreted it as the cleares...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Hawkes
Sleepless in Nightmute Sleepless in Nightmute
You may recall Insomnia as a Norwegian film made on a modest budget--do I repeat myself?--about the inner life of a morally compromised police detective. The picture enjoyed a sma...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Pick: THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS and Other Essays.
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Renewing Urban Renewal Renewing Urban Renewal
One of the things we do not do well in this country is learn from our mistakes. This is particularly true in the strengthening and rejuvenating of cities.
May 16, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Roberta Brandes Gratz
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
For more than a century, a recognizable pattern existed among those migrating to New York City: They came first either through Ellis Island or up from the American South, and m...
May 16, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Theodore Hamm
Futbol Futbol
As if to move a flexible sphere from here to there with unassisted head and foot were natural and obvious. As if a dance could always bow to resolute constraint and never be dance...
May 16, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn
The Band’s Long Waltz The Band’s Long Waltz
When I first saw The Last Waltz in 1978, I almost walked out, although I was a fan of both director Martin Scorsese and The Band. I admit I was one of the folks whose tickets for...
May 16, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro