Virtual Pinocchio Virtual Pinocchio
Why did Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick want Spielberg to direct Kubrick's A.I., the fable of a robot who wants a human mother's love? Imagine the personals ad Kubrick might ...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
Mother Courage Mother Courage
Kate Millett. Feminist, sculptor, lesbian, activist, advocate, New Yorker to the core. Just over thirty years ago, Millett published the hugely influential bestseller Sexual Polit...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Music for Chameleons Music for Chameleons
When they came for Newton Arvin, as he had always known they someday would--the sex cops, the truth squad, the Cossacks, fathers and philistines--he spilled his beings. In the cro...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Gender Unbender Gender Unbender
Pierre Bourdieu's newsworthiness has become news. The profile of him in the New York Times deals more with how bright his star is than with its substance, and quite a bit of the a...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
A.I. at Universal U A.I. at Universal U
Thinks..., David Lodge's new novel about cognitive science, university politics and marital infidelity, shows once again the author's knack for making intellectual concepts user-f...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David L. Sweet
Eminem: Grammy’s Homecoming Queen? Eminem: Grammy’s Homecoming Queen?
So if you managed to endure CBS's three-plus hours of Grammy cov erage, if you survived the sparsely attended protests from GLAAD and NOW, host Jon Stewart's lame commentary, the ...
Jul 9, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
Drawing for Projection Drawing for Projection
In a famous sequence of photographs, Henri Matisse documented, over the course of six months in 1935, twenty-two states of his evolving Large Reclining Nude. On impulse, I recentl...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
A Fellow Traveling A Fellow Traveling
Ron Radosh seems an easy target, so easy that a toy pistol (or automatic writing) should be weaponry enough--and no need to bother Nation readers, keen folks that we are, with a d...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman
Cold War Ghosts Cold War Ghosts
When the New York Times Op-Ed page called and asked whether I thought the death of Gus Hall, the perennial US Communist Party candidate for President who served time for "conspir...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
The Limeys The Limeys
Franky Four Fingers. Bullet Tooth Tony. Boris the Blade. Barry the Baptist. Porno king Hatchet Harry, who coshes his victims with a fifteen-inch black rubber cock. These are just ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley