Books & the Arts

Hollywood’s Big Sleep Hollywood’s Big Sleep

With negotiations between the Writers Guild and some of Hollywood's major film studios and TV networks at an impasse as the May 1 deadline nears, putting the panic of a strike in...

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Raymond Chandler

Residual Anger Residual Anger

Hollywood unions on the brink.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper

Long Live Indie Film Long Live Indie Film

Reports of its demise are exaggerated.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Geoffrey Gilmore

Matinee Idols Matinee Idols

Farai Chideya, Christopher Hitchens, Barney Frank, Susan Brownmiller, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt, Slavoj Zizek and Arthur Danto on their favorite screen stars.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

Reelpolitics Reelpolitics

Cinematic activism is enjoying a comeback.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Alissa Quart

Dinner Theater Dinner Theater

When I taught at Ted Bundy's alma mater, one student wrote this report: "He was our babysitter. He was not a very nice babysitter. He would play games and scare us and then say th...

Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Deconstructing the Election Deconstructing the Election

The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language: relations of power, not relations of meaning.       ...

Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Win McCormack

Some Cyberspace of Her Own Some Cyberspace of Her Own

I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.       --Michel Foucau...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Bronwyn Garrity

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FÉMINISME "Feminism...is the most popular and most effective movement to emerge from the sixties left," writes Katha Pollitt in her introdu...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Anti-Catholic? Round Two Anti-Catholic? Round Two

If a critic's clout can be measured by the ability to make an artist's name, the most important art critic in America today is clearly Rudolph Giuliani. Just over a year ago he e...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

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