from ‘Mary in Old Age’ from ‘Mary in Old Age’
"I don't want to stay here. I want to stop it." Was "here" the nursing home? Was it the chair? The condition she was in? Her life? Life? The body? . . . ......
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Ferry
2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations represents a life's work in poetry. The component volumes did not meet with fanfare, yet the work is brilliant with ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mary Kinzie
A Riot of Personality A Riot of Personality
The first time I saw Anna Deavere Smith, I realized a new meaning had been given to the term "body politic." She was appearing in Fires in the Mirror, her show about the conflict...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
North of the Border North of the Border
One of the most haunting images in David Riker's film La Ciudad is of the New York City skyline seen from a work site miles away from midtown. There, a group of Hispanic dayworke...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Ugarte
Circus Maximus Circus Maximus
We don't have a TV at home, so we've missed the much-drubbed NBC Olympics coverage. So when a little friend of my son's said she'd been watching, I asked her if any of the event...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do… Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do…
Christina Hoff Summers is hot with righteous indignation on boys' behalf.
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mark Edmundson
On Painting Reality On Painting Reality
We've got too many stimuli and not enough places to put them. And so, perhaps, we keep moving around the surplus excitement, sticking it onto this or that image, with the unint...
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘The Big Discourse’ ‘The Big Discourse’
Unusually sensitive to the fast-changing character of liberal social structures, C. Wright Mills proved impervious to the bitter ironies of reform.
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Summers
Acting for Justice Acting for Justice
The two entertainment unions, already angered over runaway production, have tenaciously met the challenge and escalated the fight.
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
Why Dubya Can’t Read Why Dubya Can’t Read
The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.
Sep 24, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens