Books & the Arts

Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.

Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Barsamian

The New U The New U

While the public has been napping, the American university has been busily reinventing itself.

Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel

Tilman Riemenschneider

Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Legionnaire’s Disease Legionnaire’s Disease

If you squint long enough at Claire Denis's amazing Beau Travail--you'll have to squint, given the African sunlight--you will make out the faint contour of a story.

Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The ‘Casanova of Causes’ The ‘Casanova of Causes’

To her biographer, Simone de Beauvoir confided a less than rhapsodic one-night stand, in 1946, with the Hungarian malcontent Arthur Koestler: "One night I got so drunk I let him ...

Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

Pigeons Home to Roost Pigeons Home to Roost

Star vehicle?

Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Honor the Blacklistees Honor the Blacklistees

After last year's brouhaha surrounding the presentation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Elia Kazan, one member of the academ...

Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky

American Beauty or American Pie? American Beauty or American Pie?

*Last year, I was the guest editor of The Nation's first issue devoted exclusively to Hollywood and politics.

Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind

Inside Indiewood Inside Indiewood

The Nation asked seven prominent members of the independent film community, including several filmmakers who released major films this year, to take the temperature of the movem

Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind

Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood

The film Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop will be released in 2000...we hope.

Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Danny Hoch

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