Spike’s Season Spike’s Season
In Summer of Sam, Spike Lee has made a small, shapely drama about two young Italian-American couples in the Bronx.
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?
If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
Scandalocracy Scandalocracy
Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert Dallek
Corporate Greenhouse Corporate Greenhouse
This book is aimed at business executives, but political reporters may have to read it too, now that Republican front-runner George W. Bush has decided that global warming is re...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard
‘Snake Eat Snake’ ‘Snake Eat Snake’
A few years ago, one of Lebanon's giddier periodicals, suitably titled Prestige, published as its cover story an interview with a Lebanese celebrity.
Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Walid Harb
‘Free-Range Rude’ ‘Free-Range Rude’
Early in Hannibal, Thomas Harris's hungrily anticipated sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, an Italian chief investigator on the trail of Dr.
Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Annie Gottlieb
The Non-Silence of the Un-Lamblike The Non-Silence of the Un-Lamblike
After the success of Infinite Jest in 1996, David Foster Wallace took a vacation from fiction and, perhaps, from fans' expectations with A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Agai...
Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tom LeClair
Bridge Over Troubled Water Bridge Over Troubled Water
Legend has it that Potemkin, burdened by duties and melancholy, once neglected to order the packing up of one of his stage-set villages.
Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Holocaust Creationism Holocaust Creationism
Between 1945 and 1947 the United States underwent perhaps the most breathtaking ideological transformation in its history.
Jun 24, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Republic of Pain Republic of Pain
Quick, name a recent Nobel Peace Prize laureate accused of colluding in a program of mass murder. No, not Henry Kissinger--that's old news.
Jun 24, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey