Books & the Arts

A Greek Bearing Gifts A Greek Bearing Gifts

Before I ask you to see Eternity and a Day, I'd better explain something about its director and co-screenwriter, Theo Angelopoulos.

Jun 3, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Neoliberals’ Paleomarkets Neoliberals’ Paleomarkets

In a book of interviews published a few years ago, Chronicles of Dissent, Noam Chomsky recounted a childhood incident that shaped his life.

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Neve Gordon

Leisurely Pleasure Leisurely Pleasure

This brief essay is taken from the latest book by Amos Oz, The Story Begins: Essays on Literature (Harcourt Brace).

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Amos Oz

Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation

Upon his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind some 2,000 pages of a never-finished second novel--more than forty years of fine-tuning what his literary executor, John F.

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

White Shirt, Blue Collar White Shirt, Blue Collar

In 1992, as the United States wallowed in recession, presidential candidate Bill Clinton began to use the term "working middle class" to describe millions of Americans who were b...

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

Rolling Thunder: the Rerun Rolling Thunder: the Rerun

People concerned about the US-led NATO war against Yugoslavia find much to reflect upon in the Vietnam experience.

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney

Of Time and the Artist Of Time and the Artist

One afternoon in 1985, I rode in a taxi down Broadway with the physicist I.I. Rabi, discussing time and age.

May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Monthly Review at 50 Monthly Review at 50

Monthly Review celebrated its semicentennial on May 7 with a Manhattan bash featuring loyalists Ossie Davis, Adrienne Rich and Cornel West, and a special retrospective May issue ...

May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle

Episode I–The Phantom Menace Episode I–The Phantom Menace

Not only now but every week, I am reminded at two-minute intervals of the influence of Star Wars.

May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Nowhere Man, Please Listen Nowhere Man, Please Listen

On April Fool's Day 1989, Leonid Loktev changed without warning into another person.

May 13, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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