Books & the Arts

What Boddah You?: The Authenticity Debate What Boddah You?: The Authenticity Debate

If there's one thing everyone agrees on about Hawaii writer Lois-Ann Yamanaka, it's that she has a perfect ear for local pidgin dialects, which change cadence and idiom througho...

Feb 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker

The Footlights’ Non-Glare The Footlights’ Non-Glare

At lunch with a colleague who is devoted to the theater, the discussion turned to Broadway and she mentioned she had seen the revival of On the Town, the buoyant 1944 Comd...

Feb 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Shteir

Ellington Hits 100 Ellington Hits 100

On the eve of the New York premiere of his Symphony No.

Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Albert Murray

Two, Like, Star-Crossed Lovers Two, Like, Star-Crossed Lovers

When a young woman in high school frets about the folks in Mogadishu--when, for that matter, she can spell "Mogadishu"--American moviegoers know she needs a fashion makeover, a ...

Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Liberal Pilgrim’s Progress Liberal Pilgrim’s Progress

Time magazine once diagnosed newspaper columnist, author, professor-at-large and Hugh Hefner sidekick Max Lerner (1902­92) as suffering from a "crush on Americ...

Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

The Great Pumpkin The Great Pumpkin

Some years ago, after I had completed a biography of the radical writer Josephine Herbst, I gave serious thought to writing a biography of Whittaker Chambers.

Jan 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Elinor Langer

History by the Letter History by the Letter

Whatever else the investigations of the President have uncovered, they have yielded thousands of sources--transcripts, letters, memos, audio- and videotapes--which Americans...

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Louis P. Masur

Curious George Talks the Market Curious George Talks the Market

The epic, slow-motion crisis unraveling the global economic system continues to gather momentum, taking down Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia, now Brazil. Who's next?

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

A Bend in the Color Line A Bend in the Color Line

Policy talk about a racialized "underclass" rests on social science research that often reproduces notions of racial difference, in an enormous tautology.

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gerard Fergerson

Revenge of the Pod People Revenge of the Pod People

Nobody asked me to spend my weekend watching movies about alien invasions--so for all I know, I might have been acting on promptings from an otherworldly force.

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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