Books & the Arts

Checking the Union Labels Checking the Union Labels

The election of new AFL-CIO leaders more than three years ago ushered in an era of glasnost.

Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

Sixties Laugh-In Sixties Laugh-In

"They've come to steal my dreams," whimpers a female voice.

Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

Bitter Fruit for Rigoberta Bitter Fruit for Rigoberta

In the early eighties, I, Rigoberta MenchĂș became an international bestseller.

Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin and Francisco Goldman

Media Starvation Diet Media Starvation Diet

All during the year 1984, those of us with firsthand experience in Africa knew that drought and famine were cutting across vast swaths of the continent.

Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / James North

Duck Soup in Japan Duck Soup in Japan

Has no one informed Dr. Akagi that he's living in a complex and serious drama about the morale of Japanese citizens toward the end of World War II?

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom

The recent arrest in Israel of eight apocalyptic cult members, who reportedly planned to take their own lives at the millennium or provoke authorities into killing them, rev...

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Bettina Drew

Narnia Born Again Narnia Born Again

For 300 years, Christopher Wren's Sheldonian Theater has been the center of ceremonial life at Oxford.

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Joseph Gross

…Stinging Like a Bee …Stinging Like a Bee

Anyone with first- or even secondhand knowledge of the real-life subject must have wondered what strain of myopia possessed those producing the 1991 TV miniseries Separate bu...

Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Floating Like a Butterfly… Floating Like a Butterfly…

In October in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson went before the Nevada Athletic Commission to ask it to reinstate his boxing license, which had been suspended after Tyson took a bite out o...

Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / David Levi Strauss

Parades Gone By Parades Gone By

To begin the new year with something old: Milestone Film and Video has just re-released two films of antiquarian interest, directed (appropriately enough) by British film histo...

Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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