Bitter Fruit for Rigoberta Bitter Fruit for Rigoberta
In the early eighties, I, Rigoberta Menchú 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
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
Pollock and the Drip Pollock and the Drip
A characteristically handsome painting by Joan Mitchell is on view at the Museum of Modern Art in the exhibition American Art: 1940-1970.
Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
…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
Holiday Celluloid Wrap-Up Holiday Celluloid Wrap-Up
What marvels of ill assortment the film distributors perform when they dump their products at the close of the year in hope of award nominations.
Dec 24, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans