Stuff Happens Stuff Happens
Reviews of No End in Sight, The Devil Came on Horseback, The Sugar Curtain and Sunshine.
Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Artists Pursue the Disappeared Artists Pursue the Disappeared
With greater efficiency than the slow efforts for truth and justice, a traveling art exhibition bears witness to the victims of Argentina's "dirty war."
Jul 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marian Schlotterbeck
Boys (and Girls) of Summer Boys (and Girls) of Summer
Live Free or Die Hard is boot camp for slackers. Knocked Up takes measure of the inadequate man.
Jul 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Arthur: The Little Magazine That Could Arthur: The Little Magazine That Could
You thought Arthur was gone for good? The indie magazine beloved for its music coverage and antiwar politics will resume publishing this summer.
Jul 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kevin McCarthy
A Hard Look at Hard Time in Israel A Hard Look at Hard Time in Israel
Shimon Dotan's documentary Hot House takes a candid and compelling look at Palestinians serving life terms in Israeli prisons.
Jun 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jessica Weisberg
Nixon’s Broadway Revival Nixon’s Broadway Revival
Peter Morgan's new play is highly entertaining; Frank Langella's portrait of Nixon is brutally amusing; yet the play is historically inaccurate.
Jun 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Drew
Michael Moore’s Sicko Michael Moore’s Sicko
Michael Moore's healtcare documentary is less partisan, less outrageous--but more real--than anything he's done before.
Jun 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Chris Hayes
Anatomy of a Murder Anatomy of a Murder
Reviews of A Mighty Heart, Sicko, Czech Dream and Unborn in the USA.
Jun 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Company Man Company Man
Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein is a case study of the relationship between art and power.
Jun 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Garafola
The Sopranos’ Last Song The Sopranos’ Last Song
With an ominous sense of foreboding, Tony Soprano takes his last drive down the Jersey Turnpike, after seven seasons and 86 bloody, sexy, curse-ridden episodes.
Jun 7, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Max Fraser