Arts and Entertainment

Love, Sandler Style Love, Sandler Style

Although I'm mad for Paul Thomas Anderson's new picture, Punch-Drunk Love, I also suspect it's made me a little crazy.

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Mr. Feiffer Regrets Mr. Feiffer Regrets

Cartoonist Jules Feiffer dropped a pinpoint protest on First Lady Laura Bush's National Book Festival on October 12 in Washington.

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jules Feiffer

The Culture Blockade The Culture Blockade

The Bush Administration seems to be gunning to make history as the first great unilateralist government of the twenty-first century.

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter

Jerusalem Calling Jerusalem Calling

On his new album, country-rocker Steve Earle lets politics infuse his music.

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Corn

License to Kill License to Kill

The closest thing you get to a dull moment in Michael Moore's latest picture, Bowling for Columbine, is an interview with Marilyn Manson.

Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Of Jazz and Brave Ulysses Of Jazz and Brave Ulysses

Near the end of Jazz Modernism, Alfred Appel Jr.

Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe

Haunted Hermitage Haunted Hermitage

While going about their business, great artists often make monkeys of the people who write about them.

Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

High Noon: The Rewrite High Noon: The Rewrite

On September 17, PBS aired Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents. On the surface, this documentary is a posthumous homage to a worthy blacklisted screenwriter.

Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ed Rampell

Chile Reception Chile Reception

Walking at a good New Yorker's clip, you would need about fifteen minutes to go between Film Forum and the World Trade Center site: a straight shot down Varick Street from thre...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Mourning and Modernism After 9/11 Mourning and Modernism After 9/11

Can function follow form?

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Casey Nelson Blake

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