Among the Gilded Paupers Among the Gilded Paupers
The quest for El Dorado, the mythic city of gold, is at the heart of the tumultuous history of the Americas.
Apr 10, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Anderson Tepper
Hors de Combat Hors de Combat
She's the ultimate quick-change artist, with a style that can absorb any trend and an image to match. She's gone from material girl to S/M maitresse, from power diva to content...
Apr 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
Bloomsburied in China Bloomsburied in China
A divide exists between Chinese literature and movies written, produced, read or viewed in the West, and those written and produced in mainlaind China.
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia Laurence
Dangerous Liaisons Dangerous Liaisons
He says he is not a fighter--or rather, the narrator says it; he's "an onlooker," someone who steps aside, "frail," "not the savior of the world," not a "prophet," speaking onl...
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Joseph McElroy
Diversity and Its Malcontents Diversity and Its Malcontents
David L. Kirp has chronicled the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, history in Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton).
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
A Stone Unturned A Stone Unturned
Someone once described Graham Greene as the novelist of decolonizing Britain.
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
The Tragedy of William O. Douglas The Tragedy of William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a judicial record-setter.
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David J. Garrow
Respectfully Yours Respectfully Yours
Richard Sennett is best known in the United States for his 1972 book (written with Jonathan Cobb), The Hidden Injuries of Class. That study of white working-class men, how they...
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon
To the Unfinished To the Unfinished
Clear eminence without whom I would be nothing oh great provision never seen barely acknowledged even wished away
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
There's no better antidote to orange alerts and duct-tape dictums than good fiction, and if the terrorists occupying the White House have shot your attention span, try a book of ...
Mar 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Judith Long