Books and Ideas

My Guitar Gently Weeps My Guitar Gently Weeps

"I was in a highly unshaved and tatty state," John Lennon said of his 1966 meeting with a certain conceptual artist, then mounting her first show at London's Indica Gallery.

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alex Abramovich

A Sex of One’s Own A Sex of One’s Own

Nature versus nurture was always too simple a formulation. Now, we ask: Is it chance, choice, family, culture, hormones or genes that determine who we are and whom we love?

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein

Atop the Volcano Atop the Volcano

Gioconda Belli--poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista comrade--has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like a romance--a romance with politics a...

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anderson Tepper

Mystery in Milan Mystery in Milan

On March 16, 1972, readers in Italy and throughout the publishing world were shocked by the day's headlines.

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin

The Naked Truth The Naked Truth

If you've never set foot in the likes of Club Paradise, Scarlett's, New York Dolls, Secrets, Peepers or the boldly named Booby Trap (yes, it does exist), your image of a strip ...

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey

Update on Arming America Update on Arming America

Michael Bellesiles, the historian accused of research falsification in his book Arming America, a study of gun culture, announced on October 25 that he was resigning from Emory...

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

The Scourge of Baltimore The Scourge of Baltimore

As truth-tellers, journalists remain the undocumented aliens of the knowledge industry, operating in an off-the-books epistemological economy apart from philosophers and scient...

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

Big Labor’s Little Problem Big Labor’s Little Problem

At a "Lean Workplace School" for union members, sponsored by the monthly magazine Labor Notes in 1996, the discussion centered around how to fight employers' speed-up and worke...

Nov 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Slaughter

A Nation at Risk A Nation at Risk

A year ago Congress overwhelmingly approved George W.

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Sacks

The Real IRA The Real IRA

This is the best book yet written about the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eamonn McCann

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