Books and Ideas

Fire at Will Fire at Will

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Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Prairie Home Companion Prairie Home Companion

When the University of Nebraska Press sent my review copy of the Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees with a note asking that I please accept the book with the compliments of ...

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kathy Rooney

Raceball in Boston Raceball in Boston

Any fan who over the years has attended a baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park notices how few African-Americans are in the stands.

Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Louis P. Masur

Racism: Coded as Culture? Racism: Coded as Culture?

This book makes a good case for racism--the word, not the ideology. What necessitated a defense?

Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

The Laboratories of Democracy The Laboratories of Democracy

Nothing is more galling to scientists than outsiders questioning their research priorities.

Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Kimmelman

Letter to America Letter to America

We must contain terror and protect its victims through extending human rights law.

Oct 10, 2002 / Feature / Mary Kaldor

Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation

Although he does not record CDs, Robin Kelley may well be the hippest intellectual in the land. There is plenty of substance to ground the style.

Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jason Sokol

Graham Greene, Roll Over Graham Greene, Roll Over

A few months ago, novelist Alan Furst, in one of those New York Times "Writers on Writing" pieces, told how, on a magazine assignment to the Soviet Union back in 1983, he sudde...

Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Schrag

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

Sense and Sexibility Sense and Sexibility

In 1967 the world-renowned if somewhat Dickensianly named sexologist John Money was offered a case he couldn't refuse.

Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen

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