False History Lessons False History Lessons
Confronted with the inexplicable, policy-makers and pundits alike grope for the apt historical analogy. It's a natural human reaction.
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Kai Bird
Front Page With a Human Face Front Page With a Human Face
Back in the fifties, before the term "new journalism" was coined, back when Gay Talese was writing minor obituaries for the New York Times, Tom Wolfe was a grad student at Yale a...
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dan Wakefield
Political Chapter, Bible Verse Political Chapter, Bible Verse
After writing this, her fourth book on the Christian right, Sara Diamond donated fourteen years' worth of research--right-wing pamphlets, fliers and position papers--to the Unive...
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Abby Scher
Comic Relief, NEA-Style Comic Relief, NEA-Style
The world is a bleak canvas, all black and white, with only some grays "so that the black and the white [don't] bump into each other so hard." The gods are quarrelsome and bored...
Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski
Buddha Leaves Suburbia Buddha Leaves Suburbia
If you adored Catherine Texier's Breakup last year, fell to the floor gushing sympathetic tears for the abandoned raconteur and raised your fists with indignant empathy over the...
Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Minna Proctor
All the President’s Man? All the President’s Man?
When Dick Morris announced that he would write a book to divert attention from his adventure with the toes of a call girl, George Stephanopoulos, the President's senior policy a...
Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler
Holocaust Denial: A Sequel Holocaust Denial: A Sequel
The Case of Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments Until the past few months, bestowing any Holocaust honorific upon Binjamin Wilkomirski, the author of the
Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Harvey Peskin
Red Fox? Red Fox?
The contracts are signed, the treatment is being written and Fox Television plans to fast-track production on a ten- to twelve-hour miniseries based on lefty historian Howard Zin...
Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tom Gogola
The Forgotten Oscar The Forgotten Oscar
In the run-up to Sunday's Oscar ceremony the focus was on Elia Kazan and whether the Motion Picture Academy was doing the right thing by honoring him with a Lifetime Achievement ...
Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
Shud He Have Been a Contendah? Shud He Have Been a Contendah?
The inevitable controversy--presenting name-naming film director Elia Kazan with a Lifetime Achievement Award--has unfolded like an accident waiting to happen, aggravating the A...
Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Cliff Rothman