Culture

Studs’s People Studs’s People

For Studs Terkel, the touchstone is memory and speech the stuff of which his art is made.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Harry Maurer

Moyers & FDR Moyers & FDR

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit today.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Bill Moyers

President Rudy’s War Council President Rudy’s War Council

Norman Podhoretz and Daniel Pipes consider how the newly elected President should proceed in the world arena. The first act of a five-act play.

Nov 21, 2007 / Peter C. Baker

War Novelist War Novelist

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. By Norman Mailer. Rinehart and Company. $4.

Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ira Wolfert

The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest

Lapham's Quarterly makes its debut, seeking to explain the present with illuminations from the past.

Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Evan Cornog

Roscoe Mitchell’s Wolf Tones Roscoe Mitchell’s Wolf Tones

The subtle sounds of this saxophonist defy definition.

Nov 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton

Triumph of the Wills Triumph of the Wills

A new apologia for Anglo-Saxon noblesse oblige needs a reality check.

Nov 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook

Rules of the Game Rules of the Game

A fresh translation of a Portuguese classic offers a poignant portrait of a country's decline.

Nov 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes

Will the Real Generation Obama Please Stand Up? Will the Real Generation Obama Please Stand Up?

The cranky, quirky and sometimes progressive politics practiced by a generation once considered slackers could be a deciding factor in this presidential election.

Nov 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry

Pat Robertson, Protector of Traditional Family Values, Endorses Rudy Giuliani, a Serial Adulterer… Pat Robertson, Protector of Traditional Family Values, Endorses Rudy Giuliani, a Serial Adulterer…

Why Pat ♥ Rudy.

Nov 15, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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