La Japonaise La Japonaise
With each last reverberation from the world of 1960s and '70s radicalism--the recent parole of Kathy Boudin, for example, a member of the Weather Underground who served twenty-...
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan
The Man Without Qualities The Man Without Qualities
The hero of The Namesake is an American of Bengali parentage named Gogol Ganguli.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Bromwich
Local Color Local Color
A review of Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak
Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child
Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain attracted considerable attention some years back; it was widely read as a fictionalized version of literary critic Anatole Broyard's life.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’ Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’
Eben Moglen has been representing parties sued by the recording industry and is working on a book about the death of intellectual property.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen
What’s On K Street? What’s On K Street?
HBO's new political program is a vivid (and disgusting) expression of our decayed democracy.
Oct 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Judgment Day Judgment Day
The antigay bias that permeates the Republican Party can be clearly seen in Bush's judicial appointments. Among the unalloyed homophobes Bush has nominated for the federal benc...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Doug Ireland
Rhapsody in Blue Rhapsody in Blue
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams
Our Victorian Ancestors Our Victorian Ancestors
"You are the heirs of one of the country's great traditions, the Progressive movement that started late in the nineteenth century and remade the American experience piece by pi...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
Justice Talking Justice Talking
In his memoir, Taking Liberties, Aryeh Neier emerges, almost despite himself, as a fascinating man.
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Scott L. Malcomson