Street-Dancing Man Street-Dancing Man
In classical dance, the art of imbalance--the pirouette, the jeté or the mere ethereal, alighted walk that alone makes audiences feel they are getting their money's wort...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ginger Danto
Global Visions Global Visions
Since few of us at The Nation speak Thai, I'm going to refer to my favorite filmmaker of the month as Joe, which is the name actually used in this country by Apichatpong Weeras...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The New Product Placement The New Product Placement
Last fall, a half-dozen child psychologists lurked around New York's Yale Club at a convention called "Advertising & Promoting to Kids" in search of new, higher-paying clie...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Segall
Genet’s Palestinian Revolution Genet’s Palestinian Revolution
This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books' new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ahdaf Soueif
‘Random’ Destruction ‘Random’ Destruction
Once again, changes at Random House have made headlines in papers throughout the country.
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin
‘What Silent Love Hath Writ’ ‘What Silent Love Hath Writ’
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music this month, the Harvey Theater reclaims its original name--the Majestic--with the arrival of director Sam Mendes's beautiful renderings of Chek...
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
Among the Lotus-Eaters Among the Lotus-Eaters
In 1886 the British are fighting an imperial war on another continent with the express goal of suppressing and maintaining control of the natives. Sound familiar?
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Dr. Marc Siegel
Jump at de Sun Jump at de Sun
Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in N...
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook
Death at an Early Age Death at an Early Age
In October 1968, at the height of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, New York Mayor John Lindsay got heckled off the stage at a synagogue in Brooklyn.
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael E. Staub
Familia Faces Familia Faces
Genealogy rules Latino literature tyrannically.
Jan 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans