Culture

Rear Windows Rear Windows

Said the comic gangster in Payback, misquoting an old saw, "Don't shit where you eat. Or, I mean, where you live. That's it.

Feb 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Two, Like, Star-Crossed Lovers Two, Like, Star-Crossed Lovers

When a young woman in high school frets about the folks in Mogadishu--when, for that matter, she can spell "Mogadishu"--American moviegoers know she needs a fashion makeover, a ...

Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Ellington Hits 100 Ellington Hits 100

On the eve of the New York premiere of his Symphony No.

Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Albert Murray

Liberal Pilgrim’s Progress Liberal Pilgrim’s Progress

Time magazine once diagnosed newspaper columnist, author, professor-at-large and Hugh Hefner sidekick Max Lerner (1902­92) as suffering from a "crush on Americ...

Feb 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

The Great Pumpkin The Great Pumpkin

Some years ago, after I had completed a biography of the radical writer Josephine Herbst, I gave serious thought to writing a biography of Whittaker Chambers.

Jan 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Elinor Langer

Revenge of the Pod People Revenge of the Pod People

Nobody asked me to spend my weekend watching movies about alien invasions--so for all I know, I might have been acting on promptings from an otherworldly force.

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

History by the Letter History by the Letter

Whatever else the investigations of the President have uncovered, they have yielded thousands of sources--transcripts, letters, memos, audio- and videotapes--which Americans...

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Louis P. Masur

A Cold War Over the Cold War? A Cold War Over the Cold War?

Yale University Press's Annals of Communism series, begun in 1995, is among the most ambitious and influential scholarly undertakings to address the historical role of Communi...

Jan 28, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

Sixties Laugh-In Sixties Laugh-In

"They've come to steal my dreams," whimpers a female voice.

Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

Bitter Fruit for Rigoberta Bitter Fruit for Rigoberta

In the early eighties, I, Rigoberta MenchĂș became an international bestseller.

Jan 21, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin and Francisco Goldman

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