What’s My Name, Fool? What’s My Name, Fool?
In The Godfather, Part II, dying mob boss Hyman Roth wheezes the obscene truth to young Don Michael Corleone.
Aug 2, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Visible Man Visible Man
The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate
Show Me the Money! Show Me the Money!
Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent's undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by t...
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Blood Simple Blood Simple
Half a century has passed since Manny Farber wrote in these pages about underground films, by which he meant the urban crime movies watched by male loiterers near the Greyhound s...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
An Appetite for Liebling An Appetite for Liebling
If we had four or five Abbott Joseph Lieblings in Iraq and Washington, it might be a different war, one in which those hugely amiable, observant and amusable souls could bring us...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson
A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics
We might provoke less violent demonstrations If we invaded slightly fewer nations.
Sep 2, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Patriot at the Bat Patriot at the Bat
Just as Roger Clemens can be counted on to fire heat, our national pastime inevitably waves the flag in times of national stress.
Aug 26, 2004 / Richard Pollak
Letter From Athens Letter From Athens
Pre-Olympics, anxious bravado prevails.
Jul 1, 2004 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Where Are the Jocks for Justice? Where Are the Jocks for Justice?
Cultural changes and lucrative endorsements may explain a drop in activism.
Jun 10, 2004 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
Tim Robbins v. the Hall of Fame Tim Robbins v. the Hall of Fame
Hinsdale, Illinois Please convey to Mr. Robbins my appreciation for his position on Bush and the invasion of Iraq. He and Susan Sarandon are putting their necks on the l...
Apr 18, 2003 / Our Readers