From Gatsby to Gatz
The hottest ticket in New York this month, surprisingly, is not a musical or comedy on Broadway but an adaptation of a thoroughly familiar eighty-five-year-old ...
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Philip Roth’s New Novel – NEMESIS
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War, Economy, History: Politics by Other Media
Published in Dissent, Summer 2010. When Kathryn Bigelow’s movie about the Iraq War, The Hurt Locker, swept the Academy Awards, it was a signal triumph for a p...
Besieged: The 1950s at War and at Home
Then other week I took in two engrossing films from the 1950s that reminded me, if I needed reminding, of the enduring fascination and complexity of an era in A...
Ambassador Book Award for DANCING IN THE DARK
(My apologies for posting another speech, though presumably this will be the last one for some time. I made these remarks on June 10 in accepting the 2010 Ambas...
The Ph.D., the Economy, and the Knowledge Environment
(I delivered the following remarks at the Commencement exercises of the CUNY Graduate Center at Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center on June 2, 2010. It seemed i...
The Inner Nerd: Why Greenberg?
Thanks to the narcissism of its central character, who is at once insecure and aggressive, there could hardly be a more cringe-inducing current film than Noah B...