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Issue 105 Fall 2008
Shirin Neshat’s films transport us into a lyric portrayal of Muslim culture, a place closed to Westerners. Arthur C. Danto speaks with her about the feminine mystique, human identity and the effect postrevolutionary Iran has had on her life and work.
>>>Michael Roth has written on Foucault, psychoanalysis and the French Hegelians, and curated the exhibition, Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture. Philosopher David Carrier and the author discuss the minds that formed 20th-century thought.
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Javier Marías’s novel, A Heart So White, published in 1992, catapulted an author branded “difficult,” into a European literary phenomenon. Essayist Paul Ingendaay speaks with the Spanish writer about the nature of success.
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Bell’s first volume of his trilogy on the Haitian Revolution, All Souls’ Rising, was one of the most fascinating reads of the ‘90s. His second, Master of the Crossroads, portrays Toussaint-Louverture as the most progressive leader of his day.
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First time director Karyn Kusama’s Girlfight split the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for best picture. Shot around the New Jersey docks, it is the story of a beautiful Latina with a bad-girl attitude who boxes her way out of anger.
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Copenhagen’s success was a surprise to the playwright: why would packed houses care to listen to three actors discussing physics? Copenhagen won the 2000 Tony Award and the Evening Standard Theatre Award in London, both for best play.
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Abby Goldstein details Pipilotti Rist’s strange life-size replica of a suburban home where “something is not quite right.” Rist’s surreal worldview is now on display at the MoMA in an installation featuring 25-foot-high projections in the museum’s atrium.
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