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Je préfère une seule fraise sauvage à tous les lauriers du monde
--Max Ernst

Art is constitutive–the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
--Goethe

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
--Flaubert

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
--Marcel Proust

Art is man's nature.
--Edmund Burke

• The Real French Warm Their Hearts - Peter Byrne - May 08
• ...And Now For A Short Commercial Break - Charles Marowitz - May 08
• Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine - Charles Marowitz - Apr. 08
• Jackie Mason: Return Of The Superjew - Charles Marowitz - March 08
• Second Sex - Martin Murie - Feb. 08
• London Laughing - Peter Byrne - Feb. 08
• Simone de Beauvoir One Hundred Years After Her Birth - Karen Moller - Feb. 08
• The Unfinished Business Of Simone de Beauvoir - Marie Rennard - Feb. 08
• Simone de Beauvoir: The Mother Of Us All - Gilles d'Aymery - Feb. 08
• Not Shutting Up For A Second: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - Peter Byrne - Feb. 08
• Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age - Louis Proyect - Feb. 08
• The Crime Novels Of Patricia Highsmith - Louis Proyect - Jan. 08
• Groucho, Chico, & Harpo - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 08
• Parting Words - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 08
• Wilfrid Sheed's The House That George Built - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 07
• Sexual Equality - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 07
• Unauthorized Considerations Of A Housewife About Things She'd Better Not Feel Concerned With - Marie Rennard - Nov. 07
• On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of On the Road - Karen Moller - Oct. 07
• Notes From Cheyenne - Martin Murie - Oct. 07
• Politicolingo & The Vanishing Art Of Rhetoric - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 07
• Send Off The Clowns - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 07
• Gulag For Critics - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 07
• Is Life A Set Of Infundibula? - Carol Warner Christen - Aug. 07
• Remembering Joe Orton - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 07
• Linguistic Blending - Francesca Saieva - Aug. 07
• Who Was Michael Chekhov? - Charles Marowitz - July 07
• New Art And Imperialism In Dublin - Peter Byrne - June 07
• Remembering Mstislav Rostropovich - Isidor Saslav & Arthur Lieb - May 07
• More Revivals Of Seldom Heard Operas In New York - Isidor Saslav - May 07
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) - Bijou (1989-2007) - Gilles d'Aymery - April 07
• The Day Of The 'Cello - Isidor Saslav - April 07
• Schizoid Comedy & Stephen Colbert - Charles Marowitz - March 07
• Streetcar Derailed In Denmark - Charles Marowitz - March 07
• Concerts And An Opera In New York - Isidor Saslav - March 07
• Pimps and Ponces at War - Peter Byrne - Feb. 07
• "The Producers" In Denmark - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 07
• As Time Goes By - Michael Doliner - Jan. 07
• Do You Know The Way To San José? - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 07
• "The Queen" - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 06
• The Coronation Of Harold Pinter - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 06
• People - Peter Byrne - Dec. 06
• Bring The Old Christmas Carols Back - George Beres - Dec. 06
• The Birth Of The Blues - Peter Byrne - Nov. 06
• Italy Invaded By Troupes Armed With Theory - Peter Byrne - Nov. 06
• Re-Marx - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 06
• Total Refusal - Peter Byrne - Oct. 06
• Where're The Stars? - Peter Byrne - Sept. 06
• Tony Blair: Child Of The Hippie Generation - Sept. 06
• Oriana Fallaci, 1929-2006 - Peter Byrne - Sept. 06
• Honni Soit Qui Malibu - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 06
• Free Time - Peter Byrne - Sept. 06
• Prince Charming And Cinderella's Stepfather - Karen Moller - Sept. 06
• On The Barricades In May 1968 - Karen Moller - Aug. 06
• Fathers - Peter Byrne - Aug. 06
• A Place In The Sun - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 06
• From San Francisco To Paris In 1959 - Karen Moller - Aug. 06
• Tina Modotti: A Blank Face Between Art And Revolution - Peter Byrne - Aug. 06
• Exclusive Interview With William Shakespeare - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 06
• Post Cards - Peter Byrne - July 06
• Venice: Nobody's Town - Peter Byrne - July 06
• The Pictures - Peter Byrne - July 06
• Demise Of The Bard - Charles Marowitz - July 06
• Three Faces Of Ostracism - Gilles d'Aymery - June 06
• Flowers For Lunch - Peter Byrne - June 06
• Decoding The Da Vinci Code - Charles Marowitz - June 06
• Season Of Trouble - Peter Byrne - June 06
• The Hanging Of Peter Handke From The Orthodox Gallows - Gilles d'Aymery - June 06
• Bring Back Dada - Charles Marowitz - May 06
• Television And The Witch Hunt - Louis Proyect - May 06
• Whatever Became Of Studs Lonigan? - Peter Byrne - May 06
• The Peter Handke Controversy - Gilles d'Aymery - May 06
• Imperialism And Plagiarism - Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan - May 06
• Beckett At A Hundred Or Who's Celebrating Watt? - Peter Byrne - May 06
• Improving Shakespeare - Charles Marowitz - April 06
• Nanni Moretti's Il Caimano - Peter Byrne - April 06
• Keith Jarrett In San Francisco - Gilles d'Aymery - March 06
• Fat Pigs And The American Drama - Charles Marowitz - March 06
• The Love Extortionists - Charles Marowitz - March 06
• Dirt Places - Martin Murie - March 06
• Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight - Jan Baughman - Feb. 06
• The Assumption Of Oprah Winfrey - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 06
• Oprah Ignores True Problems with Truth - George Beres - Feb. 06
• Monkey Business - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 06
• Las Vegas: "When We Dead Awaken" - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 06
• "CAPOTE": How Far Should We Go? - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 05
• End Of Story - Alma A. Hromic - Nov. 05
• Cinematizing Shakespeare - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 05
• I'd Walk A Million Miles For One Of Your Smiles - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 05
• Bob Dylan's Chronicles Volume One - Louis Proyect - Oct. 05
• Piers Paul Read's Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 05
• An Appreciation Of Christopher Fry: 1907-2005 - Charles Marowitz - July 2005
• Heading Home To Tavistock Square - Tim Keane - July 2005
• Brecht In Hollywood - Charles Marowitz - June 2005
• McLibel: Food For Thought And Inspiration For The Soul - Jan Baughman - June 2005
• Saul Bellow In Retrospect - Louis Proyect - June 2005
• Peter Brook At Eighty - Charles Marowitz - June 2005
• Chris Matthews, The Interviewer As Mugger - Charles Marowitz - May 2005
• Wearing Two Hats: The Director Takes On The Critic - Charles Marowitz - May 2005
• Running On Fumes: A Journey To The End Of Empire - Phil Rockstroh - May 2005
• Of UberCulture And The River - Phil Rockstroh - April 2005
• The Art And Politics Of Film Part III - John Steppling amp; David Walsh - April 2005
• Of Margaret Mitchell, Blind Willie McTell, Wonder Bread, New York City Real Estate, And The Road To Proto-Fascism - Phil Rockstroh - April 2005
• The Art And Politics Of Film Part II - John Steppling amp; David Walsh - April 2005
• Huxley In Tinsel Town - Charles Marowitz - April 2005
• The Art And Politics Of Film Part I - John Steppling amp; David Walsh - March 2005
• English vs. American Theatre Criticism - Charles Marowitz - March 2005
• Learning From The Classics - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 2005
• The Ghost In The Hologram - Joe Bageant, Phil Rockstroh & John Steppling - Feb. 2005
• A Death In The Family - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 2005
• Arthur Miller - Louis Proyect - Feb. 2005
• Sha Sha Higby: An Appreciation - Milo Clark - Feb. 2005
• Le Chant des Partisans - Maurice Druon, Joseph Kessel & Anna Marly - Jan. 2005
• America Has Left The Building... Part II - Phil Rockstroh & John Steppling - Jan. 2005
• Johnny Carson - John Steppling - Jan. 2005
• America Has Left The Building... - Phil Rockstroh & John Steppling - Jan. 2005
• Working With Havel - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 2005
• Let's Hear It for the Lyricists - Philip Greenspan - Jan. 2005
• The Sopranos, Capitalism And Organized Crime - Louis Proyect - Nov. 2004
• Cultural Entropy - John Steppling - Nov. 2004
• Dying Empire Bebop: The Sedition Of Ecstatic Novelty - Phil Rockstroh - Nov. 2004
• The Genius Of Marlon Brando - John Steppling - July 2004
• Ron And Ray - Gilles d'Aymery - June 2004
• The Silly Season Amidst Terminal Decay - Gilles d'Aymery - Dec. 2003
• Compay Segundo And Benny Carter - Louis Proyect - July 2003
• PLI SELON PLI: A Modern Masterpiece - Gregory Elich - Feb. 2003
• The Tribulations Of The Toads - Gilles d'Aymery - July 2002
• Explico Algunas Cosas - Pablo Neruda - March 2002
• The Nebulous Middle Mind - Gilles d'Aymery - Dec. 2001
• Le Déserteur - Boris Vian - Dec. 2001