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When Jesus posed this question to his disciples in Matthew's Gospel, Peter emphatically and faithfully replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And what might the answer be today? Three newly published scholarly books put forward a startlingly revisionist reply. While Jesus may have been...
In confinement his gifts were set free. Life on the outside unsettled him. He lived in hotels, traveling constantly and falling for good-looking straight ! guys or hustlers who knew an open wallet when they saw one. In the mid-1950s, after a long depression, Genet the confessional novelist re...
The subject of ethnic pride never arose. Dad was simply being practical. In the New York of his day, a tribal pecking order prevailed in many fields. Mario Cuomo, though a top student, couldn't find a berth in any major law firm. Except for the lowliest jobs, Wall Street...
Success is the best revenge. McNally, who has achieved much, helps others as vice president of the Dramatists Guild; this fall he launches a playwriting department at the Juilliard School. For McNally, success means finding a unique voice that people have to hear. In Ganesh his subject is the universal...
For movie and record companies, however, the digital-delivery danger seems real and present. Some of the show-business opposition is simple conservatism, knee-jerk opposition to the radically new. For Hollywood in particular, a key caste system would be disconcertingly upended: major motion-picture premieres on cable TV would...