Philip Weiss
Articles by Philip Weiss
His New York Jewish Public Self Was American Triumph
James Hamilton
The subject was old age. Norman Mailer said there was a grace in aging. He didn’t feel as angry or self-involved as he once did; he wasn’t wrapped up in his disappointments. He had set out to be a “major historical figure,” like the literary matinee idols of his youth, Steinbeck and Hemingway. That hadn’t happened. He accepted that he was a writer.
It was shortly after his 84th, and last, birthday, in January, and he was having dinner in the Upper East Side apartment of author-activist-patron Jean Stein. read more »
At 46, I'm Obsessed With My Muse, Alanis
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Alanis Morissette
I’m in Alanis Morissette withdrawal. read more »
Satan, Meet Norman
![Mailer's Morality: "Even the writer who can be a perfect scamp ... there is a moral under that."](http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/article/files/012207_article_cover.jpg "Mailer's Morality: "Even the writer who can be a perfect scamp ... there is a moral under that."")
Victor Juhasz
Mailer's Morality: "Even the writer who can be a perfect scamp ... there is a moral under that."
The Castle in the Forest, by Norman Mailer. Random House, 477 pages, $27.95.
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Mamet Embraces Ritual, Spews Venom at Lapsed Jews
David Mamet (b. 1947): Not an imbecile, at least according to Noam Chomsky.
A book about Jewishness by the playwright David Mamet, you might expect it to be personal, even conf read more »
Mamet Embraces Ritual, Spews Venom at Lapsed Jews
A book about Jewishness by the playwright David Mamet, you might expect it to be personal, even conf read more »
Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border
JERUSALEM, Israel—I’ve never been a war correspondent, and this failing has sometimes gnawed at read more »
Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border
JERUSALEM, Israel—I’ve never been a war correspondent, and this failing has sometimes gn read more »
Our Other War
JERUSALEM—On July 26, the Israeli army suffered a historic blow when eight men from the elite read more »
Our Other War
JERUSALEM—On July 26, the Israeli army suffered a historic blow when eight men from the elite Gola read more »
What Would a Jewish Veep Say About Intermarriage?
Barry Blitt
Joe Lieberman
Talk of Senators Joe Lieberman or Dianne Feinstein being Al Gore’s running mate has raised the read more »
What Would a Jewish Veep Say About Intermarriage?
Talk of Senators Joe Lieberman or Dianne Feinstein being Al Gore’s running mate has raised the pos read more »
Clinton Accuser Discusses Agonizing Weeks as NBC Dragged It Out
Barry Blitt.
Bill Clinton.
On Feb. 12, 1999, the Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton of impeachment charges. read more »
The New Yorker at War
General Forrest Harding's house in Franklin, Ohio, is preserved as it was before his death in 1970, read more »
They'd Rather Be In Philadelphia, Battling for Kerry
PHILADELPHIA-Wandering through a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia as night fell on Tuesday read more »
Bowles' Detached Life, Lonely, Artistic, but Satisfied
Paul Bowles, A Life , by Virginia Spencer Carr. Scribner, 409 pages, $35.
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In Deepest Ohio, I Was Embedded In Bush Bunker
With two weeks to go, I volunteered for Kerry in Wisconsin, so with nine days left, I’m volunteeri read more »
In Deepest Ohio, I Was Embedded In Bush Bunker
With two weeks to go, I volunteered for Kerry in Wisconsin, so with nine days left, I'm volunteering read more »
Waiting for Kerry, Wisconsin Man in Cap Recites Abe Lincoln
It’s a union hall on the west side of Milwaukee, but the people pushing through the glass doors do read more »
Yankee-Hate Therapy: One Early Loather Goes on the Couch
Barry Blitt
Joe Torre.
October is the ruthless month, October is when I go to Dan for comfort. read more »
The Night Kerry Surged
Still heated by John Kerry’s performance in Coral Gables, Fla., the night before, a couple of hund read more »
Invasion of Bushy Snatchers
An empire requires an imperial city, and the Republicans turned New York into the backlot for Julius read more »
To Find City's Heart, Lose Your Wallet-I Did Five Times
For a long time I've wondered what would happen if I lost my wallet in the city-would I get it back? read more »
9/11 Report Misses One Crucial Point: Mideastern Policy
A month or so back, Bob Kerrey loped in late from a meeting ofthe 9/11 commission to the New School read more »
Roger W. Straus Adored A Rascal-And So Did I
Roger Straus' funeral was a dirgelike gathering at Temple Emanu El with solemn talk from the rabbi a read more »
Here's New Face Of U.S. Military: Lynndie England
The condemnation of Lynndie England, the abuser of prisoners, in some ways echoes the exaltation a y read more »
Is Elliott Abrams, Bush's N.S.C. Guy, Still Separatist?
You have to climb the Strand's Judaica bookshelves like a ladder to get at a copy of Elliott Abrams' read more »
Hail, Tony Blair! British Blisterers Saved Democracy
In sandals and open shirts, with earrings, poor posture, black jeans and mumbling plummy accents, a read more »
'Bye, Meritocracy! O'Connor's Opinion
The meritocracy has been around for nearly 60 years now, but the moral claims that were made for it read more »
Feminists Flip For Shriver Novel, Underground Hit
For the last few weeks, just about the only word I've heard from literate women I know has been "Kev read more »
Big Jewish Leaders Tear the Road Map Into Little Pieces
In Jewish political life, there are little Jews and big Jews. read more »
Rachel Corrie Died In Palestine Rubble, But Her Issue Lives
On the morning of March 10, Cindy Corrie stopped inside Union Station and called her daughter overse read more »
Media Tom and Tim: Bloviating Pillars Of American Empire
When the tank pulled Saddam's statue down in Baghdad, and Iraqis-a small crowd of them, anyway-jumpe read more »
Road Not Taken, Yet: Paving an S.U.V. Trail To Everest Summit
In early April 1953, a gangling man with a lantern jaw stood alongside a shorter dark-skinned man in read more »
In Skakel Defense, R.F.K. Jr.'s Piece Summons Questions
One of the most forceful articles I've read in some time was written not by a journalist, but a lawy read more »
Fox TV's Volpone In a Hard Hat: Joe Millionaire
A few years back, we liked ourselves a lot. read more »
In South Pacific, A Lone Briton Visits a Grave
A story for the new year.On a Saturday night before Christmas on the Pacific island where I've been read more »
I'm Back in Bali: Islam Persists–So Get Used to It
KUTA,INDONESIA-The Northern Europeans haven't left Bali. Swedes, Germans and Dutch dot Kuta beach. read more »
Who's Master Now?
The last two standing from Seinfeld are its co-creators, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, and the two read more »
Who's Master Now?
The last two standing from Seinfeld are its co-creators, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, and the two read more »
If Poet Amiri Baraka Becomes Ex-Laureate, Is It Bad for Writers?
The one piece of art at the site of the World Trade Center is a squat cross welded of girders and mo read more »
Ram Dass Revival: Frail but Vibrant, He Gets a Library
When the religious history of our time is written, maybe there will at least be a footnote for an eb read more »
Holy or Unholy, Jews and Right in an Alliance
Right after 9/11, I made a bold prediction: that the small number of players who determine American read more »
Interview With the Vamp
A few weeks back, a friend handed me model Janice Dickinson's autobiography and said it was a juicy read more »
Gore Girls Slept Here: I Find Secret Suite Down in New Zealand
My wife and I were getting away, a back-to-nature trip to New Zealand, and at the welcome center on read more »
Oklahoma Memorial Isn't Right Tone For Towers Shrine
Oklahoma City , Okla . - This city has helped New York over and over in the last nine months. read more »
Melville Mystery Cannot Be Stifled By New Biography
At 29, Herman Melville had a wonderful wish, that Shakespeare was alive in New York."Not that I migh read more »
108 Rabbis-to-Be Sign in Sympathy With Palestinians
Before me on my desk is a powerful document, a letter to American Jewish leaders calling on them to read more »
In Washington, D.C., Lerner, Cornel West Cuffed for Peace
There were three police cars outside the door of Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, Md. read more »
At 46, I'm Obsessed With My Muse, Alanis
I'm in Alanis Morissette withdrawal. read more »
Merrily, He Rolled: Pearl Was Exuberant, Deeply Cultured
PALO ALTO, CALIF.-Danny Pearl's friends lingered together, in the velvety 6 o'clock California light read more »
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