http://www.observer.com/term/jean_paul-sartre en http://www.observer.com/node/36921 <img src="/files/article/031907_article_book_marler.jpg" />Clive James has a high-maintenance girlfriend: the reader. To educate this girlfriend, to correct her wayward mind and haphazard schooling, he has written more than 100 loosely related essays on artists, intellectuals and tyrants, mostly of the 20th century—a crash course in modern history and culture. His selection is idiosyncratic, and his structure organic, like the movement of his own thoughts: “a trail of clarities variously illuminating a dark sea of unrelenting turbulence.” These... http://www.observer.com/node/36921#comments Style Albert Camus Book Review Evelyn Waugh Jean-Paul Sartre Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:00:00 -0400 http://www.observer.com/node/36921 http://www.observer.com/node/37982 <img src="/files/article/112805_article_naves.jpg" /><em>The Women of Giacometti</em>, an array of paintings and sculpture by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) on display at Pace Wildenstein, prompts a kind of yearning that has become familiar at the 57th Street branch of the gallery. Past shows bringing together Bonnard and Rothko, de Kooning and Dubuffet, Mondrian and Ad Reinhardt, and the near-holy trinity of Hans Arp, Isamu Noguchi and Alexander Calder were so good that many wished they could... http://www.observer.com/node/37982#comments Style Ad Reinhardt Currently Hanging Jean Arp Jean-Paul Sartre Pace Wildenstein LLC Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.observer.com/node/37982 http://www.observer.com/node/48142 <p>I'm not sure how I feel at present about all the plays this fall wrestling with the tragedy of Sept. 11. One is Recent Tragic Events , a soap opera with a twist; another, Portraits , is a solemn affair; and the one I just caught, the well-received Omnium Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, is a dark comedy, set at a fashionable dinner party from hell.</p> My uncertainty about the 9/11 dramas has... http://www.observer.com/node/48142#comments Style Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros At the Theater Christopher Hitchens Jean-Paul Sartre Palestine Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:00:00 -0400 http://www.observer.com/node/48142 http://www.observer.com/node/43349 <p>In the summer of 1949, a 22-year-old graduate student from the University of Chicago arrived in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Sorbonne. His name was Herbert Lust, a self-described "farm boy from Indiana" who had been orphaned at the age of nine. "I was at that time among the top scholars from the University of Chicago," Mr. Lust writes, "the youngest ever to receive the prestigious M.A. in mathematics and...</p> http://www.observer.com/node/43349#comments Style A Critic's View Alberto Giacometti André Breton Herbert Lust Jean-Paul Sartre Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:00:00 -0400 http://www.observer.com/node/43349