David S. Kurnick
Sedaris' Barrel Overflows With Fun
I first came across David Sedaris' name in a collection of "alternative new queer writing" edited by novelist Dennis Cooper
Thief, Hustler, National Treasure
Genet: A Biography By Edmund White Knopf, $35 P erhaps more than any other writer of this century, Jean Genet
M(oronic) Butterfly
Directed by David Cronenberg; starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone; Warner Brothers; Rated R I n "M. Butterfly," East meets
Civil Rights, Not Civilization
R espected government professor and resident Harvard whiner Harvey Mansfield recently delivered his judgement of homosexuals: they are "irresponsible," "unhappy,"
Cirque du Soleil Offers A Vision of a Better Bigtop
Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco at Fan Pier through October 3 T here are moments during Cirque du Soleil's "Saltimbanco" when
Parties and Poetry
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O' Hara by Brand Goch Random House Press, 30.00 Frank O'Hara's short
Bernhard's Second Book Mostly Cold, Haphazard Vignettes
"Love is the only shocking fact left on the fact of the earth," Sandra Bernhard declares near the beginning of
Middle Passages
I n Caryl Phillips' work, people are rarely at home. Caribbean citizens go to England in search of employment; British
Pedro Almodovar Offers A Funny, Flaming 'Desire'
"Law of Desire," the last film Pedro Almodovar made before his international hit "Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Sex, Violence and Cigarettes on the Seine
In 1983, Richard Gere and Valeric Kaprisky starred in a silly movie named "Breathless." Gere plays a preening L.A. thief,
Brutal Facts, Beautiful Fiction
W riting and mourning seem like naturally inimical activities. How does one attain the detachment necessary to write while still
Obligation: Rodriguez's Tortured Identity
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez Viking Penguin, $21.00 Ten years ago, Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez Grumbles about Life
In addition to the stark world view he presents in his latest literary offering Days of Obligation, Richard Rodriguez had
Scholars Debate Responsibility
Six prominent Black academics heatedly debated the role of the intellectual in Black communities at a packed ARCO Forum last
25 Years After His Assassination, Malcolm X's Ideas Are Revisited
Malcolm X: In Our Own Image edited by Joe Wood St. Martin's Press, $18.95 More than 25 years after the
