Fatherland: On Héctor Abad Faciolince Fatherland: On Héctor Abad Faciolince
Oblivion re-creates the life of one of the many innocent victims of the Colombian conflict.
Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Volpi
From ‘The Split’ From ‘The Split’
Had you entered the thicket in darkness, had the brambles been swiping your face as you passed, had you been mid-life, not in haze but in crisis, had you no other lens but damage to gaze through, had you—thwacked by branches—entered your true love as your true love cried out with her palm on your face, her heel on the small of your back in the darkness, you might have removed the mask from your visage, the glass from the casement, the scythe from your fist. * We were just two drunk kids parallel parking in the dark, you saying, Are you the one with the low down? Under the burnt-out street lamp us kids. Heron coasted by the house, trailing those long legs. No, never tasted heron meat. Dawn: through the Lincoln Tunnel the mammals and their metal, headlighting 42nd Street. By the way, you weren’t born in Omaha. You said your wife changed her clothes at the wedding site because it was too cold in the car. I heard your anecdote, I learned what was an event to you.
Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Susan Wheeler
The Reaches of Stringency: On Philip Larkin The Reaches of Stringency: On Philip Larkin
Self-congratulation, deceptions and the art of failure.
Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood
Daylight Answers: On ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Daylight Answers: On ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
A massacre in Aurora and the cinema of social hallucination.
Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3248 Puzzle No. 3248
Don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Aug 7, 2012 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Uncertain Fate of Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Lifers The Uncertain Fate of Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Lifers
What will Pennsylvania do with prisoners like Sharon Wiggins, who has been locked up for more than forty years for a crime she committed at 17?
Aug 7, 2012 / Liliana Segura and Matt Stroud
It’s Still Party Time at National Conventions It’s Still Party Time at National Conventions
The House has narrowly interpreted a 2007 ethics law in a way that will allow lobbyist-funded parties for lawmakers at the nominating conventions.
Aug 7, 2012 / George Zornick
Can the Caravan of Peace End the War on Drugs? Can the Caravan of Peace End the War on Drugs?
More than 100 activists are traveling from the Mexican border to Washington, DC, to push the US to reconsider failed drug policies.
Aug 7, 2012 / Tom Hayden
Ari Berman: Harry Reid’s Jedi Mind Tricks Ari Berman: Harry Reid’s Jedi Mind Tricks
All the appalled commentary about Reid’s so-called ethical lapse has crowed out the real question: What was he trying to achieve?
Aug 7, 2012 / Press Room