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These lost stars tomorrow will they be there when we wake in our sorrow, is it us so lost in the moment, is it today we look to flower If it were because the time we saw and…

May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi

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May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi

Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism

The child of late empire, who transformed the field of area studies, lived a life beyond boundaries.

May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman

The Annie Dillard Show

The Annie Dillard Show The Annie Dillard Show

In felicitous language, she enables us to see the world afresh. But there is always a distance, a sense of performance.

May 18, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Donald Trump in Wilkes Barre

The Soul of the Tea Party The Soul of the Tea Party

The Koch brothers may have paid for some buses, but Fox News and talk radio filled them with bodies.

May 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David Bromwich

A Blues for Albert Murray

A Blues for Albert Murray A Blues for Albert Murray

His name was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so.

May 16, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Chatterton Williams

The Anthropocene Truism

The Anthropocene Truism The Anthropocene Truism

Humans and the environment have never been separable. But what does the idea mean for politics?

May 12, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Katrina Forrester

Don DeLillo’s American Dream

Don DeLillo’s American Dream Don DeLillo’s American Dream

His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.

May 11, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jon Baskin

Purple Rain

A Violent Room A Violent Room

Why did the movie Purple Rain want or perhaps need to produce and reprise a particular fantasy of interraciality?

May 6, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

‘Goethe Dies’: A Brief and Headlong Book

‘Goethe Dies’: A Brief and Headlong Book ‘Goethe Dies’: A Brief and Headlong Book

Thomas Bernhard makes intricate fiction from the grit and putty of life.

May 5, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier

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