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When you enter the room You destroy the room, the room You waited so long to enter— No: “to get into,” to be allowed To enter and so on. A nod To Kafka, existentialism, theories Of…
May 5, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Laura Mullen
The Roots of American Conservatism The Roots of American Conservatism
Why do the politics of free markets and cultural reaction keep returning like some Republican Freddy Krueger?
May 4, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
‘Weiner’: If They Cheer, or if They Jeer ‘Weiner’: If They Cheer, or if They Jeer
The outstanding political film of the 2016 presidential season is about the 2013 New York City mayoral race.
May 4, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
America’s Long Hangover America’s Long Hangover
How did Prohibition turn into a law-enforcement extravaganza?
Apr 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gage
How to Succeed on Broadway! How to Succeed on Broadway!
Why is Arthur Miller one of the most lauded American playwrights—and one of the most vilified?
Apr 20, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
Hume’s Call to Action Hume’s Call to Action
For philosophy to be effective, it has to understand the world in which it operates. David Hume brought history and politics to the realm of ideas.
Apr 20, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Richard Bourke
Can an Unfinished Piece of Art Also Be Complete? Can an Unfinished Piece of Art Also Be Complete?
An exhibit at the Met Breuer explores the differences between completing and finishing an artwork.
Apr 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Need of the Forgotten The Need of the Forgotten
The novelist and poet Carmen Boullosa talks about her obsession with lost stories and found textual objects, and how rereading gives books new faces.
Apr 8, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Bady
Hopes of Coexistence in Syria Hopes of Coexistence in Syria
Does Samar Yazbek’s diary of the Syrian civil war merely represent the dreams of an exile?
Apr 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel
My Erasures My Erasures
My erasures were featured. * I collected debris to sell as crash art, crush porn. * “Say goodbye to Lonesome George,” the last Galapagos tortoise. * I was a pushover for the laws o…
Apr 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout