Books & the Arts

A Minor Complaint

A Minor Complaint A Minor Complaint

Akhil Sharma’s Family Life is not a model minority story.

Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Toral Gajarawala

Apostles of Growth

Apostles of Growth Apostles of Growth

Capitalism’s newest critics offer a groundbreaking account of slavery, but does their economic history add up?

Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk

Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot

So regret her divined blemishes, smoking, drinking, having dated the wrong men, the wrong sex: Sugar’s top-lit in the spotlight (breasts, breasts) and what could be more innocent than someone begging to be loved?

Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Trudgeon

Puerto Rico: Land of the Noble/Valiant Lord! Puerto Rico: Land of the Noble/Valiant Lord!

We’re a fleshy circle of beached bachelorettes, tramp-stamps fading, bent over mini Boursins and Bordeaux brought down from the room on top of a resort on top of a reef: the garlic-breathed fruit of four thousand years of human habitation, from the good old Aceramics, the Taíno, fluorescing, and tireless reincarnations of colonizers to the new ground-sloths, the new giant island shrew: you, sunburnt, evolved, sipping rum and corn syrup from a purple plastic penis straw— barbasco to sacred vomit sticksv to Tylenol factories to this sludge-filled veiny verisimilitude— wondering how you landed yourself here: bridesmaid, la isla, Borinquen, a fortified interrobang trimmed in a Whore-Glo faux-feather boa as Russian businessmen offer you their warm Coronas, when all your life you’ve just been trying to make some progress.

Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Trudgeon

Haterz Gonna Hate?

Haterz Gonna Hate? Haterz Gonna Hate?

There are limits to what the law can do to police cyberabuse.

Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum

Calculators and Butterflies

Calculators and Butterflies Calculators and Butterflies

Italo Calvino’s Complete Cosmicomics thrives on the tension between ideas and art.

Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier

Billboards Billboards

   Florida I-95 America Needs a Faith Lift; a pregnant woman with a stem rose and a pointing, bearded God quoting Jeremiah quoting God; a gray, washed-out steak: What Vegetarians Eat When They Cheat— or was it what the Vegetables ate? You could see where the grease once shone on the old meat. Inside, the silence. —Tell me something.v —No, you! We unbutton our pants. Arms jiggling over fifty-five, thighs spread out on the seat and as far as the eye can see: thousands of carfulls of spreading thighs, the feel and smell of the seatbelt nylon, cricked trapezii. V a s e c t o m y. Oh, to feel your hand on my knee! A lone willow in the field: textbook, and the toxic cows, the steak itself gnawing beside the flesh-filled cars, the rootless wombs that drive themselves.

Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Trudgeon

Shelf Life

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Insurrections of the Mind thinks insurrections ought to happen only in the mind.

Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Corporate Media Companies Are the Real Winners in the 2014 Midterms

Corporate Media Companies Are the Real Winners in the 2014 Midterms Corporate Media Companies Are the Real Winners in the 2014 Midterms

Eric on this week’s concerts and Reed on how local TV stations boost their bottom lines with a deluge of election ads.

Nov 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/30/14?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/30/14? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/30/14?

What are interns reading for the week of 10/30/14?

Nov 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

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