Comforting Vacuums Comforting Vacuums
In Stories We Tell, actor turned director Sarah Polley interrogates her past, revealing that our stories are our dearest form of property.
Jul 29, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
Little Boxes Little Boxes
Micro-apartments have become trendy in planning circles, but their austerity is just another limit on the aspirations of the poor.
Jul 29, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
In Our Orbit: A Tolerance for Ambiguity In Our Orbit: A Tolerance for Ambiguity
In The Good Spy, Kai Bird documents the life of CIA agent Robert Ames, a sincere and unlikely mediator in the Middle East.
Jul 29, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Cecilia D’Anastasio
Great War: The Insane and Familiar ‘War Madness’ of 1914 Great War: The Insane and Familiar ‘War Madness’ of 1914
"About nothing does the mob forget so quickly as about war."
Jul 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Blinded Me with Balance: How the US Media Get Science Coverage Wrong (& How They Can Get It Right) Blinded Me with Balance: How the US Media Get Science Coverage Wrong (& How They Can Get It Right)
Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on the media’s coverage of climate change.
Jul 21, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Writers or Missionaries? Writers or Missionaries?
A reporter’s journey involves writing with a sense of history and without false consolation.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is as modest and patient an act of daredevilry as has ever been achieved on film.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Bastille Day, Individualism and the Concept of Progress—in 1939 Bastille Day, Individualism and the Concept of Progress—in 1939
Reflections on the meaning of the French Revolution in the shadow of Adolf Hitler.
Jul 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
In Politics and Art, ‘Stories Are Dangerous’ In Politics and Art, ‘Stories Are Dangerous’
In fact, says theater director Anne Bogart, stories can be “fascistic.”
Jul 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Savan
Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James
“Have you a city that smells worse than Akron?”
Jul 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner