Worn Muses Worn Muses
Nymphomaniac is Lars von Trier’s latest ode to titillation and traps.
Apr 8, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Shelf Life Shelf Life
How the literary critic Paul de Man turned evasiveness into authority.
Apr 8, 2014 / Books & the Arts / David Mikics
Gore Vidal: At 10, I Wanted to be Mickey Rooney Gore Vidal: At 10, I Wanted to be Mickey Rooney
How Mickey Rooney’s Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream changed Vidal’s life.
Apr 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
When Peter Matthiessen Was Silenced by his Publisher When Peter Matthiessen Was Silenced by his Publisher
How the cowardice of Viking Penguin kept the author’s In The Spirit of Crazy Horse out of print for seven years.
Apr 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
My Johannesburg My Johannesburg
The city and its landscape would not exist were it not for many violations against nature.
Apr 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Mark Gevisser
Past, Present, Futurism Past, Present, Futurism
The Guggenheim’s Futurism exhibition and the Whitney Biennial offer competing visions of present-mindedness.
Apr 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Taking It to the Square Taking It to the Square
Squarepop—public squares of refusal—is the broken madness of the world stood on its head.
Apr 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
What’s Behind the ‘Poor Door’? What’s Behind the ‘Poor Door’?
Inclusionary zoning laws are among the few tools left to ensure the creation of affordable housing.
Apr 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Mule Mule
The quiet country midnight got quieter. You said, “I hear snow,” and turned on the porch light. Carrot: pillow fight of light out the window. Winters passed. I brought you presents. I kept remembering your magic, hearing the deeper silence. Then one spring you sent everything back. Stick.
Apr 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Christina Robb
Not the Cesar Chavez I Knew Not the Cesar Chavez I Knew
A new film about the labor leader reduces him to a caricature and ignores his true strengths as an organizer.
Apr 1, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Marshall Ganz