Books & the Arts

Who Didn’t Kill JFK?

Who Didn’t Kill JFK? Who Didn’t Kill JFK?

Kennedy’s presidency and assassination seem more elusive as the decades pass.

Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gage

Shelf Life

Shelf Life Shelf Life

How did something as trivial as spam end up on the forefront of cyberwar?

Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Saler

Surviving the Moment

Surviving the Moment Surviving the Moment

Do our financial wizards, like vampires, leave no reflection in the mirror of art?

Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

The Fungibility of Air

The Fungibility of Air The Fungibility of Air

Real estate has become an extractive industry, mining the air for property.

Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin

Justin Timberlake’s Union Tour

Justin Timberlake’s Union Tour Justin Timberlake’s Union Tour

JT’s backup dancers have made history by winning a union contract for touring artists.

Dec 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jessica Weisberg

Linda Tirado Is Not a Hoax

Linda Tirado Is Not a Hoax Linda Tirado Is Not a Hoax

The author of "Why I Make Terrible Decisions" discovers the dark side of Internet fame.

Dec 11, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: 100 Years of Writing About Marcel Proust’s ‘Almost Wizard Power’

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: 100 Years of Writing About Marcel Proust’s ‘Almost Wizard Power’ This Week in ‘Nation’ History: 100 Years of Writing About Marcel Proust’s ‘Almost Wizard Power’

Proust, a reviewer wrote in 1921, “may not be what his hero set out to be in his childhood, the greatest writer in the world, but he is one of those.”

Dec 7, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What Third Way Reveals About the Beltway

What Third Way Reveals About the Beltway What Third Way Reveals About the Beltway

Eric on coffee table books and Reed on the problem with centrism-for-centrism's-sake.

Dec 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson

Plainspoken: On Mark Morris

Plainspoken: On Mark Morris Plainspoken: On Mark Morris

How a choreographer’s love for the basic truths of the body has remained uncompromising.

Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss

Helios Helios

Strong horses, Percherons, bred for imperturbability and speed: Aethon, Eous, Pyrois, Phlegon, what names to call a conflagration by. Two decades with the force, and you’d little use for people, but horses, that was a different matter: strong horses, swift as shadows lengthening across the tile bed, a father could not hold them, how could a god.

Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Jernigan

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