Books & the Arts Archives

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

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

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’

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

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

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