Putting Stories Into the World Putting Stories Into the World
Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.
Jan 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The Revolution Added Two Years: On Cairo The Revolution Added Two Years: On Cairo
How the neoliberal urban development schemes of the Mubarak regime have gained new life under the Muslim Brotherhood.
Dec 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel
Off-Key: On Paul Elie Off-Key: On Paul Elie
Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?
Dec 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
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clover flowers fleck to dirt withered ferns nuzzle furl plaid oak leaf mossy incline eaten leaf pinholes slunk rotted hemlocks crocus or lily-like leaves eclipse pond’s methane edges autumn drunken yellow jackets bees and reeds birch branch in beige sand wind peaks prods flower shadows wobble pronged bobbing filaments
Dec 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jess Mynes
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie; Andrey Platonov’s Happy Moscow
Dec 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
‘Django Unchained’: Quentin Tarantino’s Answer to Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ ‘Django Unchained’: Quentin Tarantino’s Answer to Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’
In one film, grateful black people; in the other, the vengeful ones.
Dec 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Watching ‘The House I Live In’ on Rikers Island Watching ‘The House I Live In’ on Rikers Island
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is on a mission to show his Sundance-award winning movie, The House I Live In, to prisoners across the country. On a Friday in December, he went to New Yor...
Dec 21, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Liliana Segura
Suspicious Minds: On Timothy Melley Suspicious Minds: On Timothy Melley
How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.
Dec 19, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
The Trembling Upper World: On Siegfried Kracauer The Trembling Upper World: On Siegfried Kracauer
The European émigré who became a philosopher of American cinema.
Dec 19, 2012 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Heroism, Hidden: On Ian Wallace Heroism, Hidden: On Ian Wallace
The Canadian artist who transformed the Vancouver art scene.
Dec 19, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky