Books & the Arts

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Breaking the Silence’s Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000–2010.

Dec 5, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Eyal Press

The Gift-Giving Guide Part III, More Stuff The Gift-Giving Guide Part III, More Stuff

Check out new releases from Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley and Peter Frampton.

Nov 30, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Shaken and Stirred Shaken and Stirred

Some details in Skyfall are just too silly to accept.

Nov 29, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

How Mergermania Is Destroying Book Publishing

How Mergermania Is Destroying Book Publishing How Mergermania Is Destroying Book Publishing

The merger of Penguin and Random House is part of a trend that has been deadly for literary authors and serious nonfiction.

Nov 28, 2012 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin

A Woman’s War: Talking with Elizabeth Herman A Woman’s War: Talking with Elizabeth Herman

The twenty-something photographer talks about the changing face of journalism and giving women around the world a voice.

Nov 28, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Lucy McKeon

Young and the Restless: On Brigham Young Young and the Restless: On Brigham Young

How the American Moses became America’s first spiritual manager in the wilderness of Scripture-infused capitalism.

Nov 28, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann

A Brutal Peace: On the Postwar Expulsions of Germans A Brutal Peace: On the Postwar Expulsions of Germans

Did postwar population transfers complete a project of ethnic cleansing started by Hitler?

Nov 28, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Tara Zahra

Econ-Geo: On Enrico Moretti Econ-Geo: On Enrico Moretti

Geoeconomic arguments about jobs smuggle in neoliberal economics under the cover of geography.

Nov 28, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Catherine Tumber

Writing Without a Mattress: On Louise Glück Writing Without a Mattress: On Louise Glück

Louise Glück’s poems aim to get to the bottom of her experience without making an idol of “reality” or brute suffering.

Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Robert Boyers

Ragged, Unkempt, Strange: On William Faulkner Ragged, Unkempt, Strange: On William Faulkner

For all the ways it is rife with tenderness, fury and ugliness, William Faulkner’s fiction is stubbornly persistent in its artistry.

Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott

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