Books & the Arts

Irritable Reachings: On John Keats

Irritable Reachings: On John Keats Irritable Reachings: On John Keats

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.

Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach

No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War

How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.

Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer

Waltz Unchained

Waltz Unchained Waltz Unchained

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse

Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Putting Stories Into the World

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 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 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’ ‘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 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

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