Books & the Arts

The Age of American Shadow Power

The Age of American Shadow Power The Age of American Shadow Power

Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.

Apr 11, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Juan Cole

Willy Loman’s Secret Willy Loman’s Secret

Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.

Apr 11, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel

Among the Tufted Canes: Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

Among the Tufted Canes: Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry Among the Tufted Canes: Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

Geoffrey Brock’s anthology of twentieth-century Italian poetry offers the risk of a counter-eloquence.

Apr 11, 2012 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach

Five Poems Five Poems

Adrienne Rich, 1929–2012

Apr 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Adrienne Rich

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.

Apr 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney

Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira

Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira

Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.

Apr 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes

End of the Line? End of the Line?

“Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas billionaire who has been the biggest backer to a group supporting Newt Gingrich, said this week that Mr. Gingrich had reached ‘the end of his line’ in his bid for the presidency.” —New York Times   So Newt’s coming closer to facing defeat? His main sugar daddy’s no longer so sweet. And Newt never was: why, when he had the power Of all of that sugar, he still sounded sour.

Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin

A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller

A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller

A nineteenth-century feminist's exceptional life.

Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti

Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti

Opposites collapse in the work of the Shaman-Showman of contemporary Italian art.

Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Inescapable Smallness: On Jenny Erpenbeck Inescapable Smallness: On Jenny Erpenbeck

A young German novelist explores the logic of powerlessness.

Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Tristram Wolff

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