Books & the Arts

Things as They Are Things as They Are

Lee Chang-dong's Poetry, Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are, Ron Howard's The Dilemma

Feb 3, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Dan Bell, RIP Dan Bell, RIP

On the late Daniel Bell, the very archetype of a committed liberal intellectual, and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, plus reader mail.

Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

The Return of the Culture Wars

The Return of the Culture Wars The Return of the Culture Wars

As before, hypocrites are lining their coffers by pandering to ignorance and xenophobia.

Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Doug Harvey

The Weasel’s Tooth: On W.B. Yeats

The Weasel’s Tooth: On W.B. Yeats The Weasel’s Tooth: On W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats’s poems on Ireland contemplate failures: not of poetry but of public life in all its forms.

Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Merrill Gilfillan’s The Bark of the Dog and The Warbler Road; Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet.

Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Ballad of John and J.D.: On John Lennon and J.D. Salinger The Ballad of John and J.D.: On John Lennon and J.D. Salinger

Mark David Chapman was carrying a copy of The Catcher in the Rye when he shot John Lennon. The murder was a collision of cultures.

Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

Languaging Languaging

Can a second language provide us with a new self?

Jan 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

Slacker Friday Slacker Friday

Eric Alterman rounds up the best of New York, confronts Reagan's Alzheimer's and reader mail.

Jan 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Obama: Triangulation 2.0?

Obama: Triangulation 2.0? Obama: Triangulation 2.0?

In year three, will Obama heed the lessons of Clinton or Reagan?

Jan 20, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman

Library Man: On Claude Lévi-Strauss

Library Man: On Claude Lévi-Strauss Library Man: On Claude Lévi-Strauss

With a sharp eye for cultural patterns and a keen feel for the shape of a story, Claude Lévi-Strauss was a poet in the laboratory of anthropology.

Jan 19, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney

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