The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering
Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance is a demanding and flawed attempt to regard the pain of others through photographs.
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frances Richard
Burning Down the House: On Ed Koch Burning Down the House: On Ed Koch
Ed Koch rebuilt New York City by demolishing its long-running experiments in urban liberalism.
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp
Epitaph for Ben Sonnenberg Epitaph for Ben Sonnenberg
But still! being but a tree one cannot ask them pines touched by his sleeve's passing where to go I know not when he was buried glancing over the land going up that road ("to wait for a faraway person" sounding like the word for "pines") under the pines when spring came along the road my beloved prince he will have been perfect while the shining days are piled up how strangely awful to utter it on the death and burial of one prince this is a song. This is a song on the death and burial of one prince to utter it how strangely awful while the shining days are piled up he will have been perfect my beloved prince when spring came along the road under the pines (the word for "pines" sounding like the word "to wait for a faraway person") going up that road, glancing over the land when he was buried I know not where to go pines touched by his sleeve's passing one cannot ask them being but a tree, but still!
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Anne Carson
It Was 32 Years Ago Today… It Was 32 Years Ago Today…
A new collection from Bruce Springsteen, a defense of Nancy Pelosi and a fresh angle on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nov 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Jay-Z Re-enters Kanye-Bush Fight: Katrina Was Like Selma Jay-Z Re-enters Kanye-Bush Fight: Katrina Was Like Selma
Jay-Z backs the message, if not the rhetoric, of racial challenges to George Bush's record.
Nov 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Melber
Between Hitler and Stalin Between Hitler and Stalin
In Bloodlands Timothy Snyder attempts to link the Holocaust to a syndrome of political killing endorsed by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
Nov 17, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Without Artifice: On William Brennan Without Artifice: On William Brennan
Justice William Brennan's watchword was human dignity, and to protect it he interpreted individual rights expansively.
Nov 17, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
The Merry-Go-Round: On Jack Anderson The Merry-Go-Round: On Jack Anderson
Poisoning the Press tells the tale of Jack Anderson's fall from muckraking hero to blustering pundit.
Nov 17, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Diane Simon
America’s Knowledge Deficit America’s Knowledge Deficit
We have increasingly substituted opinion and prejudice for science and reason.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin R. Barber
No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero began using only the female figure in her paintings to push back the limits of her world.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky