Ibex Have Evolved for Life at the Top Ibex Have Evolved for Life at the Top
When we say specimen we mean you. By you we mean whatever collection of night sweats and shopping lists accumulates in the bed by dawn. When we say dark we mean pitch, moonless, starless, don't even open your eyes. When we say he has your eyes we mean we see nothing of you there. If you want someone to come for you, you'll have to cry harder than that. If you want to be prepared, practice: blizzard, fire, famine. Your shoes or your coat? Your cat or your dog? Sister, daughter, mother, wife?
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Lisa Olstein
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, Robert Darnton's Poetry and the Police, Jeremy Harding's Mother Country
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
The Impasse: On Martin Solares The Impasse: On Martin Solares
The Black Minutes, a nuanced neo-noir, conveys how narco-violence has leached the Mexican justice system of meaning.
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Wimmer
In Our Orbit: Dean’s Way In Our Orbit: Dean’s Way
Ari Berman's Herding Donkeys shows how Howard Dean's unsuccessful bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination was the foundation for Barack Obama's victory in 2008.
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Kate Murphy
Ed Schultz, Laura Ingraham, Crude Comment, Classy Apology Ed Schultz, Laura Ingraham, Crude Comment, Classy Apology
The MSNBC host has brought the voices of working men and women to the fore and improved the discourse for the better. That's no defense for a "vile and inappropriate...
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols
West Bank Stories West Bank Stories
Obama has paid an enormous price for pushing Israel to keep promises it has already made to freeze settlement expansion, and for what?
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
That Seventies Show That Seventies Show
The continuous readjustment of expectations downward: For historians like Jefferson Cowie and Judith Stein, that was the key experience of the 1970s.
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
Stele Stele
Vertigo, itself in air small hands there are also in pattern becoming scattered shifts the axes, chances the stiff wind this other world that almost visits standing in an empty glass the light like crystal I cut myself on air that finds its difference here open air, the kind sharing across the fields its walking song
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Cole Swensen
The Magic Mountain: The 2010 New York Film Festival The Magic Mountain: The 2010 New York Film Festival
Lee Chang-Dong's Poetry, Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job and other films
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Stephen Cohen on Stalin’s Forgotten Victims Stephen Cohen on Stalin’s Forgotten Victims
Stephen F. Cohen, author of The Victims Return, joins Morning Joe to discuss Stalin's atrocities, his contradictory legacy today and its implications for contemporary Russian ...
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Morning Joe