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
Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag
According to Cohen, half of Russia looks back to Joseph Stalin as a great leader and the other half as a genocidal murderer. In his new book, he examines the ongoing struggle to ...
Oct 19, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation on Grit TV
Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This… Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This…
American culture from Saul Bellows to Janeane Garofalo to NPR.
Oct 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
A Passionate Reader: On David Markson A Passionate Reader: On David Markson
Remembering David Markson (1927–2010), whose playful novels pushed storytelling to the edge of understanding.
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern
In his paintings and travels, Paul Gauguin sought a corner of himself that was still unknown.
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Chiefest Word The Chiefest Word
The most best, winter oyster, what rings along the nerve. Deepest seeking, heart-most root. Zinc and copper. Clawed foot. What streaks across the synapse, harnessed to a moment. Magnetic zero amplified. Every-any-thing wild, beast that beats or blurs or bothers. The newt’s eye, needle in a socket open wide uninking on the universe. A steady bleed. Ever most. Bestest bet. Cosmos.
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Catherine Wing