Human Rights in History Human Rights in History
Human rights emerged not in the 1940s but the 1970s, and on the ruins of prior dreams.
Aug 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
A Cinema of Refusal: On Pedro Costa A Cinema of Refusal: On Pedro Costa
In his Letters from Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa treats the balance of form and content as a moral imperative.
Aug 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century); Ch-ch-ch-changes: Artists Talk about Teaching; Curating and the Educational Turn
Aug 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Pursuit of Happiness Pursuit of Happiness
Christopher Nolan's Inception; Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime; Samuel Maoz's Lebanon
Aug 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
After Sappho (The Volcano) After Sappho (The Volcano)
The clouds mock me with their mimicry of continental land-masses. Chimerae. An atmospheric shield of tiny silicates separates the mother from her sons, roses from wholesalers.
Aug 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Tony Judt: 1948–2010 Tony Judt: 1948–2010
The Nation mourns the passing of Tony Judt, a historian and intellectual whose acumen, courage and range are renowned, profound and an inspiration.
Aug 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eyal Press
Change Comes to Nixonland Change Comes to Nixonland
Will the Nixon Library actually portray Watergate accurately?
Jul 29, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Changing Places Changing Places
The double book-keeping of Christopher Hitchens.
Jul 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan
Breaking News Breaking News
Amid a conflicting report a nuthatch fetches a black fly, dips its plume in stagnant pool. This is a sky drawn, grafted, rescued, not a bath of vapors an afternoon shutters with counterfeit meaning. It is just an incident within a field of possibility, something periodic and bruised, one location in which we grip that instant of contact. Upstream a scarecrow is ragged in the wounding, a music of terror barely rises above the slopes, reft with nothing but its melody's radius, the slow ancient call of the bird in the distant flicker.
Jul 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Gagnon
A Wedge Against Tyranny A Wedge Against Tyranny
Franklin Roosevelt v. the Supreme Court.
Jul 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell