Books & the Arts

Cornered

Cornered Cornered

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's 12th & Delaware; Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's Restrepo; Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me; Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are Al...

Jun 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Everyday Oblique The Everyday Oblique

How and why do we use things like codes, jokes and slang to mask our meanings?

Jun 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

Ardor and the Abyss

Ardor and the Abyss Ardor and the Abyss

Emily Dickinson's reclusiveness was a way of protecting the world from herself.

Jun 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach

Retreat to Subsistence Retreat to Subsistence

Could the introduction of genetically modified genes into Mexico's landrace corns lead to their extinction?

Jun 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Gabriel García Márquez's Clandestine in Chile; Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget; Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street

Jun 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril? The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril?

A progressive moment was supposed to follow Obama's election. Robert Kuttner's A Presidency in Peril asks where it went.

Jun 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman

Feeling Groovy… Feeling Groovy…

On Summerstage in Central Park and Alison Pace. 

Jun 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Undefined

Undefined Undefined

Anthony Julius's Trials of the Diaspora and the myth of the new anti-Semitism.

Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Antony Lerman

Anti- Anti-

In The Ask, Sam Lipsyte never ventures beyond the comfort zone of his eloquently damaged protagonist.

Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / J.M. Tyree

Robot Rock Robot Rock

Video may have killed the radio star, but the vocoder liberates her voice.

Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / J. Gabriel Boylan

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