An Oscar for America’s Hubris An Oscar for America’s Hubris
What a shame that the one movie about the Iraq war that has a chance of being viewed by a large worldwide audience should be so disappointing.
Mar 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
Noted. Noted.
Stuart Klawans on radical filmmaker Leo Hurwitz; John Nichols on the primary fight for Blanche Lincoln's Senate seat.
Mar 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Vision or Blindness? Vision or Blindness?
In Jacques Audiard's <i>A Prophet</i>, clairvoyance has its limits.
Mar 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Heroic Impatience Heroic Impatience
The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.
Mar 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Diego Gambetta
A Life’s Sentence A Life’s Sentence
Maureen Howard's most recent novel is The Rags of Time.
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maureen Howard
Back Talk: Martha C. Nussbaum Back Talk: Martha C. Nussbaum
A conversation with the author of From Disgust to Humanity about various forms of opposition to gay equality.
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Dancing to the New Music Dancing to the New Music
What will become of the poem and the novel in this new century of rapid transformation?
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / E. Ethelbert Miller
In Disobedient Rooms In Disobedient Rooms
Pre-emptive evolution, the voices of time, infodumps: the science fiction of J.G. Ballard offers not prescience but present-sense.
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / China Miéville
The Bubble and the Globe The Bubble and the Globe
Life in America is once more approaching John Ashbery, from one drifty moment to the next.
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover