The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay
How the "Lively Arts" became "The Media."
Mar 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Lewis Lapham
A Body on the Gears A Body on the Gears
At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.
Mar 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
Dimensions of the Abyss Dimensions of the Abyss
The visual art of the Black Atlantic explores an ambivalence that exceeds double consciousness.
Mar 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Remember 11/4/08? Remember 11/4/08?
A new participatory documentary captures the excitement of Obama's election.
Mar 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman
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
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