Books & the Arts

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

Dear K Dear K

 

Mar 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Mark McMorris

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 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 MiƩville

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

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Charles Juliet's Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde; Matthew Spender's Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof: A Life in Letters and Documents; Zak Smith's We Did Porn:...

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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

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