Operation Rollback: Wal-Mart’s World of Business Operation Rollback: Wal-Mart’s World of Business
How did Wal-Mart become so successful that its merciless economic model could threaten its own bottom line?
Sep 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jefferson Decker
A Domestic Existentialist: On Mercè Rodoreda A Domestic Existentialist: On Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
Sep 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Wimmer
Right On Right On
Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?
Sep 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Speak as Little as Possible: On Clarice Lispector Speak as Little as Possible: On Clarice Lispector
Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.
Sep 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Aviv
The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here
The glittering "spotlight" at a Toronto film festival is a reflection of Israel's desire to avoid scrutiny for its actions in Gaza.
Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Klein
People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down
From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.
Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
Trade Deficit Trade Deficit
Do you have any friends, the darkness asks, and for a moment you're surprised: you expected salt, maybe, or terror. China has some wisdom to offer on this point: Learn how to make a lot of things that are basically useless and also a few things that matter, then flood the markets. The trick is that once the markets are flooded, you must create new markets. Darkness does this all the time, knocking at your door: Do you have any mercy, it asks, any weapons, any sugar, any stone.
Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / G.C. Waldrep
The Female Gourmet The Female Gourmet
A movie about women's struggle to express their gifts through work? Delicious.
Sep 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Cornucopia Blues Cornucopia Blues
How will the good-food revolution move beyond its evangelical phase?
Sep 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Brent Cunningham
Aracataca and Sucre Aracataca and Sucre
Will narrowed on a single object and fixed in the face of adversity--such is the recurring story of Gabriel García Márquez's work and life.
Sep 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz