Fleeting Exchanges: Helen Levitt Remembered Fleeting Exchanges: Helen Levitt Remembered
Helen Levitt's idiosyncratic photographs.
Jul 15, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl
The Lost Years: On Haiti The Lost Years: On Haiti
The mutating tensions and alliances of postoccupation Haiti.
Jul 15, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Madison Smartt Bell
Mixing History and Desire: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy Mixing History and Desire: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy
A new collection of C.P. Cavafy's beautiful, musical poems.
Jul 15, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis
Ghost Poem Ghost Poem
The story begins Waiting for the trick When after life Death ends The night goes on The sick sea As much as possible Comes to me In the form of But not alive In the words from But not dead We wed or end Swallowed by Sick with And again
Jul 15, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Laura Moriarty
Fuel Fuel
A new documentary explores how alternative and sustainable energies can reduce our country's and the world's addictive dependence on fossil fuels.
Jul 14, 2009 / Books & the Arts / YouTube
Hubbub and Stillness: The 2009 Venice Biennale Hubbub and Stillness: The 2009 Venice Biennale
The funky chaos of the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Jul 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Back Talk: Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor Back Talk: Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
A conversation with the authors of On Kindness.
Jul 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Off Dead Center: William Appleman Williams Off Dead Center: William Appleman Williams
William Appleman Williams and the tragedy of American diplomacy.
Jul 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
With Mercy for the Greedy With Mercy for the Greedy
Why do Frederick Seidel's champions consistently transform his weaknesses into virtues?
Jun 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Just a Game? Just a Game?
Agnès Varda's The Beaches of Agnès, Havana Marking's Afghan Star
Jun 24, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans