Live Long and Prosper: Star Trek and More Live Long and Prosper: Star Trek and More
J.J. Abrams's Star Trek, Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours
May 27, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Vice: The Dispiriting Legacy of Dick Cheney Vice: The Dispiriting Legacy of Dick Cheney
Assessing the stealth, subterfuge and delusion of the Cheney vice presidency.
May 27, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Holmes
i am enCentering the amen New i am enCentering the amen New
for Peter Gizzi crush tamarind and the brown thirst of Quivira the hollow sound of the silence of travail the tipp iron toe of aventura coronado . x -plore for the first time like in imagen childhood the time of the world of the mesa. but this one is "real" the opponents are vivid & feather'd & red not one of these is yr father here the world that we thought of as round after all becomes arid & flat in its trail full of deep stony echoes & the steep sound of phonemes as if God is a well where there is no language of water. no meaning of silver of mineral flood that we know in our langurous rivers . but here is only the archer wind . is this why we are hearin feathers? . the future sits across from us squat & vivid on a burn -ing horse. not a cross. w/its arrows there are no orchards here. no wine no other kind of time for these sorrows
May 27, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Kamau Brathwaite
Steve Earle’s Labor of Love Steve Earle’s Labor of Love
The music on Townes, Steve Earle's tribute to Townes Van Zandt, is simple and literally homespun. There is sinew to this music, and blood in the words.
May 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles P. Pierce
Chop Shops Chop Shops
Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.
May 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes
Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Elisabeth Sifton
No Ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen No Ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen
In Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire crystallized a new feeling: the private life of the public turn.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Comfort and Agony: Jennifer Moxley’s Clampdown Comfort and Agony: Jennifer Moxley’s Clampdown
Instead of offering healing or empowerment, the poetry of Jennifer Moxley explores vulnerability and "wrong life."
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Back Talk: Philip Alcabes Back Talk: Philip Alcabes
Epidemiologist Philip Alcabes discusses the social fears surrounding epidemics and why risk can't be eliminated from life.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
If art is a product of the mind, and the mind a product of evolution, is art a product of evolution?
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz