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
Mahler’s Body Mahler’s Body
Gustav Mahler's embrace of Germanness and battles with anti-Semitism.
Jun 24, 2009 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff
Iron Hans Iron Hans
Novelist Hans Fallada resented the constraints of the Nazi era but did not desist in his craft.
Jun 24, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Lytal
Ground Control Ground Control
Hollowed-out bones are more buoyant, like the stray dog wagging its tail while following us back to the car. You asked if we could keep it; I said that whatever gets buried eventually climbs out of its hole, and just because something can float doesn't mean it can swim. So I'll hold this snackpack close to my chest as we head toward open water, especially now that meals have been discontinued on most long-distance flights, but people still want to fly.
Jun 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Alan Gilbert
Touring Empire’s Ruins: From Detroit to the Amazon Touring Empire’s Ruins: From Detroit to the Amazon
The empire ends with a pullout. Not from Iraq, but from Detroit.
Jun 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
The Prison Dilemma: Getting Past the Punitive Turn The Prison Dilemma: Getting Past the Punitive Turn
Anne-Marie Cusac examines the punitive turn in the criminal justice system.
Jun 17, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Perkinson
Seed Projects: The Fiction of Alejandro Zambra Seed Projects: The Fiction of Alejandro Zambra
Does Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai mark the end of an era in Chilean literature?
Jun 17, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes