Inquisitions Inquisitions
From Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, tales of the Devil and wise women, torturers and the tortured.
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano
The Age of Paine The Age of Paine
It was Tom Paine, ink-stained wretch and citizen of the world, who first roused American patriots to action.
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols
Women’s Poetry Women’s Poetry
I, too, dislike it. However, I was trying to not think when out of the gaping wound of the car-detailing garage (smells like metallic sex) came a Nissan GT-R fitted with an oversized spoiler. Backing out sounded like clearing the throat of god. A gold snake zizzed around the license plate. Sunburst hubcaps, fancy undercarriage installation casting a pool of violet light on the pocked pavement of gum blots. Was it this that filled me with desire?
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Daisy Fried
Return of the Fabulous Return of the Fabulous
In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.
May 27, 2009 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski
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