Bridging It Bridging It
With the help of a collector, Sonny Rollins has taken the curating of his career in a new direction.
Mar 31, 2009 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams
The One Oval Window The One Oval Window
The surface of this street is sweet enough to lick. There is usually a fee for sacrifice, ladies, and mine is a store for rent. Terrace danger cannot be traded for river danger or danger danger. In this light, the clouds.
Mar 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Kronovet
Green Acres: Lost in the Amazon Green Acres: Lost in the Amazon
Percy Harrison Fawcett went to the Amazon looking for paradise. He never returned.
Mar 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Back Talk: Michelle Goldberg Back Talk: Michelle Goldberg
Journalist Michelle Goldberg discusses the past fifty years of global reproductive issues.
Mar 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
The Wait: On Vladimir Sorokin The Wait: On Vladimir Sorokin
Elaine Blair In The Queue, Vladimir Sorokin offers a biting and hilarious portrait of a central ritual of Soviet life.
Mar 25, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair
The Kinsey Report The Kinsey Report
The publication of the Kinsey report means for the for the first time that frank talk about sex is no longer the sole domain of the church and psychoanalysts.
Mar 25, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Martin Gumpert
A Nameless Vocation: On Fanny Howe A Nameless Vocation: On Fanny Howe
In The Winter Sun, Fanny Howe proves to be a reluctant and rebellious memoirist.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Antica e Moderna: The Poetry of Umberto Saba Antica e Moderna: The Poetry of Umberto Saba
The poems of Umberto Saba let tradition speak to and through modernity.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart
There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing
An anthology of true crime writing appeals to the culture vulture--and the plain old vulture--in us.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
The collapse of journalism threatens democracy itself--that's why we need a government rescue.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney