Books & the Arts

Crash Landings: Paul Krugman’s Depression Economics Crash Landings: Paul Krugman’s Depression Economics

Reviewing Paul Krugman's visionary book The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Bernard Avishai

Happy Thoughts!: The Poetry of Kevin Davies Happy Thoughts!: The Poetry of Kevin Davies

Poet Kevin Davies asks: are you better off than you were 13,000 years ago?

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

Waste Management Waste Management

Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, plus The Class and Coraline.

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Dust in a Word Dust in a Word

We go in and out of doors that's who we are next question? What rules? I never understood just what or what not The plan is the mind whose hand how far And so more than you know than you'll ever

Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Clark Coolidge

The Tattoo Archipelago The Tattoo Archipelago

The taxonomy of Russian criminal tattoos.

Feb 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Megan Buskey

Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir

Images from the graphic novel about the 1982 Lebanon War.

Feb 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

The Jazz Singer The Jazz Singer

Hollywood's first talking film marked the beginning of the end for some of cinema's biggest stars, but it did preserve the talent of Al Jolson on celluloid.

Feb 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Bakshy

A City Made of Waste A City Made of Waste

Across the border from San Diego in Tijuana, a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners, as an affluent city sheds its aging houses and its pieces are...

Jan 29, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Teddy Cruz

Let the Sun Shine In Let the Sun Shine In

The era of secrecy in government is officially over.

Jan 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Schlepics: The Fiction of Angel Wagenstein Schlepics: The Fiction of Angel Wagenstein

Angel Wagenstein and the evolution of modern Jewish storytelling.

Jan 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb

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