Ceaselessly Opportuning: On Barbara Guest Ceaselessly Opportuning: On Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest's Collected Poems showcase her knack for catching sight of time in its act of escaping one's grasp.
Mar 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
A Nazi Zelig: Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones A Nazi Zelig: Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones
The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's fictive memoir of a Nazi SS officer, is intentionally sickening and an unquestionably brilliant success.
Mar 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
The GOP’s Hip-Hop Makeover The GOP’s Hip-Hop Makeover
Michael Steele's getting funky, frantically remixing the GOP message, in hopes of reaching new generation of conservative voters. Is anybody listening?
Mar 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ari Melber
The Politics of Pain The Politics of Pain
It is conceivable that torture will go on spreading underground until it is strong enough to break out once more and redouble the embitterments of classes and of races. If so, mank...
Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / V.G. Kiernan
V.G. Kiernan: Historian of Humankind V.G. Kiernan: Historian of Humankind
Remembering a historian of the left, an ideological warrior against empire, witness to India's anticolonial struggles and a persuasive critic of torture and government oppression.
Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Trumpbour
In the Money In the Money
An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.
Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Katrina vanden Heuvel Takes On Karl Rove Katrina vanden Heuvel Takes On Karl Rove
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel debates the GOP guru.
Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / ABC News
‘Who Has the Best Tunes?’ ‘Who Has the Best Tunes?’
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, blasphemes not only Islam and Hinduism, but Thatcherism and the advertising industry. He's unkind, too, to V.S. Naipaul. For this they want to...
Feb 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Photography’s Ghosts: The Image and Its Artifice Photography’s Ghosts: The Image and Its Artifice
Two new books explore the truths and artifice of photography.
Feb 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Frances Richard
Back Talk: Alva Noë Back Talk: Alva Noë
Philosopher Alva Noë talks about the brain, consciousness and animal rights.
Feb 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood