An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics
Unraveling the Kafkaesque mystique of Franz Kafka.
Feb 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Provan
Angry America and the Bailout Angry America and the Bailout
As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possib...
Feb 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
Mail Matters Mail Matters
Will the Obama administration reaffirm the civic mandate of the Postal Service that was damaged during the Bush years?
Feb 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Richard R. John
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