Partisans of Oblivion: A Situationist Novel Partisans of Oblivion: A Situationist Novel
Michèle Bernstein's Situationist novel explores a Paris hovering between Old World and New Wave.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Between the Dead and the Living: Jack Spicer’s Second Life Between the Dead and the Living: Jack Spicer’s Second Life
A new collection of poems by Jack Spicer returns one of the great American visionaries to print.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered
In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff
Death at One’s Elbow: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels Death at One’s Elbow: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels
Margaret Thatcher is never named in Derek Raymond's Factory novels, but her shadow falls over them.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Answer Answer
a moment of stillness, demanding an answer. When does a moment end? * Starbucks prayer, "Make morning good again." * Leaf shadows on pavement: word meaning to slide carelessly, repeatedly, to absentmindedly caress. * For I so loved the world that I set up my only son to be arrested.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men
...And their sons. This film had the unusual distinction of starring two "Jr."s, Lon Chaney and Noah Beery, both scions of silent film actors.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A movie that portrays politicians as corrupt? Believe it or not, this film nearly didn't get made for precisely that reason.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind
The film of Margaret Mitchell's bestselling saga of the ante- and post-bellum South set box office records that still stand.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie and Clyde
In the era of the antihero, few were more antiheroic than Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
All the President’s Men All the President’s Men
No one could put Richard Nixon back together again after Woodward and Bernstein got through with him.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch