Books & the Arts

Jazz As a Way of Life Jazz As a Way of Life

The landscape riffs on what works where, Scrub brush dirt, scrub brush dirt, bougainvillea Pamplemousse-style on sandstone Declining to absorb

Sep 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

The Passenger The Passenger

In a posthumously published memoir, Ryszard Kapuscinski looks back on his life as a pathbreaking literary journalist who covered the Third World during the cold war.

Sep 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice

Farm Aid Raises a Vision Farm Aid Raises a Vision

What began as an attempt to help financially strapped farmers in the Reagan years has grown into a visionary political and social movement rooted in the agrarian values of the Amer...

Sep 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Max Fraser

Grave Thoughts Grave Thoughts

Heddy Honigmann's documentary Forever visits the dead in Paris, but nobody grieves; James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma pits an evil Russell Crowe against a driven Christian Bale.

Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Perishable Goods Perishable Goods

A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.

Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn

The Earth’s Horizons: Panorama The Earth’s Horizons: Panorama

An observer limits her point of view to the line

Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Michèle Métail

The Uninvited Guest The Uninvited Guest

Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt examines the little dictator's doomed attempt to occupy an Arab country.

Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Roger Owen

The Madness of ‘King’ George The Madness of ‘King’ George

If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.

Aug 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Simon Prentis

A New Orleans family travels to their home near New Orleans, La., after it was flooded during Hurricane Ida on September 13, 2021.

New Orleans Is Us New Orleans Is Us

If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be the next to fail.

Aug 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Billy Sothern

Mad Men’s Retro Charm Mad Men’s Retro Charm

A cable hit's unabashed attachment to filthy habits, bad parenting and horrendous gender roles shows how far we've come from the Sixties.

Aug 28, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Anna McCarthy

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