Colossus of Baghdad Colossus of Baghdad
As conditions worsen inside Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middl...
May 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Dreamscape Dreamscape
Reviews of the animated psychoanalytic sci-fi thriller Paprika, 9 Star Hotel and Poison Friends.
May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Doctor Stories The Doctor Stories
Atul Gawande offers up a banal self-help manual for aspiring MDs, while Pauline Chen prescribes a dose of compassion.
May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lizzy Ratner
Lengths Lengths
1 Evening succeeds evening. Demons discourse on familiar topics.
May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout
An African Solution An African Solution
Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent's own social movements.
May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice
On the Porch in the Seventh Ward On the Porch in the Seventh Ward
As the New Orleans Jazz Fest unfolded, a down-home celebration, bright with beads, sequins and feathers, took place in the city's poorest neighborhoods.
May 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Billy Sothern
Small Magazines, Big Ideas Small Magazines, Big Ideas
An impending rate hike could silence small independent magazines of all political stripes that make a key contribution to the conversation of democracy.
May 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Bill Moyers
Even Then Maybe Even Then Maybe
Not spent those bloodshot friendships those soul-marriages sealed and torn those smiles of pain I told her a mouthful
May 17, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Adrienne Rich
Cinema Studies Cinema Studies
The staged images in Jeff Wall's photographs mirror the fictional glamour of film stills and formal painting.
May 17, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Stop Making Sense Stop Making Sense
A 1920s Russian literary movement celebrating experimental narratives and absurdism never survived Stalin's reign.
May 17, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Colin Fleming