Words Words
words have been used up chewed up like gum by lovely young mouths have been turned into white balloons bubbles
Feb 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Tadeusz Rózewicz
The Close Reader The Close Reader
William Empson's writing shaped modern criticism. A new biography restores him to his proper eminence.
Feb 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini
Free the Ulysses Two Free the Ulysses Two
The time has come to clear the records of two women convicted of obscenity for publishing excerpts from Joyce's Ulysses.
Feb 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Gillers
The Church of Football The Church of Football
If the holiest day on the American calendar is Super Bowl Sunday, Vince Lombardi and Joe Namath were its early saints. So what does that make Pat Tillman?
Jan 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robert Lipsyte
Factory Girl Factory Girl
China Blue is a surprisingly fair-minded documentary about teenagers working in a jeans factory in China.
Jan 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Remembrance: Ryszard Kapuscinski Remembrance: Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Polish writer who died January 23 chronicled coups and revolutions with eloquence and compassion; empathy was his most potent journalistic tool.
Jan 28, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Magdalena Rittenhouse
A Pillar of American Justice A Pillar of American Justice
The legal philosophy of Louis Brandeis illuminates some of the compelling legal issues of our own times.
Jan 28, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Charles A. Miller
Party Politics Party Politics
Dancing in the Streets is a history of outbreaks of collective joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
History Boy History Boy
The narrator of Martin Amis's House of Meetings describes the collapse of his soul through forty years of Soviet history.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift
Bombay Confidential Bombay Confidential
Vikram Chandra's epic crime novel Sacred Games is an infernal history of India in the last decade.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley