Battleground Cinema Battleground Cinema
Video activists and independent filmmakers are on the ground in war zones from Iraq to Lebanon and Gaza, using documentaries as instruments of peacemaking.
Dec 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Huff-Hannon
The Anthropic Principle The Anthropic Principle
Two red drinks--pure alcohol, with a maraschino cherry--in the bar next door, deep in the afternoon. While I hide in my
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eleanor Lerman
The Mayans The Mayans
The scowl is caught in jadeite. The flattened face on a green bead displayed in the orchestral light of the museum also boards the train on Steinway Street.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eleanor Lerman
The Bondage Club The Bondage Club
In the morning we put on our sharp blue suits and go to hear the delegates speak through broken teeth. These are the women whose names the press must be
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eleanor Lerman
That Sure Is My Little Dog That Sure Is My Little Dog
Yes, indeed, that is my house that I am carrying around on my back like a bullet-proof shell and yes, that sure is my little dog walking a hard road in hard boots. And
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eleanor Lerman
2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Eleanor Lerman 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Eleanor Lerman
Eleanor Lerman's poems sing a song that is bravely gloomy, but they sing it with a fierce and earned dignity.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Tony Hoagland
Uncle Tom’s Shadow Uncle Tom’s Shadow
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
The Plot Against Equality The Plot Against Equality
Walter Benn Michaels's The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robert S. Boynton
Suga Mama, Politicized Suga Mama, Politicized
Beyoncé Knowles's sexed-up club jam B'Day is also an odd, urgent, dissonant and disruptive personal and political statement.
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daphne A. Brooks
Unhappy Meal Unhappy Meal
Stuart Klawans reviews Fast Food Nation, a film that aspires to activism as it undermines its own anticorporate message.
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans