Gathering Fates Gathering Fates
For the German novelist Walter Kempowski, there was no single unifying experience of World War II.
Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Lipkin
American Minotaur American Minotaur
The flesh-eating creature of Gone Girl is a rampaging composite of dollar signs.
Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Shelf Life Shelf Life
How did “one person, one vote” become the rule for statehouses across the country?
Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
An Interview with Jackson Browne An Interview with Jackson Browne
The legendary songwriter about his politics, his fourteenth studio album and what it was like the first time he saw Springsteen perform.
Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Katrina vanden Heuvel
10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death 10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death
Contemporaneous accounts of the Roosevelts ranging over seventy years.
Oct 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
A Theater Without Qualities A Theater Without Qualities
Immersive theater has no real style—except to fetishize its look.
Sep 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Ricky D’Ambrose
China’s New Frontiers China’s New Frontiers
How Africa and China’s own borderlands became the center of Beijing’s new empire.
Sep 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Audrea Lim
Poetry and Catastrophe Poetry and Catastrophe
By privileging historical catastrophe, a new poetry anthology narrows the definition of art.
Sep 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
The Pretense of Balanced Debate: Behind the Media’s Blackout of Antiwar Views The Pretense of Balanced Debate: Behind the Media’s Blackout of Antiwar Views
Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on the two-party debate that has only one, pro-war side.
Sep 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Life in the Ruins Life in the Ruins
How the destruction of architectural treasures became a weapon in Syria’s ongoing civil war.
Sep 23, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel