In Our Orbit: A Tolerance for Ambiguity In Our Orbit: A Tolerance for Ambiguity
In The Good Spy, Kai Bird documents the life of CIA agent Robert Ames, a sincere and unlikely mediator in the Middle East.
Jul 29, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Cecilia D’Anastasio
Blinded Me with Balance: How the US Media Get Science Coverage Wrong (& How They Can Get It Right) Blinded Me with Balance: How the US Media Get Science Coverage Wrong (& How They Can Get It Right)
Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on the media’s coverage of climate change.
Jul 21, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Writers or Missionaries? Writers or Missionaries?
A reporter’s journey involves writing with a sense of history and without false consolation.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is as modest and patient an act of daredevilry as has ever been achieved on film.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Endgame? Endgame?
How the rhetoric of ecoetiquette muddies writing about global warming.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls is a haunting and powerful novel.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
The Birth of Bad Taste The Birth of Bad Taste
Why Italian Mannerists like Rosso Fiorentino were painting’s first avant-garde.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Walking Stick Walking Stick
We didn’t protest. It’s not like you’re going to get anything from anybody. They don’t have it either. And the new system moved pretty quick— I had found a feral walking stick stripped from a tree by a new June shower nursing trumpets of crumbled lilac & held her scarlet eye on the outpatient pharmacy line— If the breadth of the difficulty rejects one ardent name I may still call the hour a phasmid or phantom freely stealing my heart from the other needs that burn it.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joel Felix
Sweeter Than the Sweet Sweeter Than the Sweet
For the Staple Singers and Stax Records, political engagement flowed from an artistic renaissance.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Cohen
25 Years Later, America Is Still Struggling to ‘Do the Right Thing’ 25 Years Later, America Is Still Struggling to ‘Do the Right Thing’
On the 25th anniversity of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," America needs to ask itself some hard questions.
Jun 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Mychal Denzel Smith