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New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2014—Review New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2014—Review
Eric reviews Jazz Fest 2014.
May 9, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
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NYPL Shelves Plan to Gut Central Library NYPL Shelves Plan to Gut Central Library
After public outcry, the library’s $300 million project to demolish stacks and sell off branch libraries has collapsed.
May 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
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My Memories of Gabriel García Márquez My Memories of Gabriel García Márquez
What more could a young writer want than to spend hours and hours with the greatest author alive?
May 6, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Ariel Dorfman
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Hungary and the End of Politics Hungary and the End of Politics
How Victor Orbán launched a constitutional coup and created a one-party state.
May 6, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Kim Lane Scheppele
Antiquity Too Antiquity Too
—after Goethe Antiquity too had arms, legs, loins, and while its shadows thrashed on stone it would one day be, fucked, flicker-lit, like you, like me.
May 6, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Christian Wiman
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They Have No Graves They Have No Graves
Catholic Innocence meets Jewish Experience after the Holocaust in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.
May 6, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
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A Strange Luminescence A Strange Luminescence
W.G. Sebald’s A Place in the Country.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
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Higher Beings Commanded Higher Beings Commanded
A quartet of shows at MoMA decoct enlightenment from the banal.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
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Learning From Mexico Learning From Mexico
Richard Rodriguez’s vision of racial mixing as New World destiny.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook
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Survivalpop Survivalpop
The desperate situation of country’s popularity.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover