Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, Eliav Lilti’s Israel: A Home Movie, Jerry Bruckheimer’s Enemy of the State
Jul 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Listless Boredom of the Bling Ring The Listless Boredom of the Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola’s new movie doesn’t move its audience to question these celebrity-obsessed thieves—and it should.
Jun 25, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Dean
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left
The current production of Sontag:Reborn only begins to portray the complicated relationship between Susan Sontag and The Nation.
Jun 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton
A poet’s reckonings with suffering and indifference.
Jun 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha
A portrait of the journalist and intellectual who championed the caboclos of the young Brazilian republic.
Jun 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Roberts’s Rules of Order Roberts’s Rules of Order
Marcia Coyle’s damning study of the Roberts Court’s conservative agenda.
Jun 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
‘We Steal Secrets’ Misses the Leak for the Leakers ‘We Steal Secrets’ Misses the Leak for the Leakers
Just as the Assange saga consumes too much of Alex Gibney’s film, so today’s Snowden obsession deflects attention away from our sprawling surveillance state.
Jun 17, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Peter Maass
The Many Faces of Mark Boal The Many Faces of Mark Boal
How did a journalist whose career was devoted to exposing injustice end up writing a film like Zero Dark Thirty?
Jun 14, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Michael Smith
Joss Whedon and the Pop Culture Canon Joss Whedon and the Pop Culture Canon
Much Ado About Nothing is great! Does it matter that its appeal depends on being a Whedon nerd?
Jun 14, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Dean
Rage and Ruin: On the Black Panthers Rage and Ruin: On the Black Panthers
A new history of the party is too close to its subject, and misses the human drama.
Jun 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Steve Wasserman