Traps Traps
David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Fair Warning Fair Warning
In Our Orbit: Tom Engelhardt's The American Way of War.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel
In ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ An All-Too-Real World In ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ An All-Too-Real World
In Terence Winter's too-beautiful Boardwalk Empire, the disconnect between "dry" Washington and the "wet," thoroughly corrupt real world is as blatant as i...
Oct 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Simon Maxwell Apter
Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met) Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met)
You know better, Newt!
Sep 30, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Slavery & Climate Change Slavery & Climate Change
On October 10, more than 7,000 actions in 180 countries will celebrate solutions to climate change in what is expected to be the greatest number of recorded protests in a single da...
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard
Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea
Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan di...
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Harris-Perry
A Man of Enthusiasms: On Ben Sonnenberg A Man of Enthusiasms: On Ben Sonnenberg
Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis
Ink Ink
I am the Angel of Death. I have come to confess.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jesse Nathan
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Alice Notley's Reason and Other Women; Andrew Joron's Trance Archive; Aaron Kunin's The Sore Throat and Other Poems.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Steve Evans
Founder Fatigue Founder Fatigue
Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries shows the founders as real people in motion instead of as Olympian gods.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robin Einhorn