Culture

Black Is Also a Color Black Is Also a Color

"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917" makes some of Modernism's most familiar paintings seem unresolved and difficult again.

Jun 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Intimacies and Dishonesties Intimacies and Dishonesties

In Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver, the uncertainties laid bare go to the heart of human relationships.

Jun 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis

On Obama’s Plate On Obama’s Plate

He's a busy man!

Jun 2, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Ayn Rand: I Am the Greatest Ayn Rand: I Am the Greatest

Nation writer Corey Robin discusses Ayn Rand's kitsch philosophy.

Jun 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Press Room

Ayn Rand: I Am the Greatest Ayn Rand: I Am the Greatest

Nation writer Corey Robin discusses Ayn Rand's kitsch philosophy.

Jun 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / GRITtv

The Response to the Primary Victory of Rand Paul The Response to the Primary Victory of Rand Paul

Party pooper.

May 27, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Prolixities Docked Prolixities Docked

Revisiting an enduring guide to battered ornaments, elegant variations and Gr8 Db8s.

May 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

Movement and Rootedness

Movement and Rootedness Movement and Rootedness

Ira Berlin and Steven Hahn want to counter the ways that the integrationist story of the American past casts aside alternative understandings of black history.

May 26, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

In With Both Feet In With Both Feet

Like Charles Dickens's Gradgrind, Justice Louis Brandeis wanted facts.

May 26, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell

Icons and Zombies Icons and Zombies

Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead.

May 26, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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