Hesitation Blues Hesitation Blues
On Elizabeth Cook, Jorma Kaukonen and David Bromberg.
May 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With the First Debate The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With the First Debate
The man doesn't smile.
May 13, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Aug. 5 Aug. 5
Aug. 5 When a man is asked to sing of his anger the risk is that without remorse virtue dies War then is in the face, in this homelessness, the despair which couldn't wait couldn't ask for We don't talk to each other anymore we email global reach managed minutes morning to noon in the hospitals we are all old forbidden to talk of lost sons, asked to smile Enough, they'll hear the news, men in photographs die and nothing will seem simple, their faces especially where sorrow stretched everything Maps point to? and defeat looms where? out there where? Here the naked body is where terror lies Guilt builds monuments, the way we spend our time
May 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eléna Rivera
In Our Orbit: What Was Lost In Our Orbit: What Was Lost
Kai Bird's Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a meditation on the collective failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile their histories of loss and victimhood.
May 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel
The Enhancement of the Senses The Enhancement of the Senses
In The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes lucidly charts how the Romantics were as transfixed by the failures of science as they were by its bright accomplishments.
May 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Paula Findlen
Mind the Enlightenment Mind the Enlightenment
Jonathan Israel's epic defense of "Radical Enlightenment" has the dogmatic ring of a profession of faith.
May 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
On the Gulf Oil Spill On the Gulf Oil Spill
Enough to make you ill.
May 5, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Job’s Comforters Job’s Comforters
Science can be disproved only by its own criteria; when it comes to mental illness, its own criteria are often insufficient.
May 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Adam Phillips
The Most Happy Fela The Most Happy Fela
Fela! is an ambitious but flawed musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat and anti-establishment icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
May 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Franklin Bruno
Talking With Tony Judt Talking With Tony Judt
A discussion with the author of Ill Fares the Land about social democracy, trains and our desiccated ethical vocabulary.
Apr 29, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood