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Charles Juliet's Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde; Matthew Spender's Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof: A Life in Letters and Documents; Zak Smith's We Did Porn:...

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

A Life’s Sentence A Life’s Sentence

Maureen Howard's most recent novel is The Rags of Time.

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maureen Howard

In Disobedient Rooms

In Disobedient Rooms In Disobedient Rooms

Pre-emptive evolution, the voices of time, infodumps: the science fiction of J.G. Ballard offers not prescience but present-sense.

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / China MiƩville

Alexander Haig Dies; Said He Was in Charge After Reagan Was Shot Alexander Haig Dies; Said He Was in Charge After Reagan Was Shot

As if.

Feb 24, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin

‘Avatar’: The Prequel ‘Avatar’: The Prequel

Will earth's last stand sweep the 2013 Oscars?

Feb 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael T. Klare

A Hard Week On the Planet A Hard Week On the Planet

Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond and the science behind global warming.

Feb 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

The Escape Hatch: On Cady Noland The Escape Hatch: On Cady Noland

Ironic exclamation points and metallic rectangles were some of Cady Noland's favorite things.

Feb 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman

Her Wild Entire: On Dorothea Tanning Her Wild Entire: On Dorothea Tanning

The brilliant revelations and transformations of Dorothea Tanning.

Feb 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

The Cut Man: On Taylor Branch The Cut Man: On Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch and a president's prodigious appetite for vindication before the bar of history.

Feb 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann

Foreign Aid Foreign Aid

Conspirators to the world.

Feb 17, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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