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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
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