Culture

Waiting for the Miracle: On Leonard Cohen Waiting for the Miracle: On Leonard Cohen

In Leonard Cohen's Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.

Oct 7, 2009 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe

What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski

He's been punished for this lapse--exiled for decades from LA!

Oct 7, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Thin Shangdu Thin Shangdu

The millipede of furious minds who concocts all steel sternumed glass, imagines the heart of what they make, all ruse & rooms of ruby ventricled chandeliers. Along the rear of this vertical frontier: tents & oil spilt ponds, a jungle of bloomers hangs on tiers of stocking string. An opera singer, once in tiger's masque, keens which echoes deep in the well of his welder's mask. A young boy dreams of mums.

Oct 7, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Cathy Park Hong

Drunk and Disorderly Drunk and Disorderly

Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.

Oct 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Phoebe Connelly

Suspended Sentences Suspended Sentences

Eliot Weinberger's enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.

Sep 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

The First Counter-revolutionary The First Counter-revolutionary

Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.

Sep 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin

Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half

This Muammar is truly loony.

Sep 30, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Jon Stewart Defends Kids From the GOP Jon Stewart Defends Kids From the GOP

Stewart takes on the crazy conspiracy theories of the right, starting with the recent Fox News coverage of ACORN.

Sep 29, 2009 / The Daily Show

Glenn Beck’s Madness Mocked in Prime-Time Glenn Beck’s Madness Mocked in Prime-Time

The inevitable Glenn Beck impression makes its debut, complete with a trembling voice, blatant factual inaccuracies and Hitler salutes.

Sep 25, 2009 / Saturday Night Live

Nader’s Road to Utopia Nader’s Road to Utopia

In Ralph Nader's new utopian novel, "only the super-rich can save us."

Sep 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Richard Lingeman

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