Culture

People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down

From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.

Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

The Network Evening News Anchors Will Be Majority Women The Network Evening News Anchors Will Be Majority Women

This just in...

Sep 9, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Trade Deficit Trade Deficit

Do you have any friends, the darkness asks, and for a moment you're surprised: you expected salt, maybe, or terror. China has some wisdom to offer on this point: Learn how to make a lot of things that are basically useless and also a few things that matter, then flood the markets. The trick is that once the markets are flooded, you must create new markets. Darkness does this all the time, knocking at your door: Do you have any mercy, it asks, any weapons, any sugar, any stone.

Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / G.C. Waldrep

The Female Gourmet The Female Gourmet

A movie about women's struggle to express their gifts through work? Delicious.

Sep 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

Cornucopia Blues Cornucopia Blues

How will the good-food revolution move beyond its evangelical phase?

Sep 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Brent Cunningham

Aracataca and Sucre Aracataca and Sucre

Will narrowed on a single object and fixed in the face of adversity--such is the recurring story of Gabriel García Márquez's work and life.

Sep 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

Cheney Offers Sharp Defense of C.I.A. Interrogation Tactics Cheney Offers Sharp Defense of C.I.A. Interrogation Tactics

Again, Dick says that torture's good.

Sep 2, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Tragedy at Chappaquiddick Tragedy at Chappaquiddick

In a matter of hours, Mary Jo Kopechne lost her life and Ted Kennedy the presidency.

Sep 2, 2009 / The Editors

Auden’s Love Poem for Humanity Auden’s Love Poem for Humanity

The poet's "September 1, 1939" saw the start of World War II and declared: "We must love one another or die."

Sep 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols

To Sleep, Perchance to ‘Sleep and Think’ To Sleep, Perchance to ‘Sleep and Think’

Conlangs often succeed only in stripping language of its surprise.

Sep 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

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