Rockabilly Blues Rockabilly Blues
Rock. Rock. Rockabilly, rock. Really Billy, really, really rock. Shake your silly hillbilly flock. Sing the Pledge of Allegiance. Sing all the dire anthems of the coming apocalypse. Sing the burning bush. Sing the Wall St. blues & bow down before the bedonkadonk of Britney or the Brits at old Bunker Hill. It's all good... It's all Davy Crockett.
Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Adrian C. Louis
Red Cloth Red Cloth
Red cloth I lie on the ground otherwise nothing could hold I put my hand on the ground the membrane is gone and nothing does hold your place in the ground is all of it and it is breathing
Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jean Valentine
The Branches The Branches
The branches looked first like tepees, but there was no emptiness. Like piles of leaves waiting for fire: at the foot of the wisewoman trees, at the foot of the broken General, next to the tree of the veteran girl who died this summer slow red cloth
Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jean Valentine
VJ Day: Occupying Japan VJ Day: Occupying Japan
Surrender hasn't stopped Japan from resisting.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors
Sputnik: Sattelite Hysteria and Moonstruck USA Sputnik: Sattelite Hysteria and Moonstruck USA
A little Russian satellite beeping in space causes mass hysteria on the ground.
Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / Harlow Shapley
VE Day: Address to the German People VE Day: Address to the German People
The war in Europe is over, but while the Allies are victorious, the evil that the Nazis represented remains to be eradicated.
Apr 22, 2009 / Thomas Mann
On Bush Administration Memos Supporting ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’ On Bush Administration Memos Supporting ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’
It's all in how you define it.
Apr 22, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Rosenberg Case The Rosenberg Case
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg get the death penalty for a crime that no one seems sure they committed.
Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / The Nation
Farewell to FDR Farewell to FDR
On April 12, 1945, America mourns its greatest president since Lincoln.
Apr 22, 2009 / I.F. Stone
The Revolt Against Hoover The Revolt Against Hoover
The midterm elections don't portend well for the possibility of a second Hoover administration.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors