Ceaselessly Opportuning: On Barbara Guest Ceaselessly Opportuning: On Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest's Collected Poems showcase her knack for catching sight of time in its act of escaping one's grasp.
Mar 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
A Nazi Zelig: Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones A Nazi Zelig: Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones
The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's fictive memoir of a Nazi SS officer, is intentionally sickening and an unquestionably brilliant success.
Mar 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Bobby Jindal Bombs Bobby Jindal Bombs
Everything the GOP does these days turns to comedy.
Mar 4, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The GOP’s Hip-Hop Makeover The GOP’s Hip-Hop Makeover
Michael Steele's getting funky, frantically remixing the GOP message, in hopes of reaching new generation of conservative voters. Is anybody listening?
Mar 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ari Melber
The Politics of Pain The Politics of Pain
It is conceivable that torture will go on spreading underground until it is strong enough to break out once more and redouble the embitterments of classes and of races. If so, mank...
Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / V.G. Kiernan
V.G. Kiernan: Historian of Humankind V.G. Kiernan: Historian of Humankind
Remembering a historian of the left, an ideological warrior against empire, witness to India's anticolonial struggles and a persuasive critic of torture and government oppression.
Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Trumpbour
In the Money In the Money
An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.
Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Colbert Challenges Steele to Rap-Off Colbert Challenges Steele to Rap-Off
Nas's favorite faux newscaster offers to help the new Republican National Committee chairman take the GOP's message to the streets (and cul de sacs).
Feb 27, 2009 / The Colbert Report
‘Kenneth the Page’ on Bobby Jindal ‘Kenneth the Page’ on Bobby Jindal
The GOP can't seem to help itself when it comes to picking national spokespeople that remind the public of comedians.
Feb 26, 2009 / Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon
‘Who Has the Best Tunes?’ ‘Who Has the Best Tunes?’
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, blasphemes not only Islam and Hinduism, but Thatcherism and the advertising industry. He's unkind, too, to V.S. Naipaul. For this they want to...
Feb 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard