Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered
In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff
Answer Answer
a moment of stillness, demanding an answer. When does a moment end? * Starbucks prayer, "Make morning good again." * Leaf shadows on pavement: word meaning to slide carelessly, repeatedly, to absentmindedly caress. * For I so loved the world that I set up my only son to be arrested.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men
...And their sons. This film had the unusual distinction of starring two "Jr."s, Lon Chaney and Noah Beery, both scions of silent film actors.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A movie that portrays politicians as corrupt? Believe it or not, this film nearly didn't get made for precisely that reason.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
The People in Charge The People in Charge
The people in charge of the bailout attempts Now constantly change how the effort is skewed. They're titans of Wall Street and finance and such.
Dec 16, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind
The film of Margaret Mitchell's bestselling saga of the ante- and post-bellum South set box office records that still stand.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie and Clyde
In the era of the antihero, few were more antiheroic than Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
All the President’s Men All the President’s Men
No one could put Richard Nixon back together again after Woodward and Bernstein got through with him.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Rising Above Rising Above
An anecdotal history of New York City street art.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman
Chinatown Chinatown
There's corruption in Los Angeles's water department and private detective Jake Gittes sticks his nose where he shouldn't-literally.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch