Back Talk: John Turturro Back Talk: John Turturro
Actor John Turturro discusses his latest project, a production of Beckett's Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Photo Ops Photo Ops
Errol Morris's new documentary Standard Operating Procedure lacks critical distance but produces masterful evocations of Abu Ghraib.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Sweet Martin’s Badass Song Sweet Martin’s Badass Song
Several new books on Martin Luther King takes a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
A Deeper Black A Deeper Black
Shelby Steele's book on Barack Obama, an outdated critique of identity politics, misses the candidate's essential power.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mickey Mouse Media Mickey Mouse Media
A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
John McCain, Demonstrating His Intention to Make Inroads Among African-American Voters… John McCain, Demonstrating His Intention to Make Inroads Among African-American Voters…
But guess who showed up instead?
Apr 30, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Lost Causes Not Yet Found Lost Causes Not Yet Found
In Defying Dixie, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore seeks to reclaim the radical origins of the modern civil rights struggle.
Apr 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Kevin M. Kruse
Hearts and Minds Hearts and Minds
Is there more to racism in America than intolerance and immorality? Four books shed light.
Apr 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Thomas J. Sugrue
Dreaming Obama in North Carolina Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
Apr 23, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden