Culture

The End Game The End Game

What kind of trouble can Bush and the boys get us into now?

Oct 18, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Ink-Stained Marx Ink-Stained Marx

A look at the cantankerous dispatches he wrote as London correspondent for the New York Tribune puts the father of communism in a new light.

Oct 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter

Latina America Lavishly Comes of Age Latina America Lavishly Comes of Age

The quinceañera has become a rite of passage for even the poorest Latina teens, another example of our most treasured rites debased at the cash register.

Oct 16, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry

Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit

Driven by a tabloid episode from her own marriage, the novelist joins the debate over the mass marketing of trashy books to young black readers.

Oct 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander

What’s Radiohead Worth? What’s Radiohead Worth?

The British rockers stick a fork in the recording industry by offering downloads of a new album for whatever fans want to pay. Oh, the anguish.

Oct 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker

The Political Doris Lessing The Political Doris Lessing

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is every bit as political as her predecessors.

Oct 12, 2007 / Dan Kellum

Apocalypse Now? Apocalypse Now?

According to Chalmers Johnson, Bush's imperial presidency may be the final chapter in the collapse of American democracy.

Oct 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Holmes

Sound Check Sound Check

The history of twentieth-century music charts the rise of modern masters like Duke Ellington and John Adams.

Oct 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff

Taking Celebrity Seriously Taking Celebrity Seriously

The Paris Principle: politics are sooo hot.

Oct 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Duncombe

Burns’s War: What Is It Good For? Burns’s War: What Is It Good For?

An increasingly bookless universe has become the wasteland so many have feared. In a perfect world, we'd have more Ken Burnses expressing a multiplicity of views.

Oct 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

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