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In 1924, Lidia Ivanova, George Balanchine’s “lost muse,” disappeared on the eve of their company’s first European tour. Was her death an accident?
Dec 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Who Didn’t Kill JFK? Who Didn’t Kill JFK?
Kennedy’s presidency and assassination seem more elusive as the decades pass.
Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gage
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How did something as trivial as spam end up on the forefront of cyberwar?
Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Saler
Surviving the Moment Surviving the Moment
Do our financial wizards, like vampires, leave no reflection in the mirror of art?
Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Fungibility of Air The Fungibility of Air
Real estate has become an extractive industry, mining the air for property.
Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Plainspoken: On Mark Morris Plainspoken: On Mark Morris
How a choreographer’s love for the basic truths of the body has remained uncompromising.
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Helios Helios
Strong horses, Percherons, bred for imperturbability and speed: Aethon, Eous, Pyrois, Phlegon, what names to call a conflagration by. Two decades with the force, and you’d little use for people, but horses, that was a different matter: strong horses, swift as shadows lengthening across the tile bed, a father could not hold them, how could a god.
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Jernigan
Old Boys Old Boys
David O. Russell’s American Hustle; Spike Lee’s Oldboy
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Without Respite Without Respite
Seeing not a person but a thing was the crime of crimes for Primo Levi.
Nov 25, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Debtpop Debtpop
Thinking about debt has become pop, and David Graeber’s Debt is the genre’s “Stairway to Heaven.”
Nov 25, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover