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Hitler's Classical Architect

Why is Léon Krier defending anew the work of the Third Reich's master builder?

Michael Sorkin

Attacks From Within: On Janet Malcolm
The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.
Mark Oppenheimer
Posted May 21 2013 - 6:31pm
Flappers and Philosophers
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight
Stuart Klawans
Posted May 21 2013 - 6:28pm
Rome's Cassandra: On George Weigel
The neoconservative leading the fight over the legacy of Vatican II in the American Church.
Paul Baumann
Posted May 15 2013 - 3:57pm

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Fight Clubs: On Napoleon Chagnon (Books & Arts, Science)

One anthropologist’s place in his field’s ongoing battle over questions of power, means and ends.

Peter C. Baker
Renata Adler, April 1975, Patmos, Greece, photograph by Richard Avedon
Adler's Way (Books & Arts, Fiction)

The slowly panic-making power of Renata Adler’s novels Speedboat and Pitch Dark.

Alexandra Schwartz
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Empire States: On Pankaj Mishra (Books & Arts, History)

Why a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.

Thomas Meaney

Pop & Circumstance

Pop & Circumstance

Taylor Swift at the Z100 Jingle Ball, New York City, 2012
Red Country: On Taylor Swift
May 7, 2013 - 6:34 PM ET
Joshua Clover

Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?
Paul Krugman, Joshua Clover, economics,
Pop, Charts: On Paul Krugman
April 10, 2013 - 1:36 PM ET
Joshua Clover

Krugman affirms the way things are, no matter how often he choruses the word "change."

Shelf Life

Shelf Life

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Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Autobiography and Memoir, Dance, Shelf Life)

Ralph Lemon’s Come Home Charley Patton

Marina Harss
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Fiction, Shelf Life)

Nikolai Leskov’s The Enchanted Wandered and Other Stories; Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself

Alexandra Schwartz
Paul Hoover
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Shelf Life, Poetry, Books and the Arts)

Paul Hoover’s second edition of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

Ange Mlinko

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