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In the Tank

Is sensory deprivation an escape from or toward the fatigue and distractions of the digital life?

Neima Jahromi

Imagine: On J.M Coetzee
The Childhood of Jesus explores the fictitious dimensions of a just and compassionate world.
Laila Lalami
Posted Sep 24 2013 - 6:12pm
They Didn’t Start the Fire
Jason Oder’s Let the Fire Burn; Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller; Peter Morgan and Ron Howard’s Rush; anniversary wishes to Stuart Klawans from Rabbi Simcha Feffeferman
Stuart Klawans
Posted Sep 24 2013 - 6:09pm
An Argument With Instruments: On Charles Mingus
How a jazz artist’s relationship to black identity gave his music its stormy weather.
Adam Shatz
Posted Sep 17 2013 - 7:34pm

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf during the Vesoul International Asian Cinema Festival, 2009
Salaam Cinema: On Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Books & Arts, Film, World)

An Iranian director’s ongoing meditations on the nature of illusion and reality, truth and consequences.

Adina Hoffman
Steven Soderbergh as Fletcher Munson/Dr. Jeffrey Korchek, in Schizopolis
The Long Goodbye: On Steven Soderbergh (Books & Arts, Film)

Hollywood’s wonkiest director hasn’t stopped working. He’s finding new problems to solve—and toying with us again.

Akiva Gottlieb
George Packer
Great Perturbations: On George Packer (Books & Arts, Economics, Non-fiction)

The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions.

Chris Lehmann

Pop & Circumstance

Pop & Circumstance

Summer’s fall: White House Down
Summer’s Fall: White House Down
September 3, 2013 - 9:00 PM ET
Joshua Clover

The happy ending to Hollywood’s summer: not guy gets girl but guy gets job.
Pacific Rim: Chomsky versus Zizek
'Atlantic Rim': Chomsky v. Zizek
August 13, 2013 - 4:11 PM ET
Joshua Clover

An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.
Leakonomics: Pirates and Snowden
Leakonomics: Edward Snowden and the Pirates
July 16, 2013 - 6:39 PM ET
Joshua Clover

Bounties on the mutineers demonstrate the limits of transparency.

Shelf Life

Shelf Life

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Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Shelf Life)

Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon

Peter C. Baker
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Shelf Life)

Martín Adan’s The Cardboard House; José Manuel Prieto’s Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia

Aaron Thier
Two Lane Blacktop
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Film, Shelf Life)

Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop

Akiva Gottlieb

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