Books and the Arts

With Friends Like These: On Pakistan

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

Christian Parenti

Post-White? On 'Blues for Smoke'

The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.

Barry Schwabsky

Posted Apr 30 2013 - 6:20pm

A Professional Victim: On Ira B. Arnstein

How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.

Caleb Crain

Posted Apr 30 2013 - 6:14pm

Articles

The Trials of Rafi Segal (Architecture, Books & Arts, World)

In Israel, an architectural competition and its winner have been sabotaged by the bad faith of its sponsors.

Michael Sorkin

Risky Business: On Risk and Individualism (Business, Books & Arts, Economics, Non-fiction)

A history of how risk management profits from manufacturing new forms of uncertainty and insecurity.

Stephen Mihm

And Darkness Comes: On Aleksandar Hemon (Autobiography and Memoir, Books & Arts, Essays)

How did everything a writer had known and loved come violently apart?

Aaron Thier

Pop & Circumstance

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 (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

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

Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Biography, Fine Art, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Barry Schwabsky

Poems

Penzance (Books & Arts, Poems)

Joel Sloman

What Did Clausen See (Poems)

Grzegorz Wróblewski

Instructions From Lazarus (Books & Arts, Poems)

C. Dale Young

Barbara Bush on White House Dynasties (Humor)

MoMA's Demolition Derby (Architecture)

With Friends Like These: On Pakistan (Foreign Policy, Books & Arts, Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action, World)

Post-White? On 'Blues for Smoke' (Books & Arts, Fine Art)

'Dirty Wars': A Look Into America's Secret Killing Machine

John Liu: An 'Out of Control' Wealth Gap Is Holding New York City Back

WATCH: The 2013 Ridenhour Prizes

Jeremy Scahill: Killing Anwar al-Awlaki

What's a Clue For?

Eye on the Pyramids (Part 1: How It Works)

Lessons to Learn From Arizona's New Gun Laws (Guns and Gun Control, Politics)

Stop-and-Frisk Under Fire (Police and Law Enforcement, Police Brutality, Profiling)

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