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Feb 17 2010 - 1:42pm

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Time to Empty the Pool (Books & Arts, Poems)
Daniel Bouchard
MOVE members exit their headquarters during a 1978 confrontation with police
They Didn’t Start the Fire (Books & Arts, Film)

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
Charles Mingus at the Monterey Jazz Festival, September 20, 1964
An Argument With Instruments: On Charles Mingus (Books & Arts, Music)

How a jazz artist’s relationship to black identity gave his music its stormy weather.

Adam Shatz
First Saturday of Summer in Virginia (Books & Arts, Poems)
Joan Mazza
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
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
Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley’s Alien Script (Arts and Entertainment, Books and Ideas)

The author opens up about his latest art exhibition, magic, failure and unexpected success.

Humna Bhojani
Gramsci Archive and Library, part of Gramsci Monument (2013), Thomas Hirschhorn
More of Less (Books & Arts, Fine Art)

Thomas Hirschhorn’s unmonumental monument to egalitarianism and Antonio Gramsci.

Barry Schwabsky
Summer’s fall: White House Down
Summer’s Fall: White House Down (Books & Arts, Pop & Circumstance)

The happy ending to Hollywood’s summer: not guy gets girl but guy gets job.

Joshua Clover

Blogs

Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali
The Notion

First let me put my cards on the table. I consider Jemele Hill, sports columnist for ESPN.com to be as incisive and interesting as they come. She has been a frequent and fearless guest on my radio show and is always aces on the air. That's why I'm so gobsmacked by Jemele's latest column, subtly titled, Laud the Courage in Tim Tebow's Stand.

February 3, 2010
Say No to CBS's Anti-Choice Super Bowl Ad
The Notion

The broadcast networks that air the Super Bowl have historically rejected advocacy ads. Yet CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl this year, has accepted an anti-choice ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family.

January 31, 2010
Slacker Thursday
Eric Alterman

In these past weeks, we've lost J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn, Louis Auchincloss, Robert Parker and Kate McGarrigle, Eric Rohmer, all of whom meant a great deal to me at one point or another in my now quite long life.

January 28, 2010
Conan O'Brien for Treasury Secretary
The Notion

As the Democrats hysterically reel away from heath care reform in the wake of Scott ("My daughters are available") Brown's win in Massachusetts, I'd like to suggest the sort of personnel change President Obama needs to make in order to recoup his populist mojo: fire Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and replace him with Conan O'Brien. Why? Because Conan clearly has a grasp of exactly what you should do when, after years of grueling effort, the Man jerks your chain just as you're on the brink of realizing a long-cherished goal.

January 21, 2010
The Dream Reborn
Peter Rothberg

Markese Bryant (aka Doo Dat), born and raised in East Oakland, knows firsthand the effects of pollution and poverty in local communities of color. Now he's a leader in the movement to build an inclusive green economy through campus organizing and community education.

January 19, 2010
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