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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

An Interview With Oliver Stone on His 'Atomic Bomb' TV Episode Airing Tonight
Greg Mitchell

The filmmaker challenges the accepted narrative that dropping the bomb(s) was the right thing to do.

November 26, 2012
Bob Dylan’s 'Tempest': A Q&A with Greil Marcus
Jon Wiener

The long-time Dylan historian sounds off on the Bard’s thirty-fifth studio album.

October 2, 2012
White House Cover-Up: When Truman Censored the First Hollywood Movie on the Atomic Bomb
Greg Mitchell

Sixty-seven years later, a look at one of the great, unknown tales of Hollywood "censorship."

September 27, 2012
Bill Moyers: For Campaign Cash, TV Gives Back Nothing
Laura Flanders

The campaign season earns local television stations enormous sums of money. What should they give back?

August 14, 2012
How About Also Taking the Guns From the Cops?
Cord Jefferson

The hit BBC show Luther, not to mention real London police, are important reminders that you don't need a gun to be a good cop.

 

July 31, 2012
Lobbyists Bribed Congress With a Free Screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Lee Fang

Are lobbyists using the new Batman movie as a form of bribery? Senator Leahy’s second cameo, and a special preview screening for staff, is a problem.

July 23, 2012
Rockers Renew Radicalism of Woody's 'This Land is Your Land'
John Nichols

Tom Morello marks Guthrie’s 100th by restoring the left-wing verses of his most famous song.

July 13, 2012
Top Ten Woody Guthrie Songs
Peter Rothberg

A centennial tribute to the man whose influence has been as profoundly felt as that of any musician in US, and perhaps world, history.

July 13, 2012
10 Comedians Who Aren't Defending Rape Jokes
Katie Halper

Funnily enough, not all comedians are defending Daniel Tosh’s rape jokes.

July 12, 2012
Woody at 100
Peter Rothberg

Woody Guthrie's influence was as profoundly felt as any musician in US, and perhaps world, history.

July 11, 2012
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