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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

On Feminism and Sadomasochistic Sex
Dana Goldstein

Katie Roiphe's Newsweek cover story ignores the fact that in every century and decade, sadomasochistic erotica has broken into the mainstream.

April 16, 2012
In Defense Of 'The Help'
Ilyse Hogue

Though complicated by controversy, a weekend in Los Angeles with thirty domestic workers underscores the power of Hollywood to propel social change. 

February 27, 2012
'The Iron Lady': The Margaret Thatcher Movie We Don't Need
Laura Flanders

In the new bio-pic, Margaret Thatcher's iron isn’t just rusty, it’s melted down into something soft and personal. The Iron Lady gives us Thatcher, the ABBA Version. It’s the last thing we need. 

January 4, 2012
Miley Cyrus Comes Out for OWS
Peter Rothberg

&ldquotLiberty Walk,” the one percenter teen sensation’s catchy, if repetitive, remixed single sets her music to laudatory images from OWS encampments throughout the nation.

November 29, 2011
Top Ten Songs About Class
Peter Rothberg

Since every great protest movement needs its culture, here's my stab at a list of the ten best songs ever written about class and poverty in tribute to #OccupyWallStreet.

October 3, 2011
Top Ten Back-to-School Songs
StudentNation

An incomplete list of ten of the best songs ever written about school.

September 9, 2011
Top Ten Labor Day Songs
Peter Rothberg

In honor of Labor Day, here’s a stab at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people.

September 4, 2011
Top Ten Songs About Women's Equality
Peter Rothberg

In honor of today's 91st anniversary of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, here's my completely assailable list of the top ten songs about women's equality.

August 26, 2011
The Newest Avenger: Superhero to Challenge Race Politics
StudentNation

When he makes his comeback this fall, Spiderman will ditch Peter Parker’s persona as scrawny, awkward, white, science-nerd and adopt a new one as the half-black, half-Latino Miles Morales.

August 16, 2011
HBO's Gloria Steinem Doc Glosses over Race, and Fails to Assess the Second Wave's Legacy
The Notion

Gloria Steinem and Second Wave feminism deserve a far more sophisticated and critical treatment.

August 12, 2011
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