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Feb 17 2010 - 1:42pm

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Breaking Bad’s Failed American Dream (Drug War and Drug Policy, Television)

The “most dangerous show on television” highlights our shredded social contract.

Max Rivlin-Nadler
Flow Dynamics (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Elizabeth Arnold
Of Time and Intensity (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Peter Cole
Henri Matisse, Landscape Near Collioure (1905)
Extreme Eccentrics: Modern Art and its Collectors (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

When collecting works of avant-garde art, Albert Barnes and Leo and Gertrude Stein seemed even madder than its makers.

Barry Schwabsky
Tutelary (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Peter Cole
Claude Lanzmann
A Vast Choir of Voices: On Claude Lanzmann (Autobiography and Memoir, Film, Books and the Arts)

In his memoir, The Patagonian Hare, the Shoah director’s life upstages his masterwork.

David Rieff
Emily Bernard
Shelf Life (Race and Religion, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Emily Bernard’s Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Frances McDormand and Bill Murray in Moonrise Kingdom
Heart and Soul (Film, Books and the Arts)

Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus

Stuart Klawans
Playing Doctor (Sex and Sexuality, Film, History)

When it comes to the distant past, there’s a lot we don’t know about what occurred sexually.

JoAnn Wypijewski
Recipe (Poems, Books and the Arts)
David Dodd Lee

Blogs

Special Schadenfreude Edition...
Eric Alterman

Eric reviews Paul McCartney, Raul Malo and Elvis Costello, and Reed sees the ghost of the Republican party's past.

July 21, 2011
NxtGen: Stuff the Cuts
Peter Rothberg

For those concerned that there's no good protest music out there, the English hip-hop group NxtGen is using rap to take searing aim at the British government’s austerity budget.

June 29, 2011
Jimmy Cliff Sings for Peace in Afghanistan
Peter Rothberg

An aging but still spry Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican reggae master, rocked the Glastonbury Festival with a searing version of one of his biggest hits re-tooled as a cry for peace in Afghanistan.

June 27, 2011
Remembering Clarence Clemons—Early Days With 'The Big Man'
Greg Mitchell

Clarence Clemons could talk, both musically and verbally. 

June 18, 2011
Hot New Film Asks: Is the 'New York Times' Worth Saving?
Greg Mitchell

Andrew Rossi's documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times explores what happens when old media and new media collide.

June 14, 2011
Film About Bobby Fischer—Chess Champ, Fugitive, Anti-Semite—Comes to HBO Next Week
Greg Mitchell

Long before he won the title of chess champion of the world—and then became a fugitive, a raving anti-Semite and anti-American, and secluded in Iceland—Bobby Fischer was a part of my childhood.

May 31, 2011
Remembering Gil Scott-Heron
Peter Rothberg

Gil Scott-Heron's political legacy was vast and his connections to social movements deep.

May 28, 2011
Ed Schultz, Laura Ingraham, a Crude Word, a Classy Apology
John Nichols

It was a bad week for a good man, but the MSNBC host will be back to give voice to working men and women.

May 26, 2011
Bob Dylan's Top Ten Protest Songs
Peter Rothberg

Bob Dylan turns 70 on Tuesday. To mark the occasion I've assembled a list of what I consider his top ten protest songs with accompanying videos.

May 19, 2011
In Rap Battle, Stewart Demolishes O'Reilly on O'Reilly Factor (VIDEO)
The Notion

Jon Stewart paid a visit to Fox News' Bill O'Reilly to debate Fox News' hip hop double standard.

May 16, 2011
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