Hip hop and the Occupy movement have even more in common than you might think.

Hitchcock delighted in manipulating the audience. Early on Luis Buñuel learned to be satisfied with amusing himself.

Hirikazu Kore-eda’s I Wish, Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope, Shirley Clarke’s The Connection, Mia Hansen Love’s Goodbye First Love, Jennifer Baichwal’s Payback

He began his career singing about cars and girls before moving on to empty factories and abandoned quarries—and now, with Wrecking Ball, the depredations of Wall Street.

Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.

Adrienne Rich, 1929–2012

Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.

How the artist's narrative carried everyone away.