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Feb 17 2010 - 1:42pm

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WPA poster advertising the 1938 production of Haiti
Shelf Life (History, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Laurent Dubois’s Hati: The Aftershocks of History.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
The Suit (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Sophie Cabot Black
Portrait of a Young Man (1478), by Antonello da Messina
Faces out of the Crowd: On the Renaissance Portrait (Fine Art, History, Books and the Arts)

How Renaissance painters brought human presence to the fore.

Barry Schwabsky
Life After Merce (Dance, Books and the Arts)

Can the work of Merce Cunningham survive his death and the closing of his dance company?

Marina Harss
How to Watch a Police Beating (Poems, Books and the Arts)
Drew Gardner
A Man Escaped (Film, Books and the Arts)

Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not a Film; Kimi Takesue’s Where Are You Taking Me?; Manfred Kirchheimer’s Art Is…The Permanent Revolution

Stuart Klawans
Kenneth Goldsmith reading at the White House, May 11
Shelf Life (Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

David Orr’s Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry; Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writings

Jordan Davis
Vanessa, Philadelphia (2006), by Zoe Strauss
The Complete History of Every One: On Zoe Strauss (Fine Art, Photography, Books and the Arts)

Zoe Strauss has turned the streets of Philadelphia into a museum for her photography.

Barry Schwabsky
Members of the cast of Red Tails
Lucas's Tuskegee Experiment (Film, Books and the Arts)

George Lucas’s Red Tails, Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness.

Complaint (Poems, Books and the Arts)
James Longenbach

Blogs

Insert Hed Here
Eric Alterman

Eric on Smithsonian's Jazz anthology and Reed Richardson on the S&P's rating of the bond market.

April 22, 2011
Tangled Up in Unbelievable Foolishness
Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman reviews jazz, including Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton, the Jazz Foundation benefit, and Reed Richardson discusses the ethics of Obama's budget speech.

April 15, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor, Al Jazeera and the Raid on Entebbe
The Notion

How a Hollywood star offered herself in a hostage trade.

March 25, 2011
'If I Turn Traitor...'
Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman reviews music and Reed Richardson parses the ethics of sports journalism.

March 25, 2011
Brackets, Brackets, Everywhere
Eric Alterman

Alter-reviews of Stoppard and music old and new, Reed on the Washington Post's decision to bracket their writers into right-leaning and left-leaning and reader mail.

March 17, 2011
Then They Came for the Pensions
Eric Alterman

Alter-reviews of French movies and some new tunes, Reed explains the secret war on pensions, and the mail.

March 4, 2011
Walkouts, Payouts and Lockouts
Eric Alterman

Why the NFL's labor dispute should matter to you.

February 17, 2011
All Alter-Review Slacker Friday
Eric Alterman

Reviewing two shows in the Lincoln Center's "American Songbook" series, plus the Cowboy Junkies.

February 11, 2011
The Chutzpah Hall of Fame
Eric Alterman

Eric reflects on Martin Scorsese and Reed dissects the Groundhog Day mentality of Fox News's climate change "science," plus reader mail.

February 3, 2011
Dan Bell, RIP
Eric Alterman

On the late Daniel Bell, the very archetype of a committed liberal intellectual, and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, plus reader mail.

January 27, 2011
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