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robert bresson's still from, the devil, probably
Shelf Life (Arts and Entertainment, Film, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably; Maurice Pilat’s Police; Leo McCary’s My Son John.

Akiva Gottlieb
The Task Ahead (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry (Books & Arts, Covert Ops, Law, War on Terrorism)

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Samuel Moyn
Portrait of Victor Shklovsky
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky (Books & Arts, Autobiography and Memoir, Fine Art, Fiction, Literary Criticism)

A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.

Ben Ehrenreich
Photo of Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Religion, Shelf Life)

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger’s Jews and Words.

Laura Brahm
Noted (Political Analysis, Nation History)

Judith Long on Jane Sharples, Allison Kilkenny on the fight for Philly’s schools

Various Contributors
Zero Dark Thirty
'Zero Dark Thirty', Snuff Film (Sex and Sexuality, Film, Photography)

The film’s torture scenes do not excuse or glorify torture; they do something worse: draw the audience into accommodating it.

JoAnn Wypijewski
Sarah Palin Will No Longer Be a Paid Commentator on Fox News (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Picture of Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld
Safety Net: On Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld (Books & Arts, Biography, Fiction, Letters, Publishing Industry)

In his writing and life, Thomas Bernhard led a charge in the opposite direction. His publisher always broke his fall.

Holly Case
Instructions From Lazarus (Books & Arts, Poems)
C. Dale Young

Blogs

This Week in 'Nation' History: Reviewers Have Argued About 'Gatsby' Since 1925
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The debate surrounding Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation is nothing new.

May 18, 2013
Why Does the Press Still Take the Heritage Foundation Seriously?
Eric Alterman

The think tank has long since compromised its intellectual integrity, yet the media continue to trumpet flawed reports like the latest one on immigration reform.

May 10, 2013
When Eleanor Roosevelt Got MGM to Fire Lionel Barrymore From a Pro-Bomb Epic
Greg Mitchell

 Another unusual fact about MGM's planned 1947 film on Truman and the bomb.

May 5, 2013
The Bush Presidency, Undead
Eric Alterman

With the opening of George W's presidential library, pundits are rushing to whitewash the memory of those years of folly.

April 26, 2013
'Cape Fear,' and Our Fear
Rick Perlstein

In the wake of 9/11 and Boston, is it even possible to imagine a movie that makes civil liberties an integral part of its dramatic arc?

April 23, 2013
Chrissy Amphlett's Pleasure Anthem
Chloe Angyal

In 2013, a song like “I Touch Myself” is less shocking than it once was. But it is still revolutionary.

April 22, 2013
Give Me the Bad News First
Eric Alterman

Press coverage is hasty, error-prone and frequently depressing—but it nonetheless plays a vital role in our society.

April 18, 2013
Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?
Leslie Savan

Cable TV’s top hit is used to justify every political point of view—right or left, pro-NRA or pro-gun control, even pro-sequester or pro-stimulus.

April 5, 2013
The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media
Rick Perlstein

A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale.

April 3, 2013
Alex Gibney Interview on Early Media Controversy Over His WikiLeaks Film
Greg Mitchell

Julian Assange himself has criticized the film, but the director says Assange should watch it first.

April 3, 2013
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