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Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Side Effects
Hollywood Ending? (Books & Arts, Film)

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night

Stuart Klawans
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
Portrait of Victor Shklovsky
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky (Autobiography and Memoir, Books & Arts, 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
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
Instructions From Lazarus (Books & Arts, Poems)
C. Dale Young
Yuri Shevchuk
The Russian Optimist: An Interview With Opposition Rocker Yuri Shevchuk (Activism, Music, World)

The well-known musician talks about the adoption ban, Pussy Riot and the future of the opposition movement.

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Alec Luhn
Magna Carter (Books & Arts, Music)

Every musical note has life in it. For six decades the composer Elliott Carter imagined that life precisely.

David Schiff
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Peace Activism, Shelf Life, Non-fiction)

Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.

Mark Oppenheimer
Hotel Artists (Books & Arts, Fine Art)

How working in hotels led Henri Matisse and Ian Wallace to rediscover the intoxicating purity of light.

Barry Schwabsky

Blogs

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
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
30 Seconds Over Toledo: How Political Ads Spell Trouble for TV News and Democracy
Eric Alterman

In the wake of Citizens United, big campaign donors are buying off not only politicians, but also the local news networks that cover them.

March 21, 2013
When a Media Campaign Helped Topple Pinochet: The New Film 'No' Provokes Debate
Greg Mitchell

The Chilean Oscar nominee for best foreign language film has just been released in the US.

March 14, 2013
Ten Years Ago Today a Dixie Chick Dared to Hit Bush on War—and a Hate Campaign Began
Greg Mitchell

The group's career suffered over Natalie Maines' comment against invading Iraq.

March 10, 2013
Michael Moore Battles Buzzfeed Over Palestinian Director's Airport Incident
Greg Mitchell

The filmmaker called out the website for its suggestion that the Palestinian director’s detention was a “publicity stunt.“

February 26, 2013