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Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Autobiography and Memoir, Dance, Shelf Life)

Ralph Lemon’s Come Home Charley Patton

Marina Harss
photo of Janet Malcolm
Attacks From Within: On Janet Malcolm (Books & Arts, Journalists and Journalism, Fine Art, Literature)

The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.

Mark Oppenheimer
klawans flappers and philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers (Books & Arts, Film)

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight

Stuart Klawans
At Brú na Bóinne (Books & Arts, Poems)
Elizabeth Arnold
Ways of Rebelling (Books & Arts, Poems)
Nathalie Handal
Suet (Books & Arts, Poems)
Alison Stine
Cartoon, Screwing the World (1984), by David Levine
In Our Orbit (Arts and Entertainment, Books & Arts, History, Humor)

Victor Navasky’s The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power

John Palattella
Taylor Swift at the Z100 Jingle Ball, New York City, 2012
Red Country: On Taylor Swift (Books & Arts, Music, Pop & Circumstance)

Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?

Joshua Clover
MoMA
MoMA's Demolition Derby (Architecture)

In defiance of its mission to preserve important works, the Museum of Modern Art has decided to raze the Folk Art building.

Barry Schwabsky
Portrait of Charlie Parker
Post-White? On 'Blues for Smoke' (Books & Arts, Fine Art)

The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.

Barry Schwabsky

Blogs

American Exceptionalism, According to Oliver Stone
Katrina vanden Heuvel

Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States will be rereleased this month on DVD; it tells a different story than the school textbooks we're used to.

October 1, 2013
Denby Hits Harvard for Publishing Book on Hollywood Moguls’ Aiding Nazis
Greg Mitchell

Is “collaborators” too strong a word for movie bosses dealing with the Hitler regime?

September 24, 2013
WikiLeaks Critiques New ‘Fifth Estate’ Film on Assange—and Provides Script
Greg Mitchell

The news-leaking website, in possession of a leaked script, offers rebuttals to the film that dramatizes Julian Assange's relationship with former colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg. 

September 22, 2013
Strange Lands
Roxane Gay

It took years, but I eventually came to terms with loving the idea of NYC more than the city itself. 

September 18, 2013
Springsteen's Tribute to Victor Jara—Forty Years After He Was Killed in the Chilean Coup
Greg Mitchell

The Boss pays homage to a celebrated Chilean political folk-singer who fell victim to the US-backed coup in 1973.

September 13, 2013
Roane Carey: Military Occupation Has Turned Israel Into a Brutal Regime
Nation in the News

Nation editor Roane Carey joins a panel to unpack the Israeli documentary The Law in These Parts.

August 21, 2013
White Is the New White
Aura Bogado

It’s time white women drop the practice of authenticating—and profiting from—the experiences of women of color. 

August 16, 2013
Rewriting Black Manhood: A Conversation With 'Fruitvale Station' Director Ryan Coogler
Mychal Denzel Smith

The 27-year-old director of the film adaptation of Oscar Grant’s shooting talked to me about the obstacles facing young black men in America today.

July 18, 2013
Top Ten July 4th Songs
Peter Rothberg

These ten songs, taken together, help distill the American experience and make clear both what’s great about the US and what still needs critical attention.

July 3, 2013
The Listless Boredom of the Bling Ring
Michelle Dean

Sofia Coppola’s new movie doesn’t move its audience to question these celebrity-obsessed thieves—and it should.

June 25, 2013
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