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The Long Goodbye: On Steven Soderbergh (Books & Arts, Film)

Hollywood’s wonkiest director hasn’t stopped working. He’s finding new problems to solve—and toying with us again.

Akiva Gottlieb

Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Shelf Life)

Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon

Peter C. Baker

Great Perturbations: On George Packer (Books & Arts, Economics, Non-fiction)

The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions.

Chris Lehmann

Walter Mosley’s Alien Script (Arts and Entertainment, Books and Ideas)

The author opens up about his latest art exhibition, magic, failure and unexpected success.

Humna Bhojani

'Rodman Returns to North Korea to Visit Kim'—The New York Times (Humor)

Calvin Trillin

Remembering Seamus Heaney (Poetry)

The contrarian poet refused to toe any party line.

Margaret Spillane

Jester and Priest: On Leszek Kolakowski (Books & Arts, Books and Ideas, Religion, Philosophy)

How the great Polish philosopher went from being an anticlerical scourge to an apostle of John Paul II.

John Connelly

More of Less (Books & Arts, Fine Art)

Thomas Hirschhorn’s unmonumental monument to egalitarianism and Antonio Gramsci.

Barry Schwabsky

Summer’s Fall: White House Down (Books & Arts, Pop & Circumstance)

The happy ending to Hollywood’s summer: not guy gets girl but guy gets job.

Joshua Clover

Another Constructive Tea Party Agenda (Humor)

Calvin Trillin

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

Urgent, Unheard Stories

Roxane Gay

New novels, poetry and short-story collections from up-and-coming and established writers of color.

September 24, 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

Reading the Stakes in Syria

Roxane Gay

The Syria Dilemma, edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, offers a range of perspectives on the Syrian dilemma from within Syria and beyond.

September 17, 2013

A Literature of Her Own: ‘It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris’, by Patricia Engel

Roxane Gay

The author's absorbing debut novel chronicles a young woman’s year in Paris, where she will have to choose the home wants most.