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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
Portrait of Adrienne Rich
Diagram This: On Adrienne Rich (Books & Arts, Poetry)

A new collection of Adrienne Rich’s poems does not show her at her best.

Ange Mlinko
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
A Message From Americans to France (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
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
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
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
The Dark Side of Democracy
Eric Alterman

The lead-up to the Iraq War ten years ago shows us how the media today falsely correlates importance and exclusivity.

March 14, 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