Jail Guitar Doors Jail Guitar Doors
By providing free instruments, we use music to help rehabilitate prison inmates.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Billy Bragg
How the Study of History Can Contribute to Global Citizenship How the Study of History Can Contribute to Global Citizenship
We can truly know only that which we have made: human history.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stanislao G. Pugliese
Homage to a Creative Elder Homage to a Creative Elder
My Tante Rezia was a patron of the arts, one of those silent supporters that every family, every artist, has and needs but rarely acknowledges.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Edwidge Danticat
The Nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense The Nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense
Opponents think that Hagel should Be more respectful of Likud. And on Iran, whose nuke we’re battling, He’s shown no zest for saber rattling. The first fight for this loyal lieutenant Won’t be abroad but in the Senate.
Jan 9, 2013 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Irritable Reachings: On John Keats Irritable Reachings: On John Keats
A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War
How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer
Waltz Unchained Waltz Unchained
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The ‘New York Post’ Calls Wayne LaPierre a Nut The ‘New York Post’ Calls Wayne LaPierre a Nut
Considering the candidates they’ve backed, So many of whom really seemed half-cracked, It’s obvious—no ifs, no ands, no buts— If even these guys think he’s nuts, he’s nuts.
Jan 2, 2013 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Putting Stories Into the World Putting Stories Into the World
Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.
Jan 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The Revolution Added Two Years: On Cairo The Revolution Added Two Years: On Cairo
How the neoliberal urban development schemes of the Mubarak regime have gained new life under the Muslim Brotherhood.
Dec 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel