Emotional Rescue Emotional Rescue
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum, Jane Campion's Bright Star
Sep 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Domestic Existentialist: On Mercè Rodoreda A Domestic Existentialist: On Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
Sep 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Wimmer
A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street
Ode to a bailout.
Sep 16, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Stewart Slams Beck, Tea Party Protesters Stewart Slams Beck, Tea Party Protesters
Jon Stewart reveals the not-so-subtle hypocrisy of Fox News' laudatory coverage of the so-called '9-12 movement' and tea party events held in the nation's capital.
Sep 15, 2009 / The Daily Show
Monsanto: Playing God Monsanto: Playing God
Monsanto is dangerously re-engineering America's food supply.
Sep 10, 2009 / Feature / Kirkpatrick Sale
Speak as Little as Possible: On Clarice Lispector Speak as Little as Possible: On Clarice Lispector
Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.
Sep 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Aviv
The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here
The glittering "spotlight" at a Toronto film festival is a reflection of Israel's desire to avoid scrutiny for its actions in Gaza.
Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Klein
People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down
From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.
Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
The Network Evening News Anchors Will Be Majority Women The Network Evening News Anchors Will Be Majority Women
This just in...
Sep 9, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Trade Deficit Trade Deficit
Do you have any friends, the darkness asks, and for a moment you're surprised: you expected salt, maybe, or terror. China has some wisdom to offer on this point: Learn how to make a lot of things that are basically useless and also a few things that matter, then flood the markets. The trick is that once the markets are flooded, you must create new markets. Darkness does this all the time, knocking at your door: Do you have any mercy, it asks, any weapons, any sugar, any stone.
Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / G.C. Waldrep