Of Saints and Caudillos: On Enrique Krauze Of Saints and Caudillos: On Enrique Krauze
A Mexican intellectual takes the measure of liberalism and revolution in twentieth-century Latin America.
Dec 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Volpi
Scenes from ‘My Life as Sherlock Holmes’ Scenes from ‘My Life as Sherlock Holmes’
1. Feeling around for ideas in the dungeonette 2. Scattershot remnants of tulle and fur 3. To quell an especially decorative urge 4. The taxidermy machine in the hall 5. I enjoy life for a day or two 6. A set of alpaca calipers and an alpaca, in a plaza 7. To have banished disreputable grammar 8. Purloining a moment from the restless ocean 9. Vignette of a cat on a lap, ruminative 10. Before it all kicks off 11. Overheard: squawks from the surveillance pavilion 12. Adjective meaning “pursuivant to fishiness” 13. I take the case with a gothic reluctance 14. To the cave of the giant sloths 15. A salmon, a sirloin, a sticky situation 16. Getting pelted with elaborate hairballs in the kisser 17. Truth or carrier bags 18. I vanquish the wrong evil mastermind 19. The return of the alpaca 20. On the run 21. What dissemblers take for granted, sometimes 22. To tweak a surreptitious plan 23. One camelid down, one to go 24. Last ham standing 25. I relinquish my new friends with regret, and doughnuts 26. Sloping off to the hair palace 27. Having ravished a library for unseemly cheeses 28. Girdles within girdles, or faux circumference 29. A cob peering eerily through a sinister window 30. Dissection island
Dec 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jane Yeh
Eels Über Alles: On Julio Cortázar Eels Über Alles: On Julio Cortázar
A novelist’s lyrical attempt to measure the immeasurable.
Dec 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
Cranks and Cogwheels Cranks and Cogwheels
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.
Dec 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3219 Puzzle No. 3219
ACROSS 1 Religious figure shreds television accessory (6,4) 6 Mast’s box (4) 10 Where zlotys are stored for an event (4,5) 11 Core of scorched earth (5) 12 Why don’t we broadcast Latvians? (5) 13 Dodging most of state with one hop (9) 14 Circulated a mailer in Western city (7) 15 Black bird-dog (6) 18 Cars without Ed inside (6) 19 Taking on the first gang is pressing (7) 21 Dental irregularities and misshapen toes I went around to cure, for example (9) 23 Unraveling wires is more prudent (5) 25 Reject green water (5) 26 Profound awe about distressed veneer covering front of cabinet (9) 27 Turner precedes head of overseas alliance (4) 28 In general, conservative throngs present something terrifying (5,5) DOWN 1 Keep away pariah on the rise (5) 2 Reinforced debt’s role in crisis (9) 3 In religious attire, bluff Wall Street institution (10,4) 4 Acted like a flightless bird, deceased (dead) (8) 5 Budget to betray concealed intelligence (6) 7 Man eating river shrimp (5) 8 14D is TNT George exploded (6,3) 9 Church council guaranteed to induce weight loss? (3,4,2,5) 14 8 deposited around rock (4,3,2) 16 Musical slide that tells you how to interpret “glund” as “sound”? (9) 17 Overlook composer’s correspondence (8) 20 Holy man with roguish formality (6) 22 Be a supporter of patriarchal hegemony without leadership (5) 24 Slender animals climbing over yurt’s roof (5) TINKER 2A LE(CAR+R)E, 6A M(URAL)IST, 19A DO(MAIN)S, 2D CO(U)LD, 15D HARE (“hair”) TAILOR 11A LIDS (anag.), 13A STIR (2 defs.), 16A SAVIOR (anag.), 4D IRIS[h] + [fl]ES[hy], 12D SKEWE + D (weeks anag.) SOLDIER 7A SAW (2 defs.), 17A RED (rev.), 1D TIER (“tear”), 8D [g]RANT, 10D ADS (anag.) SPY 9A T + U(L)SA, 18A FRE(U)DIAN (a friend anag.), 3D ERAS(E) + S, 5D ESAU (init. letters), 14D I + OW + AN
Dec 6, 2011 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Letters Letters
Bill Moyers hits it out of the park, Rita Dove writes and Jeremy Bass replies, Wangari Maathai was missed, comments about our look
Dec 6, 2011 / Our Readers and Jeremy Bass
The Competition Pandemic The Competition Pandemic
HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: The demise of society will be the result of an insidious disease.
Dec 6, 2011 / Stephanie Weiner
Balance: A Crisis of Information and Democracy Balance: A Crisis of Information and Democracy
COLLEGE FINALIST: In the service of maintaining what passes as "balance," journalists strip news of both truth and controversy.
Dec 6, 2011 / Melanie Muller
In Osawatomie, Obama Embraces New Populist Moment In Osawatomie, Obama Embraces New Populist Moment
The president’s big speech in Kansas today reflected the extent to which Occupy Wall Street has changed the country’s political conversation.
Dec 6, 2011 / Ari Berman
Playing With Fire: Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to China Playing With Fire: Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to China
From now on, the primary focus of American military strategy will not be counterterrorism, but the containment of an economically booming China— at whatever risk or cost.
Dec 6, 2011 / Michael T. Klare