Shoot the Piano Player Shoot the Piano Player

Reviews of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Me and You and Everyone We Know and other new films.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

To the Wires Overhead To the Wires Overhead

This is the year
when the swallows did not come back

you have not noticed

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To Being Late To Being Late

Again again you are
the right time after all

not according to
however we planned it

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To the Margin To the Margin

Following the black
footprints the tracks
of words that have passed that way
before me I come
again and again to
your blank shore

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

Mother Nature’s Son Mother Nature’s Son

Novalis's unfinished novel is a kaleidoscope of visions and allegories of nature.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Ross Benjamin

Prosaic Judgments Prosaic Judgments

Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual poems.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Theater of Cruelty The Theater of Cruelty

The detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib were both a continuation and a divergence from historical prison practices.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh

Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness

America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.

Jun 29, 2005 / Feature / Mike Davis

Beyond Gay Marriage Beyond Gay Marriage

By engaging the marriage debate only in terms of "gay rights," progressives have put themselves in a losing position.

Jun 29, 2005 / Feature / Richard Kim and Lisa Duggan

The Big Lie The Big Lie

"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th attacks." George W. Bush -- September 17, 2003 To the extend that George Bush had retained the sl...

Jun 29, 2005 / John Nichols