Remember the Alamo, Part II

On the fourth of August last year in San Antonio, the Alamo rumbled.

Bárbara Renaud González

After Alienation

Since the collapse of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union, many on the left seem to have swallowed the idea that there is no alternative to capitalism.

Daniel Singer

The Prophet Vulgarized

Trotsky is both the hero of the Russian Revolution–the mastermind of October, the founder of the Red Army–and also its Job, hounded across a “planet without a visa,” his family exterminated, hi

Daniel Singer

The Dynasty of Mingus

For the past year and a half, I’ve been spending most of my time between 1922 and 1979–the years of Charles Mingus’s birth and death, since I’m writing his biography, due to be published next ye

Gene Santoro

So, Is It Back to Bowling Alone?

The scene with which The Good Citizen opens could have been lifted straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.

David Kirp

Nonsilence = Death, Too?

In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan’s East Village.

Mark J. Huisman

Room With a View

A man locks his daughters in a one-room house for their first twelve years. The girls–twins–don’t attend school; they don’t play with other kids. They’re never even given a bath.

Stuart Klawans

Rear Windows

Said the comic gangster in Payback, misquoting an old saw, “Don’t shit where you eat. Or, I mean, where you live. That’s it.

Stuart Klawans

Degas in Vegas

Arthur C. Danto

What Boddah You?: The Authenticity Debate

If there’s one thing everyone agrees on about Hawaii writer Lois-Ann Yamanaka, it’s that she has a perfect ear for local pidgin dialects, which change cadence and idiom throughout the islands of

Mindy Pennybacker