Books & the Arts

Ratmansky Takes Manhattan Ratmansky Takes Manhattan

A celebrated Russian choreographer is charting a stylish new course for American Ballet Theatre.

Sep 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss

Naomi Klein in Conversation With Michael Moore Naomi Klein in Conversation With Michael Moore

Listen to Naomi Klein interview Michael Moore on how Obama is handling the economic crisis and who is letting Wall Street take advantage of us.

Sep 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Narragansett Narragansett

The complete sentence narrates a satisfying process. It closes and opens like a clam. I take a knife to the sentence and start my evening at the raw bar. It is hard work, and the sentences would prefer to be in the ocean. I would rather be a patron of this establishment. Someone over my shoulder Would rather know I am going to continue to put up with his stuff. It is not a wide receiver, his stuff. It is his development, Which is gradual. It involves testing me. Sometimes These tests take the form of imperatives. Drive onto the boat! The boat would rather be en route to Maine. It is an ambitious ferry. My knife wishes to whittle patterns Into the enormous picnic table. Art does not narrate.

Sep 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

Irving Kristol’s New Conservatism Manifesto Irving Kristol’s New Conservatism Manifesto

Irving Kristol's book reveals he's no democrat with a lowercase "d" either.

Sep 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Philip Green

Kristol’s Red Persuasion? Kristol’s Red Persuasion?

Drawing on his past as a Trotskyite, Irving Kristol states his case for capitalism--but cautiously.

Sep 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Lekachman

The African Airlift The African Airlift

The 1960 "airlift" of 800 African students to study in the United States lent a crucial boost to John F. Kennedy's popularity among African-Americans.

Sep 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Karen Rothmyer

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

Operation Rollback: Wal-Mart’s World of Business Operation Rollback: Wal-Mart’s World of Business

How did Wal-Mart become so successful that its merciless economic model could threaten its own bottom line?

Sep 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jefferson Decker

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

Right On Right On

Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?

Sep 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

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