Abalone Abalone
Abalone Rumsen aulón
Aristotle auriform Costanoans
cultivated, Brueghel painted,
awabi Osahi dove for
on September 12, 425 A.D.
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Yang
Class Acts Class Acts
The left's literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Root and Branch Root and Branch
A Canadian philosopher surveys some of the livelier flashpoints in America's battle over evolution.
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ian Hacking
Olbermann Rules! Olbermann Rules!
He's the guy who put the guts back into TV journalism.
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marvin Kitman
Art Matters Art Matters
Michael Rakowitz talks about his art, the possibility of public space and the Iraq War.
Sep 19, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Tiven
Little Disturbances, Enormous Changes Little Disturbances, Enormous Changes
Remembering Grace Paley and the impact she had on literature, activism and many generations of women and children.
Sep 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kathy Engel
Getting Away With Murder Getting Away With Murder
The brutal murder of a bishop and its violent aftermath exemplify post-civil war Guatemala's descent into chaos
Sep 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby
Jazz As a Way of Life Jazz As a Way of Life
The landscape riffs on what works where,
Scrub brush dirt, scrub brush dirt, bougainvillea
Pamplemousse-style on sandstone
Declining to absorb
Sep 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
The Passenger The Passenger
In a posthumously published memoir, Ryszard Kapuscinski looks back on his life as a pathbreaking literary journalist who covered the Third World during the cold war.
Sep 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice
Farm Aid Raises a Vision Farm Aid Raises a Vision
What began as an attempt to help financially strapped farmers in the Reagan years has grown into a visionary political and social movement rooted in the agrarian values of the Amer...
Sep 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Max Fraser