Alien Nation Alien Nation
Reviews of War of the Worlds, Dark Water and Land of the Dead
Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Willing Executioners Willing Executioners
Machete Season is an attempt to trace what went on in the minds of the Hutus who helped exterminate their Tutsi fellow citizens in Rwanda.
Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Fatin Abbas
As I Lay Reading As I Lay Reading
William Faulkner makes Oprah's Book Club this summer.
Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / J.M. Tyree
No Exit Strategy No Exit Strategy
Two new books examine what went wrong in the planning and conduct of the war in Iraq.
Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff
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