Shelf Life Shelf Life
On Reza Aslan’s Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Elias Muhanna
Drunk and Disorderly Drunk and Disorderly
Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
Oct 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Phoebe Connelly
Chop Shops Chop Shops
Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.
May 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt: Things Fall Apart At Fifty A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt: Things Fall Apart At Fifty
Published fifty years ago, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart mounted a literary rebellion against the everyday amalgamations and condescension that treat Africa as an undiffere...
May 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French
Bridging It Bridging It
With the help of a collector, Sonny Rollins has taken the curating of his career in a new direction.
Mar 31, 2009 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams
In the Money In the Money
An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.
Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
The Leavetaking The Leavetaking
What legacy did Harold Pinter leave behind?
Feb 17, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Richard Byrne
The Tattoo Archipelago The Tattoo Archipelago
The taxonomy of Russian criminal tattoos.
Feb 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Megan Buskey
Underground Man Underground Man
Nimrod Workman's craggy ballads of Mingo County coal country.
Jan 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Justin Taylor
BookExpo 2012, Los Angeles BookExpo 2012, Los Angeles
The hottest titles exorcise ghosts from our political past.
Jan 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Will Heinrich