Americans Are Working So Hard, It’s Actually Killing People Americans Are Working So Hard, It’s Actually Killing People
The jobless recovery means massive speedups for many workers you depend on.
Oct 28, 2014 / Feature / Esther Kaplan
Drawing a Frame Drawing a Frame
In his music and his prose, Virgil Thomson perfected a whimsically deadpan sensibility.
Oct 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
Strange History Strange History
John Lahr’s biography of Tennessee William gets mired down in psychoanalysis.
Oct 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein
Civilian Objects Civilian Objects
Architecture lets us speak of the spoken indirectly.
Oct 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Algeria Algeria
You eat a songbird From beginning to end. You pierce your gums With tiny ribs For a squirt of her liquor Down your throat. Mitterrand hid his pleasure & his shame Under a clean white napkin as His own blood mixed with his last meal. We are kept in the dark To be tender & fat. The ortolan bunting sings A beautiful song & Stains our teeth from behind.
Oct 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sylvie Baumgartel
Short Pop Short Pop
Film and TV are plagued by duration creep. Just like work—or unemployment.
Oct 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Puzzle No. 3343 Puzzle No. 3343
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Oct 28, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Letters Letters
Waiting for snow in Havana… Rough Rider… Kreitner replies… lowlifes prowl the Net… pri$on$ for profit…
Oct 28, 2014 / Our Readers and Richard Kreitner
Snapshot: The Grass Is Always Greener Snapshot: The Grass Is Always Greener
Thousands of African migrants live in camps in Morocco, just feet away from the luxe Spanish enclave of Melilla, separated from a better life by a nineteen-foot-high border fence. On October 22, twenty migrants made it over, while seventy others were caught on the fence and remained there for hours as white-clad golfers teed off.
Oct 28, 2014 / José Palazón
Misguided Media Hysteria Pervades the 24/7 News Cycle Misguided Media Hysteria Pervades the 24/7 News Cycle
Eric on this week in theater and music and Reed on how the media’s ratings-driven hysterics is warping Ebola coverage.
Oct 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson