This Modern World This Modern World
Apr 22, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
Snapshot: Don’t Stop and Smell the Flowers Snapshot: Don’t Stop and Smell the Flowers
A student attempting to smell a magnolia blossom in NYC on Earth Day 1970. Now, teenagers in California are suing six federal agencies under the Public Trust Doctrine for failing to devise a climate change recovery plan. The National Association of Manufacturers has intervened against them. The case now goes to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Apr 22, 2014 / Spring to Action
Song and Dance Song and Dance
Why a production of Prince Igor was a missed opportunity to call a truce between opera and dance.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
The Brand Is My Business The Brand Is My Business
The only mystery about The Black-Eyed Blonde is when publishing derivative works became original.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Weinman
Money / Talks Money / Talks
O that common verb. Dress me in spatulas put the moon around my neck. Parting air the poet waves a hand, too much lace and I wonder if the trolley’s real, a giant upside-down flying spoon. God and hair I knew you in the Mechanical Age. Now I am someone who gets off and on trains with dads and bags everyday. Look, it’s 4:43 in the afternoon people go home. My mother wore Obsession in the eighties. I smell fire which has no hands, did you hear me? I have no horses now. Someone did not make your sweater, someone didn’t make it who loves you.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Nadelberg
In Our Orbit: Dream and Wit In Our Orbit: Dream and Wit
E.L. Doctorow’s Andrew’s Brain
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Sculpting With Color Sculpting With Color
Ed Clark and Lynda Benglis are still making art on a grand scale.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Letters Letters
Locked up in Alabama… Ben-Gurion changes his tune…
Apr 22, 2014 / Our Readers and Bernard Avishai
Puzzle No. 3323 Puzzle No. 3323
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Apr 22, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Why the Campaign Against Keystone XL Still Matters Why the Campaign Against Keystone XL Still Matters
Rejecting Keystone isn’t a comprehensive solution, but it would signal that the easy cycle of business as usual can be disrupted.
Apr 22, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter