The Russian Optimist: An Interview With Opposition Rocker Yuri Shevchuk The Russian Optimist: An Interview With Opposition Rocker Yuri Shevchuk
The well-known musician talks about the adoption ban, Pussy Riot and the future of the opposition movement.
Jan 27, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Alec Luhn
Magna Carter Magna Carter
Every musical note has life in it. For six decades the composer Elliott Carter imagined that life precisely.
Jan 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.
Jan 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer
Hotel Artists Hotel Artists
How working in hotels led Henri Matisse and Ian Wallace to rediscover the intoxicating purity of light.
Jan 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Crazy, Stupid, Guns Crazy, Stupid, Guns
Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad
Jan 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Among the Blasphemers: On Salman Rushdie Among the Blasphemers: On Salman Rushdie
Joseph Anton is a tale of betrayals: of free speech, communities, religion, marriages, personal convictions, friends.
Jan 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths.
Jan 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt
Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti
The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.
Jan 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Madison Smartt Bell
How the Creative Response of Artists and Activists Can Transform the World How the Creative Response of Artists and Activists Can Transform the World
It's the antidote to the consumerism and cynicism that define our culture.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Antonino D’Ambrosio
Unacknowledged Legislators? Unacknowledged Legislators?
Artists can open a space of possibility in politics, but their role is problematic—and not always positive.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Hari Kunzru