Arts and Entertainment

Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold History’

Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold History’ Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold History’

Missed opportunities, roads not taken—these are the central themes of Stone's new documentary. 

Nov 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

The Noble and the Base: Poland and the Holocaust The Noble and the Base: Poland and the Holocaust

Can the two central images of Poland during World War II—a country of heroes and a country of collaborators—ever be combined?

Nov 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / John Connelly

Children of the Storm: Education and Social Mobility Children of the Storm: Education and Social Mobility

Paul Tough and Jonathan Kozol examine how decades of family-unfriendly policies have heightened the stress experienced by many children at home and school.

Nov 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Helen C. Epstein

Generation X: On Wade Guyton and Gerhard Richter Generation X: On Wade Guyton and Gerhard Richter

Why two artists use a printer to make paintings without using paint.

Nov 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Eve Ensler Rising

Eve Ensler Rising Eve Ensler Rising

With a new play, Emotional Creature, and big plans for V-Day 2013, the activist playwright reaches for new heights.

Nov 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Laura Flanders

A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’ A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’

Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.

Nov 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

Totalitarianism, Famine and Us Totalitarianism, Famine and Us

Have histories of famines caused by totalitarianism become a distraction to the new politics of hunger?

Nov 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

Transmigrations Transmigrations

Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Law in These Parts.

Nov 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Journeys of Fred Halliday The Journeys of Fred Halliday

On socialism or the Middle East, Fred Halliday’s intellectual flexibility was one of his greatest strengths.

Oct 30, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield

Singularly Adaptable: On Alain Mabanckou

Singularly Adaptable: On Alain Mabanckou Singularly Adaptable: On Alain Mabanckou

In Black Bazaar, characters vent and stumble over their shared obsession with the colonial past.

Oct 30, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier

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