West Bank Stories West Bank Stories
Obama has paid an enormous price for pushing Israel to keep promises it has already made to freeze settlement expansion, and for what?
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The Magic Mountain: The 2010 New York Film Festival The Magic Mountain: The 2010 New York Film Festival
Lee Chang-Dong's Poetry, Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job and other films
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This… Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This…
American culture from Saul Bellows to Janeane Garofalo to NPR.
Oct 14, 2010 / Blog / Eric Alterman
Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern
In his paintings and travels, Paul Gauguin sought a corner of himself that was still unknown.
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Jay-Z Campaigns Again, But Without Obama Jay-Z Campaigns Again, But Without Obama
One of Obama's most famous fans reemerges for the midterms, but at a careful distance.
Oct 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Melber
Pleasures of the Tixte Pleasures of the Tixte
Has any book had a greater influence on the English language than the Bible?
Oct 7, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
The Antisocial Network The Antisocial Network
As Facebook continues to shape norms online and set the bar for aspiring start-ups, it is worth remembering the premise that it was built on.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Melber
Doing the Time: On Paul Chan Doing the Time: On Paul Chan
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans is a field guide to the life of an idea worked out in a community over eight months.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman
Traps Traps
David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ An All-Too-Real World In ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ An All-Too-Real World
In Terence Winter's too-beautiful Boardwalk Empire, the disconnect between "dry" Washington and the "wet," thoroughly corrupt real world is as blatant as i...
Oct 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Simon Maxwell Apter