Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art? Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art?
MoMA’s monumental exhibition recalls the time when abstraction affected people like love or revolution.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Hollywood Ending? Hollywood Ending?
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting
Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / David Auerbach
In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Stalker Stalker
For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably; Maurice Pilat’s Police; Leo McCary’s My Son John.
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry
How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.
Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky
A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.
Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger’s Jews and Words.
Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Laura Brahm
‘Zero Dark Thirty’, Snuff Film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, Snuff Film
The film’s torture scenes do not excuse or glorify torture; they do something worse: draw the audience into accommodating it.
Jan 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski