Arts and Entertainment

The Things They Carried The Things They Carried

Reviews of The Host, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Namesake.

Mar 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Winter Light Winter Light

Stuart Klawans reviews Into Great Silence, Sátántangó and the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of Abbas Kiarostami's films.

Feb 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Remembering Norma Rae Remembering Norma Rae

Why does Hollywood render unions and the working class invisible?

Feb 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robert Nathan and Jo-Ann Mort

Liberalism’s Lost Libretto Liberalism’s Lost Libretto

Tom Stoppard's epic Coast of Utopia speaks as much to the state of the American left as it does to the roots of Russia's revolution.

Feb 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

The Spy Who Loved Me The Spy Who Loved Me

Reviews of The Lives of Others and Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams.

Feb 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Book of Questions The Book of Questions

In a book-length essay on the novel, Milan Kundera foresees the curtain of literary history drawing to a close.

Feb 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

Factory Girl Factory Girl

China Blue is a surprisingly fair-minded documentary about teenagers working in a jeans factory in China.

Jan 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Surface Appeal Surface Appeal

Marden and Manet at MoMA.

Jan 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

The General in His Labyrinth The General in His Labyrinth

Reviews of Guillermo del Toro's dizzying Pan's Labyrinth and part two of Clint Eastwood's World War II opus, Letters From Iwo Jima.

Jan 4, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Moving On Up Moving On Up

Jay-Z, self-styled savior of hip-hop, is the face of the new establishment.

Jan 4, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Chang

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