The Look of Truth The Look of Truth
Photographs are supposed to be unbiased recognitions of reality, but they're really self-portraits of the photographer. The Ongoing Movement, a blend of biography and analysis, exa...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Peter Plagens
Octoberfest Octoberfest
Four editors of October magazine trace the history of contemporary art. Though Art Since 1900 seeks to be comprehensive, its writers leave out entire movements and impose moralisti...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Pop Torture Pop Torture
Pop culture does more than validate the claim that torture could help foil bombs seconds before detonation.
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
Rogue Scholars Rogue Scholars
Defenders of torture dwell not only in the White House and Pentagon, but in the halls of academia. When prominent law professors and academics cite the fantastic "ticking-bomb theo...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Tara McKelvey
Disco Inferno Disco Inferno
Military detainees have been subjected to starvation, sleep deprivation and now Metallica and Britney Spears. Blasted at high volume, torture music has become a weapon of war, used...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Moustafa Bayoumi
The Putsch at Public Broadcasting The Putsch at Public Broadcasting
With professionals at the top forced out and replaced by GOP fundraisers, the right-wing takeover of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is now plain to see. Though CPB's Inspe...
Dec 1, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Studs Terkel on Music Studs Terkel on Music
Still going strong at 93, Studs Terkel has produced yet another oral history, And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.
Nov 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
The Best Intentions The Best Intentions
Syriana disappoints; The Boys of Baraka documents the lives of inner-city kids transported to the wild beauty of Africa; and Punishment Park zeroes in on injustice in America.
Nov 22, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
President Thelma President Thelma
Is Commander-in-Chief softening up the country for President Hillary? Americans may not not be ready to put a woman in the White House, but they may have calmed down enough to cont...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
Agee’s Gospel Agee’s Gospel
Two new volumes in the Library of America series present the life and work of James Agee, whose flashes of greatness as an essayist, screenwriter, novelist and Nation film reviewe...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Phillip Lopate