Silence and Slow Time Silence and Slow Time
The art of On Kawara.
Mar 20, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Interview With Steve Earle Interview With Steve Earle
"Everybody thought everybody was fooling everybody. And both of us were probably right to a certain extent, everybody was fooling each of us."
Mar 19, 2015 / Blog / Eric Alterman
Cookie Don’t Crumble Cookie Don’t Crumble
Fox’s Empire made TV-ratings history by letting a black woman be her multidimensional self.
Mar 18, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook
I’ve Got a Little List, Continued I’ve Got a Little List, Continued
The best TV shows, albums and concerts: it's all inside today's Altercation.
Mar 12, 2015 / Blog / Eric Alterman
The Great Chastening The Great Chastening
For Francis Fukuyama and John Dunn, our democratic crisis is the result of an intellectual failure.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
‘Insoumission’ ‘Insoumission’
The categorical imperative “Do Not Draw the Prophet” clashes with the thousand nuances of art.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stéphane Delorme
Impossible Standards Impossible Standards
The poems and a new biography of James Laughlin tells of his public success as a publisher and his private disappointments.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Adam Plunkett
The Necessity of ‘Citizenfour’ The Necessity of ‘Citizenfour’
A win for the Edward Snowden documentary is a win for democracy.
Feb 25, 2015 / Editorial / Ali Gharib
Jean-Luc Godard and the End of Cinema Jean-Luc Godard and the End of Cinema
The French director is still grappling with the collapsing culture of cinema while imagining its future incarnation.
Feb 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
A Volcano of Documents A Volcano of Documents
How the discovery of police archives has altered the memory of political atrocities in Guatemala.
Feb 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby