Arts and Entertainment

The Most Happy Fela The Most Happy Fela

Fela! is an ambitious but flawed musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat and anti-establishment icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

May 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Franklin Bruno

The Abnormal Norm The Abnormal Norm

A film series organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and ArteEast tries to make sense of Lebanon's Civil War.

Apr 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Shelf Life Shelf Life

The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater; Terese Svoboda's Weapons Grade; Bob Hicok's Words for Empty and Words for Full.

Apr 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

Back Talk: Alice Echols Back Talk: Alice Echols

A conversation with the author of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture about the birth of disco and its transformation of gay life.

Apr 16, 2010 / Back Talk Conversations / Christine Smallwood

Extravagant Disorder Extravagant Disorder

Miroslav Tichy's haphazard, eccentric photographs are disciplined, even rigorous--and indifferent to the claims of their female subjects.

Apr 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

Scattered Threads

Scattered Threads Scattered Threads

This year's Whitney Biennial fails to address the question of which art pertains to our time rather than any other.

Apr 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Reading on the Brain Reading on the Brain

In the history of reading, does progress hinge on the weird, obsolete or eccentric among us?

Apr 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

One From the Heart One From the Heart

The superficial sincerity of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is not to be trusted.

Mar 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Lolita Lolita

Once he has swallowed the disappointment of discovering that Lolita in the movie is pushing hard on the age of consent, the libidinous critic must decide what if anything he can ...

Mar 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch

Superfluity and Bounty Superfluity and Bounty

The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is a reserve set aside for thinking about the categorical inferiority of destruction to creation.

Mar 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

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