Stephen Cohen on Stalin’s Forgotten Victims Stephen Cohen on Stalin’s Forgotten Victims
Stephen F. Cohen, author of The Victims Return, joins Morning Joe to discuss Stalin's atrocities, his contradictory legacy today and its implications for contemporary Russian ...
Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Morning Joe
Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag
According to Cohen, half of Russia looks back to Joseph Stalin as a great leader and the other half as a genocidal murderer. In his new book, he examines the ongoing struggle to ...
Oct 19, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation on Grit TV
Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This… Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This…
American culture from Saul Bellows to Janeane Garofalo to NPR.
Oct 14, 2010 / Blog / Eric Alterman
‘Times’ Says That as a Real Estate Developer Carl Paladino, Who Has Contributed Half a Million Dollars to Buffalo Pols Since 1999, Has Found Zoning Variances Easy to Come By ‘Times’ Says That as a Real Estate Developer Carl Paladino, Who Has Contributed Half a Million Dollars to Buffalo Pols Since 1999, Has Found Zoning Variances Easy to Come By
He's a special interest, too.
Oct 14, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Passionate Reader: On David Markson A Passionate Reader: On David Markson
Remembering David Markson (1927–2010), whose playful novels pushed storytelling to the edge of understanding.
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
Love and Hardship: On Gary Shteyngart Love and Hardship: On Gary Shteyngart
Is Super Sad True Love Story the kind of novel Gary Shteyngart might previously have held in contempt?
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
Politico Reveals That All Non-Office-Holding Contenders for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012 Except Mitt Romney Are on the Fox News Payroll Politico Reveals That All Non-Office-Holding Contenders for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012 Except Mitt Romney Are on the Fox News Payroll
In Murdoch's pocket. And with pockets ajingle.
Oct 7, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Representative Women Representative Women
Christine Stansell's The Feminist Promise is a landmark book, yet is indifferent to the role of ideas in feminism's history.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum
Fair Warning Fair Warning
In Our Orbit: Tom Engelhardt's The American Way of War.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel
Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met) Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met)
You know better, Newt!
Sep 30, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin