Books and Ideas

Future Governor Races in New York; A Voter Speaks Future Governor Races in New York; A Voter Speaks

Grading on the curve.

Mar 10, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Remember 11/4/08? Remember 11/4/08?

 A new participatory documentary captures the excitement of Obama's election.

Mar 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman

Heroic Impatience Heroic Impatience

The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.

Mar 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Diego Gambetta

The Legislative Agenda of Congressional Republicans The Legislative Agenda of Congressional Republicans

Harking back to the Reagan years.

Mar 3, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Charles Juliet's Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde; Matthew Spender's Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof: A Life in Letters and Documents; Zak Smith's We Did Porn:...

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

A Life’s Sentence A Life’s Sentence

Maureen Howard's most recent novel is The Rags of Time.

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maureen Howard

The Bubble and the Globe The Bubble and the Globe

Life in America is once more approaching John Ashbery, from one drifty moment to the next.

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

In Disobedient Rooms

In Disobedient Rooms In Disobedient Rooms

Pre-emptive evolution, the voices of time, infodumps: the science fiction of J.G. Ballard offers not prescience but present-sense.

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / China Miéville

Dancing to the New Music Dancing to the New Music

What will become of the poem and the novel in this new century of rapid transformation?

Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / E. Ethelbert Miller

Alexander Haig Dies; Said He Was in Charge After Reagan Was Shot Alexander Haig Dies; Said He Was in Charge After Reagan Was Shot

As if.

Feb 24, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin

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