Comfort and Agony: Jennifer Moxley’s Clampdown Comfort and Agony: Jennifer Moxley’s Clampdown
Instead of offering healing or empowerment, the poetry of Jennifer Moxley explores vulnerability and "wrong life."
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
If art is a product of the mind, and the mind a product of evolution, is art a product of evolution?
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Toad Skin? Fernando del Paso’s News From the Empire Toad Skin? Fernando del Paso’s News From the Empire
News From the Empire hacks out a sinuous, branching path that connects fantasy with fact and allegory with analysis.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Puttin’ on the Glitz: José Manuel Prieto’s Rex Puttin’ on the Glitz: José Manuel Prieto’s Rex
Set in the glossiest of sanctuaries, Rex is a complicated and dazzling indictment of contemporary fiction.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Wimmer
The Kundera Conundrum: Kundera, Respekt and Contempt The Kundera Conundrum: Kundera, Respekt and Contempt
How did Milan Kundera's antipathy toward the media become as curdled as the Czechs' allergy to his success?
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl
Barack Obama Is Cliff Huxtable Barack Obama Is Cliff Huxtable
Barack Obama and Cliff Huxtable are both married to hot lawyers and have unrealistically cute daughters.
May 19, 2009 / Video / The Daily Show
Bush to Cheney: Be More Like Biden Bush to Cheney: Be More Like Biden
Dick Cheney gets a presidential reprimand for being on TV more than the ShamWow guy.
May 18, 2009 / Video / Saturday Night Live
High Tension in the Energy Debate: The Clamshell Reaction High Tension in the Energy Debate: The Clamshell Reaction
The '60s come alive again in the protest organized by the Clamshell Alliance against the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire.
May 15, 2009 / Feature / Harvey Wasserman
The Unresolved Marzani Case The Unresolved Marzani Case
The Carl Marzani case is an indication that the anti-communist hysteria has infected our judicial system.
May 15, 2009 / Feature / I.F. Stone
The Sacco and Vanzetti Cases The Sacco and Vanzetti Cases
Sacco and Vanzetti are being tried for highway robbery and murder, but the real charge is radicalism.
May 14, 2009 / Feature / Elizabeth Glendower Evans