Shelf Life Shelf Life
Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.
Apr 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira
Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.
Apr 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes
End of the Line? End of the Line?
“Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas billionaire who has been the biggest backer to a group supporting Newt Gingrich, said this week that Mr. Gingrich had reached ‘the end of his line’ in his bid for the presidency.” —New York Times So Newt’s coming closer to facing defeat? His main sugar daddy’s no longer so sweet. And Newt never was: why, when he had the power Of all of that sugar, he still sounded sour.
Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller
A nineteenth-century feminist's exceptional life.
Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti
Opposites collapse in the work of the Shaman-Showman of contemporary Italian art.
Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Inescapable Smallness: On Jenny Erpenbeck Inescapable Smallness: On Jenny Erpenbeck
A young German novelist explores the logic of powerlessness.
Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Tristram Wolff
Adrienne Rich’s Touch Was Political Adrienne Rich’s Touch Was Political
A poet passionately engaged with writing and politics, she said "art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage."
Mar 29, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
The Situation The Situation
So Mitt’s officially an Etch-a-Sketch, And Rick says JFK’s speech made him retch. Ron Paul’s a ditz, and Gingrich is a letch. Though nets are flung as far as they will stretch, There isn’t any white knight there to fetch. Republicans thus sit around and kvetch.
Mar 28, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
Food Fights Food Fights
The use of food as a weapon during World War II.
Mar 27, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
From ‘Brown’ to ‘Lawrence’: On the Struggle for Gay Civil Rights From ‘Brown’ to ‘Lawrence’: On the Struggle for Gay Civil Rights
Dale Carpenter's exceptional account of the history of Lawrence v. Texas.
Mar 27, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell