When Peter Matthiessen Was Silenced by his Publisher When Peter Matthiessen Was Silenced by his Publisher
How the cowardice of Viking Penguin kept the author’s In The Spirit of Crazy Horse out of print for seven years.
Apr 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
My Johannesburg My Johannesburg
The city and its landscape would not exist were it not for many violations against nature.
Apr 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Mark Gevisser
Mule Mule
The quiet country midnight got quieter. You said, “I hear snow,” and turned on the porch light. Carrot: pillow fight of light out the window. Winters passed. I brought you presents. I kept remembering your magic, hearing the deeper silence. Then one spring you sent everything back. Stick.
Apr 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Christina Robb
In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell (1943-2014) In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell (1943-2014)
Recollections from Tom Engelhardt and an interview with Schell.
Mar 31, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt and Christian Appy
Truman’s Folly? Truman’s Folly?
John Judis’s provocative history of US foreign policy toward Israel
Mar 26, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Bernard Avishai
From Visionary to the Fringe From Visionary to the Fringe
Immanuel Velikovsky’s strange quest for a scientific theory of everything
Mar 26, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Paula Findlen
Shelf Life: On Molly Antopol Shelf Life: On Molly Antopol
The short stories in The UnAmericans are studies of effusive remoteness and meandering revolution.
Mar 26, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
A Captivating Mind A Captivating Mind
How Georgi Markov became the truth-teller of Bulgaria’s communist era, and paid for it with his life.
Mar 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Dimiter Kenarov
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Dave Eggers’s The Circle; Richard Powers’s Orfeo
Mar 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
In Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination In Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination
Thomas Piketty’s ambitious, lucid Capital in the Twenty-First Century explains the depth and scope of our inequality problem.
Mar 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Kathleen Geier