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The Rosenberg Variations

The Rosenberg Variations The Rosenberg Variations

A new book concludes that it was really Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's in-laws who illegally passed classified information on the atomic bomb to the Russians. Does the news still mat...

Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky

The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde

The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde

Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?

Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / David Wallace-Wells

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, Robert Darnton's Poetry and the Police, Jeremy Harding's Mother Country

Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Impasse: On Martin Solares The Impasse: On Martin Solares

The Black Minutes, a nuanced neo-noir, conveys how narco-violence has leached the Mexican justice system of meaning.

Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Wimmer

What Virginia Thomas Was Saying to Anita Hill What Virginia Thomas Was Saying to Anita Hill

Standing by her man.

Oct 27, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

‘Times’ Says CREEP-like Cash Has Returned ‘Times’ Says CREEP-like Cash Has Returned

But now it's no big deal.

Oct 21, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

That Seventies Show

That Seventies Show That Seventies Show

The continuous readjustment of expectations downward: For historians like Jefferson Cowie and Judith Stein, that was the key experience of the 1970s.

Oct 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein

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

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