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
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 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
‘Times’ Says That as a Real Estate Developer Carl Paladino, Who Has Contributed Half a Million Dollars to Buffalo Pols Since 1999, Has Found Zoning Variances Easy to Come By ‘Times’ Says That as a Real Estate Developer Carl Paladino, Who Has Contributed Half a Million Dollars to Buffalo Pols Since 1999, Has Found Zoning Variances Easy to Come By
He's a special interest, too.
Oct 14, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Passionate Reader: On David Markson A Passionate Reader: On David Markson
Remembering David Markson (1927–2010), whose playful novels pushed storytelling to the edge of understanding.
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
Love and Hardship: On Gary Shteyngart Love and Hardship: On Gary Shteyngart
Is Super Sad True Love Story the kind of novel Gary Shteyngart might previously have held in contempt?
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier