The Response to the Primary Victory of Rand Paul The Response to the Primary Victory of Rand Paul
Party pooper.
May 27, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In With Both Feet In With Both Feet
Like Charles Dickens's Gradgrind, Justice Louis Brandeis wanted facts.
May 26, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
Eyes Wide Open Eyes Wide Open
For Herta Müller, writing is not a matter of trusting, but rather of the honesty of the deceit.
May 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Garbage and Gravitas Garbage and Gravitas
Ayn Rand was a melodramatist of the moral life: the battle is between the producer and the moochers, and it must end in life or death.
May 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin
Stories and Legends Stories and Legends
How Barack Obama has fashioned a personal and political identity by treating the history of the civil rights movement as a usable past.
May 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Thomas J. Sugrue
Scoured Light Scoured Light
Nothing is simple in the poems of James Schuyler, not even the formal austerity of looking out a window.
May 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Talking On Against Time Talking On Against Time
Though a new four-volume compilation of Paris Review interviews is filled with riches, it is tailored to the tastes of a polite literary culture.
May 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
Talking On Against Time Talking On Against Time
Though a new four-volume compilation of Paris Review interviews is filled with riches, it is tailored to the tastes of a polite literary culture.
May 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With the First Debate The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With the First Debate
The man doesn't smile.
May 13, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In Our Orbit: What Was Lost In Our Orbit: What Was Lost
Kai Bird's Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a meditation on the collective failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile their histories of loss and victimhood.
May 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel