Ryan and Bachmann: A Response to the Responses Ryan and Bachmann: A Response to the Responses
A bore and a wacko! Together they caused Republican numbers to dwindle. And next year’s response? Some Republicans say, “So what was so bad about Jindal?”
Feb 3, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Why I Call Myself a Socialist Why I Call Myself a Socialist
Is the world really a stage?
Feb 3, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Wallace Shawn
Duncan’s Divagations: On Robert Duncan and H.D. Duncan’s Divagations: On Robert Duncan and H.D.
Robert Duncan saw in H.D.'s poetry “The story of survival, the evolution of forms in which live survives.”
Feb 3, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Dan Bell, RIP Dan Bell, RIP
On the late Daniel Bell, the very archetype of a committed liberal intellectual, and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, plus reader mail.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Berlusconi Scandals Berlusconi Scandals
Old satyrs revere Berlusconi. When finding himself home alone, he Just pays a good wage For girls underage, And gets them, though he’s old and bony.
Jan 27, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Return of the Culture Wars The Return of the Culture Wars
As before, hypocrites are lining their coffers by pandering to ignorance and xenophobia.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Doug Harvey
The Weasel’s Tooth: On W.B. Yeats The Weasel’s Tooth: On W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats’s poems on Ireland contemplate failures: not of poetry but of public life in all its forms.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Merrill Gilfillan’s The Bark of the Dog and The Warbler Road; Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
The Ballad of John and J.D.: On John Lennon and J.D. Salinger The Ballad of John and J.D.: On John Lennon and J.D. Salinger
Mark David Chapman was carrying a copy of The Catcher in the Rye when he shot John Lennon. The murder was a collision of cultures.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Obama: Triangulation 2.0? Obama: Triangulation 2.0?
In year three, will Obama heed the lessons of Clinton or Reagan?
Jan 20, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman