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Charles Juliet's Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde; Matthew Spender's Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof: A Life in Letters and Documents; Zak Smith's We Did Porn:...
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
A Life’s Sentence A Life’s Sentence
Maureen Howard's most recent novel is The Rags of Time.
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maureen Howard
The Bubble and the Globe The Bubble and the Globe
Life in America is once more approaching John Ashbery, from one drifty moment to the next.
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Alexander Haig Dies; Said He Was in Charge After Reagan Was Shot Alexander Haig Dies; Said He Was in Charge After Reagan Was Shot
As if.
Feb 24, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
The Cut Man: On Taylor Branch The Cut Man: On Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch and a president's prodigious appetite for vindication before the bar of history.
Feb 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Zinn-ophobia at NPR Zinn-ophobia at NPR
NPR's attempt to appease its critics by featuring comment from conservative pundits went a step too far when it let radical right-wing advocate David Horowitz contribute to Howard ...
Feb 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Not Even Bing’s: On Louis Armstrong Not Even Bing’s: On Louis Armstrong
Terry Teachout's new biography of Louis Armstrong is stuck in the discophile groove.
Feb 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff
The Renunciation Artist: On Leo Tolstoy The Renunciation Artist: On Leo Tolstoy
The axis of moral struggle, a stroke of salvation--these are the spiritual dimensions of Tolstoy's late fiction.
Feb 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
‘Goldman Chief’s $9 Million Bonus Seen by Some as Show of Restraint’ ‘Goldman Chief’s $9 Million Bonus Seen by Some as Show of Restraint’
Blankfein's bonus: too petite?
Feb 10, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin