Unsilenced Unsilenced
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip, Azazel Jacobs’s Terri, Eve Annenberg’s Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish.
Jun 28, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Jimmy Cliff Sings for Peace in Afghanistan Jimmy Cliff Sings for Peace in Afghanistan
An aging but still spry Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican reggae master, rocked the Glastonbury Festival with a searing version of one of his biggest hits re-tooled as a cry for ...
Jun 27, 2011 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
The Pundits Analyze Sarah Palin’s Tour The Pundits Analyze Sarah Palin’s Tour
So Palin’s gone out on the stump. Or is she just a female Trump— A person eager for each mention For purposes of brand extension?
Jun 16, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Three Poems by Devin Johnston Three Poems by Devin Johnston
"Set Apart," "Early April," "Marco Polo"
Jun 15, 2011 / Audio / Devin Johnston
The Children’s Hospital: On David Foster Wallace The Children’s Hospital: On David Foster Wallace
Vulnerability was what made David Foster Wallace so beloved, but it often led him to surrender too much in his fiction.
Jun 15, 2011 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Shelf Life: On ‘Granta’ Shelf Life: On ‘Granta’
Under the editorship of John Freeman and Ellah Allfrey, Granta is thriving again.
Jun 15, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
The Hills Are Alive: On the Lakotas and the Black Hills The Hills Are Alive: On the Lakotas and the Black Hills
The story of the Lakotas does not end with their loss of the Black Hills or the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Jun 15, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ari Kelman
Oreo Oreo
Miriam felt that a wolf spider was stalking our pet cricket, Oreo who lives in a small indented "crouching pit" next to the refrigerator So I followed the spider’s wanderings then put a glass jar atop slid a paper underneath & carried it out to the garden She pointed out that Oreo had halted its chirping while the wolf was on the floor then resumed when I carried it out: When the wolf peeks through the door-jamb no more baaing from the lamb
Jun 15, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ed Sanders
Dan Sinker: How the Fake Rahm Emanuel Twitter Account Is Influencing the Next Generation of Satire Dan Sinker: How the Fake Rahm Emanuel Twitter Account Is Influencing the Next Generation of Satire
The man behind the @MayorEmanuel Twitter account talks about writing a real-time novel with tweets and how social media networks are ushering in a new generation of satire.
Jun 14, 2011 / Video / The Nation
The Canting Crew The Canting Crew
A new edition of The First English Dictionary of Slang is a saucy survey of the rogue jargon of the late seventeenth century.
Jun 14, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko