Representative Women Representative Women
Christine Stansell's The Feminist Promise is a landmark book, yet is indifferent to the role of ideas in feminism's history.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum
Doing the Time: On Paul Chan Doing the Time: On Paul Chan
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans is a field guide to the life of an idea worked out in a community over eight months.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman
Traps Traps
David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Fair Warning Fair Warning
In Our Orbit: Tom Engelhardt's The American Way of War.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel
In ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ An All-Too-Real World In ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ An All-Too-Real World
In Terence Winter's too-beautiful Boardwalk Empire, the disconnect between "dry" Washington and the "wet," thoroughly corrupt real world is as blatant as i...
Oct 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Simon Maxwell Apter
Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met) Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met)
You know better, Newt!
Sep 30, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Slavery & Climate Change Slavery & Climate Change
On October 10, more than 7,000 actions in 180 countries will celebrate solutions to climate change in what is expected to be the greatest number of recorded protests in a single da...
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard
Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea
Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan di...
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Harris-Perry
A Man of Enthusiasms: On Ben Sonnenberg A Man of Enthusiasms: On Ben Sonnenberg
Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis
Ink Ink
I am the Angel of Death. I have come to confess.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jesse Nathan