Culture

The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril? The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril?

A progressive moment was supposed to follow Obama's election. Robert Kuttner's A Presidency in Peril asks where it went.

Jun 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman

Obama’s Temper Obama’s Temper

In praise of losing it.

Jun 10, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Feeling Groovy… Feeling Groovy…

On Summerstage in Central Park and Alison Pace. 

Jun 10, 2010 / Blog / Eric Alterman

Undefined

Undefined Undefined

Anthony Julius's Trials of the Diaspora and the myth of the new anti-Semitism.

Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Antony Lerman

Anti- Anti-

In The Ask, Sam Lipsyte never ventures beyond the comfort zone of his eloquently damaged protagonist.

Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / J.M. Tyree

Robot Rock Robot Rock

Video may have killed the radio star, but the vocoder liberates her voice.

Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / J. Gabriel Boylan

The Death and Life of the Book Review

The Death and Life of the Book Review The Death and Life of the Book Review

Newspaper books sections have been ailing for decades, but there's no better time than now for writing about books.

Jun 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

Miracles Miracles

 

Jun 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Shaughnessy

Black Is Also a Color Black Is Also a Color

"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917" makes some of Modernism's most familiar paintings seem unresolved and difficult again.

Jun 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Intimacies and Dishonesties Intimacies and Dishonesties

In Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver, the uncertainties laid bare go to the heart of human relationships.

Jun 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis

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