Jonathan Blitzer: El País’s Journey to the Mainstream Jonathan Blitzer: El País’s Journey to the Mainstream
How did a newspaper that once represented a progressive alternative to the status quo ultimately come to be firmly identified with the state itself?
Feb 2, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Francis Reynolds
Adelson Adelson
(Sung by Newt Gingrich supporters to the tune of “Edelweiss,” from The Sound of Music) Adelson, Adelson, Your donations do cheer him. We who root For our Newt Smile whenever you shmeer him. Absent your vow That you would endow Newt’s campaign with plenty, Adelson, Adelson, He’d be dead as Pawlenty.
Jan 31, 2012 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: On ‘El País’ The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: On ‘El País’
El País, Público and Spain’s Second Transition.
Jan 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer
Lucas’s Tuskegee Experiment Lucas’s Tuskegee Experiment
George Lucas’s Red Tails, Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness.
Jan 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3226 Puzzle No. 3226
Click here to download a print-friendly PDF version of this page. ACROSS 1 Presbyterians converted pop star (7,6) 9 Nearly remember one that’s tagged within concert (7) 10 Live inside of obese eccentric (7) 11 Choice of Ford models with a large vessel (5) 12 Episcopal stirred a soft drink (5-4) 13 Came down hard and saluted (6) 14 Drifting agnostic goes to hell (8) 17 Satanism defiled part of a log (8) 19 Nook with a flame limiting start of conflagration (6) 22 It might come from a pig: kind of spray on individual’s face (9) 24 One charmer in a picture (5) 26 Neoconservative paragon incorporating 1970s self-help movement’s overall pattern (7) 27 For example, Hemingway’s faction hijacking stripped Buick (7) 28 Allowance is imminent between Sunday and Monday, at one day’s close (8,5) DOWN 1 Yogi’s degree concealing blunder (5) 2 Incorporated in sour, irrational attack (9) 3 Sean cut crumbling fruitcake (7) 4 Named bicycle “Pterodactyl’s Guts” (6) 5 Ring up Winnie to express impatience (4-4) 6 Air Force exhibitions for business (7) 7 I make notes, perhaps! (5) 8 Last bit of fuel caught in foreign throttle (8) 13 Internet location’s tribute involving record (4,4) 15 Quarantine lunatic into a silo (9) 16 Mixed morass or tedious excerpt (8) 18 Repeat something on a list, nearly at speed (7) 20 Sort of Islamic philosophy of church-state separation (7) 21 Makes a pass at Shinto stranger (4,2) 23 Sends assignments (5) 25 Sorrowful poem set amid the old uprising (5) ACROSS 1 LACE + RATIONS 9 ASSE[n]T 10 CLASS + MATE 11 2 defs. 12 FE + MALE 14 F(ACSIM)ILES (scam I anag.) 16 F[our] + IV + E (&lit.) 18 [i]S + AN E 19 LE + F(TWINGE)R 22 PAT + RON 23 P + R(E)AMBLE 26 ELUC + I + DATE (clue anag.) 27 ID + I(O)M 28 anag., &lit. DOWN 1 “list” 2 CAT-HOLIC 3 RECON + SIDE + R 4 anag. 5 [j]OUSTER 6 anag. 7 [p/L]AYOFF 8 2 defs. 13 YES + T(E)RY + EAR 15 CONS + TRUES 17 TI + RAM + I + SU (rev.) 18 SUP(P)ER 20 “roomy” 21 NO VICE 24 B(RIB)E 25 T(AX)I
Jan 31, 2012 / Crossword / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Looking Back at the UFW, a Union With Two Souls Looking Back at the UFW, a Union With Two Souls
A Q&A with Frank Bardacke, whose new book Trampling Out the Vintage complicates the legend and legacy of Cesar Chavez.
Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Thompson
A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act
Obama and America's hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.
Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Bernard Avishai
Complaint Complaint
Walk out the front door, the dog tugs Boyishly at the leash. I sit at my desk. A breeze Floats up from Oakdale on the hottest day of the year. This is the climate of reason. But in the climate of no reason I look out the window at midnight. My mother appears in a red coat, raking the leaves. Always she wore that coat in autumn, The tattered wool, the large Black buttons, But only to rake leaves. Why my house was built on the dividing line I cannot say. Walk out the front door, Somebody dies. Walk out the back, The rabbit jumps out of his hole. Bedroom in one world, kitchen in another— You could say it’s always September here, Every day the first day of school. The bus is waiting. I’ve got books, my lunch, My gym clothes in a plastic bag.
Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
Shelf Life Shelf Life
The Complete Jean Vigo, Travis Wilkerson’s An Injury to One.
Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
The Foundation Business: On Olivier Zunz The Foundation Business: On Olivier Zunz
There’s more to American nonprofits than the success of wealthy donors and their large foundations.
Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Pablo Eisenberg