Shelf Life Shelf Life
Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop
Jul 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
Ground Zero Sum Ground Zero Sum
The architecture of the new World Trade Center buildings emphasizes that their business is none of ours.
Jul 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, Eliav Lilti’s Israel: A Home Movie, Jerry Bruckheimer’s Enemy of the State
Jul 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Listless Boredom of the Bling Ring The Listless Boredom of the Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola’s new movie doesn’t move its audience to question these celebrity-obsessed thieves—and it should.
Jun 25, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Dean
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left
The current production of Sontag:Reborn only begins to portray the complicated relationship between Susan Sontag and The Nation.
Jun 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Immortality Immortality
Online, no matter what I say My words will never go away. In cyberspace they’re there to stay. For that I thank the NSA.
Jun 19, 2013 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton
A poet’s reckonings with suffering and indifference.
Jun 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha
A portrait of the journalist and intellectual who championed the caboclos of the young Brazilian republic.
Jun 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Roberts’s Rules of Order Roberts’s Rules of Order
Marcia Coyle’s damning study of the Roberts Court’s conservative agenda.
Jun 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
‘We Steal Secrets’ Misses the Leak for the Leakers ‘We Steal Secrets’ Misses the Leak for the Leakers
Just as the Assange saga consumes too much of Alex Gibney’s film, so today’s Snowden obsession deflects attention away from our sprawling surveillance state.
Jun 17, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Peter Maass