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
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
Ayn Rand: I Am the Greatest Ayn Rand: I Am the Greatest
Nation writer Corey Robin discusses Ayn Rand's kitsch philosophy.
Jun 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Press Room
Ayn Rand: I Am the Greatest Ayn Rand: I Am the Greatest
Nation writer Corey Robin discusses Ayn Rand's kitsch philosophy.
Jun 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / GRITtv
The Response to the Primary Victory of Rand Paul The Response to the Primary Victory of Rand Paul
Party pooper.
May 27, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Prolixities Docked Prolixities Docked
Revisiting an enduring guide to battered ornaments, elegant variations and Gr8 Db8s.
May 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Movement and Rootedness Movement and Rootedness
Ira Berlin and Steven Hahn want to counter the ways that the integrationist story of the American past casts aside alternative understandings of black history.
May 26, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt