Uncle Tom’s Shadow Uncle Tom’s Shadow
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
The Plot Against Equality The Plot Against Equality
Walter Benn Michaels's The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robert S. Boynton
On the Iraq Memo Donald Rumsfeld Wrote as He Was About to Be Fired On the Iraq Memo Donald Rumsfeld Wrote as He Was About to Be Fired
Goodness, gracious! He was right all along.
Dec 7, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Justice Brandeis Justice Brandeis
One of the phrases most often quoted from Justice Brandeis is, "If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold." The full context in which the phrase fir...
Dec 5, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors
Suga Mama, Politicized Suga Mama, Politicized
Beyoncé Knowles's sexed-up club jam B'Day is also an odd, urgent, dissonant and disruptive personal and political statement.
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daphne A. Brooks
Unhappy Meal Unhappy Meal
Stuart Klawans reviews Fast Food Nation, a film that aspires to activism as it undermines its own anticorporate message.
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Palestine, a Dream Deferred In Palestine, a Dream Deferred
Two new books explore fundamental Palestinian and Israeli concerns: The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi considers the Palestinians’ failure to achieve sovereignty, and One Country by A...
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Bashir Abu-Manneh
Mad Mel and the Maya Mad Mel and the Maya
Mel Gibson's violent new film Apocalypto exploits Maya culture and perpetuates racist stereotypes.
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Earl Shorris
An Analysis of the War by the Newly Rehabilitated Trent Lott An Analysis of the War by the Newly Rehabilitated Trent Lott
Now here's a guy who knows whereof he speaks.
Nov 30, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Day the Music Died The Day the Music Died
It's the end of the world as we know it: Tower Records, the last great CD emporium, is closing, victim of the iPod and MP3 revolution. As Wal-Mart and other big-box stores pick up ...
Nov 27, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Max Fraser