Culture

Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars

The unmanned vehicle is "bored out of its mind."

Oct 24, 2006 / The Nation

Bush: Thousands of Registered Democrats Needed For ‘Extremely Important’ Mission Bush: Thousands of Registered Democrats Needed For ‘Extremely Important’ Mission

President Bush said Monday that members of the opposition party are the only ones who can make the November operation a success.

Oct 21, 2006 / The Nation

Marie Antoinette, the Upspeak Version Marie Antoinette, the Upspeak Version

It doesn't matter that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is a dreadful film, but it is alarming that the past is increasingly seen as a place in which the most important thing of al...

Oct 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Mark Steel

The Queen Is Dead The Queen Is Dead

Reviews from the New York Film Festival, including Marie Antoinette, Climate, 49 Up and more.

Oct 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Soldiers of Conscience Soldiers of Conscience

A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world w...

Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Staughton Lynd

Death in the Family Death in the Family

Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost represents one man's search to find the truth about himself, his family and the Holocaust.

Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gideon Lewis-Kraus

A Rebel in Defense of Tradition A Rebel in Defense of Tradition

As composer Steve Reich turns 70, he is winning recognition from the classical establishment for the creativity and power ever-present in his music.

Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff

A Short History of ‘Cut and Run,’ Using the George W. Bush Definition A Short History of ‘Cut and Run,’ Using the George W. Bush Definition

From 'Nam to Lebanon, the Gulf War and, um, Texas.

Oct 18, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

As Denny Hastert Stumbles Through an Array of Denials That He Knew About Mark Foley’s Behavior and Did Nothing About It As Denny Hastert Stumbles Through an Array of Denials That He Knew About Mark Foley’s Behavior and Did Nothing About It

What makes you think he knows anything?

Oct 18, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Pamuk’s Prize Pamuk’s Prize

If Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk is a political writer, it is by virtue of his sympathy for what is old and faded, for what no longer matters, or what never did.

Oct 16, 2006 / Maria Margaronis

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