No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero began using only the female figure in her paintings to push back the limits of her world.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The View From the Top Table: On Timothy Garton Ash The View From the Top Table: On Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a fine writer of "analytic reportage," but his work has lately displayed symptoms of columnitis.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini
The Oldest Romantic The Oldest Romantic
Why didn’t you warn me of the arm’s smoothness in its dormitory, where it enters the roundness of the shoulder, my eyes locked open. What made you think I’d forget the lure of the long gaze when you look back at me with that shadow under your arm when the sun is low… Why didn’t you believe it exists, the breathing in the lung under the arm, you alone with the vacant pain in one eye, the triangle of dark under you?
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Elisa Sampedrín
The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry
Gal Beckerman's When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone is an engaging account of the exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Nathans
Once Every Thousand Years… Once Every Thousand Years…
The Larry Sanders Show and the compromised administration of Obama.
Nov 4, 2010 / Blog / Eric Alterman
Be Not Concerned That Two Conservative Groups Spent $50 Million on This Election Be Not Concerned That Two Conservative Groups Spent $50 Million on This Election
The Supreme Court said it's okay!
Nov 4, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Texts for Nothing? On Tom McCarthy Texts for Nothing? On Tom McCarthy
With C, Tom McCarthy asks us to see fiction as a crafty and adventurous playmate unafraid of its mortality.
Nov 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
Fame is a Bee: On Dick Cavett Fame is a Bee: On Dick Cavett
A talk-show like Dick Cavett's, intelligent but not intellectual, offered television a new twist.
Nov 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Heather Hendershot
Voids and Jackasses Voids and Jackasses
127 Hours; Jackass 3D; Hereafter; Made in Dagenham; Middletown
Nov 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Emily Dickinson Came to Earth and Then She Left Emily Dickinson Came to Earth and Then She Left
Nov 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / C.A. Conrad