Culture

Jay-Z Campaigns Again, But Without Obama Jay-Z Campaigns Again, But Without Obama

One of Obama's most famous fans reemerges for the midterms, but at a careful distance.

Oct 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Melber

Politico Reveals That All Non-Office-Holding Contenders for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012 Except Mitt Romney Are on the Fox News Payroll Politico Reveals That All Non-Office-Holding Contenders for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012 Except Mitt Romney Are on the Fox News Payroll

In Murdoch's pocket. And with pockets ajingle.

Oct 7, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Pleasures of the Tixte Pleasures of the Tixte

Has any book had a greater influence on the English language than the Bible?

Oct 7, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

The Antisocial Network

The Antisocial Network The Antisocial Network

As Facebook continues to shape norms online and set the bar for aspiring start-ups, it is worth remembering the premise that it was built on.

Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Melber

Representative Women

Representative Women Representative Women

Christine Stansell's The Feminist Promise is a landmark book, yet is indifferent to the role of ideas in feminism's history.

Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum

Doing the Time: On Paul Chan Doing the Time: On Paul Chan

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans is a field guide to the life of an idea worked out in a community over eight months.

Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman

Traps Traps

David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Fair Warning Fair Warning

In Our Orbit: Tom Engelhardt's The American Way of War.

Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel

In ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ An All-Too-Real World In ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ An All-Too-Real World

In Terence Winter's too-beautiful Boardwalk Empire, the disconnect between "dry" Washington and the "wet," thoroughly corrupt real world is as blatant as i...

Oct 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Simon Maxwell Apter

Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met) Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met)

You know better, Newt!

Sep 30, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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