BP BP
(Sung by Representative Joe Barton, to the tune of "Blue Moon") BP, you've been so badly defamed— By shakedown artists so robbed, by petty bureaucrats blamed. BP, I'm sorry they've been so strict on These damages. You've been picked on, Without a case to convict on. But pay no mind to all these overreactions, For memories of this one more spill Will fade, like all your other infractions, And once again we'll shout, "Drill, baby, drill!" BP, you've been so badly defamed, The public's been so inflamed. BP, I'm truly ashamed.
Jun 24, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
As Big as Mount Ararat As Big as Mount Ararat
Orhan Pamuk may be the face that Turkish literature turns to the West, but the novelist Yashar Kemal is its conscience and heart.
Jun 24, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Marc Edward Hoffman
Bierced Bierced
Ours is an age of the unexpected, the extraordinary—the uncanny. What better time to resurrect the stories of Ambrose Bierce?
Jun 24, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Victor LaValle
Cornered Cornered
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's 12th & Delaware; Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's Restrepo; Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me; Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are Al...
Jun 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Everyday Oblique The Everyday Oblique
How and why do we use things like codes, jokes and slang to mask our meanings?
Jun 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Right-Wing Women Win Big in Primary Voting Right-Wing Women Win Big in Primary Voting
Have they kicked through the glass ceiling?
Jun 17, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Ardor and the Abyss Ardor and the Abyss
Emily Dickinson's reclusiveness was a way of protecting the world from herself.
Jun 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Gabriel García Márquez's Clandestine in Chile; Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget; Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street
Jun 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril? The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril?
A progressive moment was supposed to follow Obama's election. Robert Kuttner's A Presidency in Peril asks where it went.
Jun 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman