Weightless Burdens Weightless Burdens
Gravity and the three-dimensional tears of Sandra Bullock.
Oct 8, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Presidents and Libraries Presidents and Libraries
A blueprint for the Barack Obama presidential library.
Oct 8, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Demon and Craftsman: On D.H. Lawrence Demon and Craftsman: On D.H. Lawrence
The process of discovery, not their profundities as such, is what makes Lawrence’s poems so gripping.
Oct 1, 2013 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
Abandoned Futures: On Carol Bove Abandoned Futures: On Carol Bove
Sculpture as a study in disintegration.
Oct 1, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Copyright Without Law? Copyright Without Law?
A legal quirk enabled Samuel Roth to pirate Ulysses. Was Roth a copyright anarchist or a pioneer?
Oct 1, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
What’s Going On What’s Going On
When it comes to protest, are pop songs smarter than us, knowing what they can and cannot do?
Oct 1, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
In the Tank In the Tank
Is sensory deprivation an escape from or toward the fatigue and distractions of the digital life?
Sep 24, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Neima Jahromi
Time to Empty the Pool Time to Empty the Pool
The rocks set down in the garden and the red sorrel that finds its way to unfold in sunlight its candy-shaped blossom and the water that flattens the grass and floods all the bugs in its path down to the thirsty hostas and the things that fly out from that wrath on tough little wings that look brittle and the big colored towel of dyed cotton with giant faces of cartoons and the frayed nylon of fold-up chairs riveted to hollow aluminum frames and the clouds drifting against blue and the twisting shapes of shade where secretive squirrels and birds ply their gathering trade and the beds of zucchini and basil whose leaves droop in the heat and the territorial spiders and the occasional passing motors over the hot humming road and your soaked lashes and dripping head and your grass- and dirt-covered feet slipping into flip-flops and the stories we read under the lamp and the insects hitting the window pane.
Sep 24, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bouchard
Imagine: On J.M Coetzee Imagine: On J.M Coetzee
The Childhood of Jesus explores the fictitious dimensions of a just and compassionate world.
Sep 24, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
They Didn’t Start the Fire They Didn’t Start the Fire
Jason Osder’s Let the Fire Burn; Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller; Peter Morgan and Ron Howard’s Rush; anniversary wishes to Stuart Klawans from Rabbi ...
Sep 24, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans