Ground Zero Sum Ground Zero Sum
The architecture of the new World Trade Center buildings emphasizes that their business is none of ours.
Jul 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, Eliav Lilti’s Israel: A Home Movie, Jerry Bruckheimer’s Enemy of the State
Jul 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton
A poet’s reckonings with suffering and indifference.
Jun 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha
A portrait of the journalist and intellectual who championed the caboclos of the young Brazilian republic.
Jun 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Roberts’s Rules of Order Roberts’s Rules of Order
Marcia Coyle’s damning study of the Roberts Court’s conservative agenda.
Jun 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
Rage and Ruin: On the Black Panthers Rage and Ruin: On the Black Panthers
A new history of the party is too close to its subject, and misses the human drama.
Jun 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Steve Wasserman
Transient States: On Mary Cassatt Transient States: On Mary Cassatt
In her printmaking the artist searched for a constantly elusive vision.
Jun 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Dirtying White Dirtying White
Why does Benn Steil’s history of Bretton Woods distort the ideas of Harry Dexter White?
Jun 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / James M. Boughton
White Wigs, Black Masks: On Surveillance Pop White Wigs, Black Masks: On Surveillance Pop
The cameras no longer look at us because we’re famous; we’re famous because they look at us to death.
Jun 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Hitler’s Classical Architect Hitler’s Classical Architect
Why is Léon Krier defending anew the work of the Third Reich’s master builder?
May 21, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin