Language Arts

The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism

With Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg has recast the debate about the origins and nature of anti-Semitism in Western thought.

Mar 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / R.I. Moore

No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis

No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis

How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?

Mar 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower

Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

Mar 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Holly Case

At War With Art

At War With Art At War With Art

The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.

Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / James W. Loewen

A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson

On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.

Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art?

Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art? Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art?

MoMA’s monumental exhibition recalls the time when abstraction affected people like love or revolution.

Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Hollywood Ending?

Hollywood Ending? Hollywood Ending?

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night

Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting

You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting

Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.

Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / David Auerbach

In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Stalker

Stalker Stalker

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

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