Archive

• Back in the U.S.S.R.: Susan Sherman’s “The Little Russian”

  Sherman's readers become witnesses to the ways history can make and then re-make identity.

  Feb 6, 2012

• Support Our Troop: Alison Burnett's "Death by Sunshine"

  Troop self-consciously and self-loathingly follows the tradition of prior literati who migrated west to sell their souls to the industry

  Feb 6, 2012

• Believers: Krys Lee's "Drifting House"

  Lee's characters are forced to make the sorts of impossible decisions that turn regret into an indelible feature of the landscape.

  Feb 6, 2012

• Disjecta Membra: Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole's "Sacred Trash"

  Wading waist-deep into this hoard of history, smothered in the dust of centuries — he called it "genizaschmutz" — Schechter sifted for four weeks.

  Feb 5, 2012
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  Life in Storage: Of Capitalism and A&E's "Storage Wars"

  On the American culture of accumulation,

  
  

  and the author's addiction to A&E’s "Storage Wars."

  Peggy KamufFeb 4, 2012

• Greeneland

  Raymond Chandler once said that great writing, whatever else it does, nags at the minds of subsequent writers.

  Judith FreemanFeb 3, 2012

  • Memoir & Essay

• Golden Age

  Loren GlassFeb 2, 2012

  • History

  • Memoir & Essay

• The Pleasures of Listening

  Bon mots abound.

  Glen RovenFeb 1, 2012

  • Music

  • Nonfiction

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  The Wages of Narrative

  Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.

  John Durham PetersFeb 1, 2012
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  The Teacher of the Future

  The Chinese have a saying: “The past that is not forgotten becomes the teacher of the future.”

  Xujun EberleinJan 31, 2012

• Never Again, Again

  Spiegelman has yet to recover from the trauma of his creation's success.

  Jan 30, 2012
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  Crete Spring: An Appreciation for James Hillman (1926–2011)

  Louise SteinmanJan 29, 2012

• True Story

  on the mythology of film school.

  Jan 28, 2012
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  It's Dangerous to Be An Artist: An Interview with David Cronenberg

  A lot of filmmaking in America is nostalgia filmmaking, trying to recapture what you loved as a kid. I'm not a nostalgia freak.

  Jonathan PennerJan 28, 2012

• Inch by Column Inch

  Jan 27, 2012

• The Incomplete Cain

  On the grim hardness of a neglected noir master.

  Jan 26, 2012