Archive

• The Incompleat Cynic: David Rakoff's "Half Empty"

  D. Charles WhitneyJul 22, 2011

  • Memoir & Essay

• Deceptively Simple

  Like her earlier works, Bad Marie is human, deeply-felt, delightfully well-honed, and though stylized, stops short of quirkiness for quirkiness’ sake.

  Shelley SalamenskyJul 22, 2011

  • Fiction

• Lighting Darkened Corners

  Aslan's collection makes clear that the Arab Spring of 2011 reflects a century spent grappling with a postcolonial search for identity.

  Jul 21, 2011

• Aberrant Behavior: On Alex Toth

  I knew Toth — not all that well, but well enough to realize at a certain point that avoiding contact with him was a positive and healthy lifestyle.

  Jul 20, 2011

• Sons and Fathers

  Miller is a classicist; he loves the melodrama of the comics form.

  Jul 19, 2011
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  Autumn of the Empire

  If you spot in the financial crisis something of the epic, you are not mistaken.

  Joshua CloverJul 18, 2011
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  The Ghost of Wrath

  Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.

  Mike DavisJul 15, 2011
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  The Time of Our Lives: On Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”

  As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads.

  Leo BraudyJul 14, 2011

• Romeo Byron Is Dead: Jessica Hagedorn’s “Toxicology”

  Hagedorn's lean, quick chapters and impressionistic scenes have the effect of sound bytes, and perfectly complement the tone of her world.

  Jul 13, 2011
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  Secret Histories

  aviator’s goggles, Victorian waistcoats, top hats, bustle skirts, leather corsets, bizarre, mechanical accessories

  John RiederJul 11, 2011

• Practicing on Patients

  But objectivity may be as elusive as cancer's cure.

  Jul 8, 2011
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  Theaters of Cruelty

  An excerpt from "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."

  Maggie NelsonJul 8, 2011

• The Eyes Think

  You look up again, and each small step forward unveils a newly unfamiliar scene.

  Jul 7, 2011

• Unfinished Form

  We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition.

  Lee KonstantinouJul 6, 2011

  • Literary Fiction

• Famously Married

  "Must You Go?" is both a wife’s reflection and a historian’s.

  Jul 3, 2011

• Legacy

  Bush ended his term in office with the lowest approval rating since they started keeping approval ratings.

  Jul 2, 2011