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Tasting Notes: A Year in Wine & Poems (Part 2)
Roberts continues exploring the wonders and obstacles of making wine and making poems.
Katrina RobertsJul 15, 2013
What Is This Review Interested In?: On Frederick Seidel’s Review of Rachel Kushner’s “The Flamethrowers”
On Seidel's "NYRB" critique of Kushner's "Flamethrowers."
Nicholas MirielloJul 13, 2013
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Chapter one of Aslan's forthcoming book
Reza AslanJul 11, 2013
Post-Scarcity Economics
Why are some pundits and economists still enamored of austerity?
Tom StreithorstJul 11, 2013
- Economics and Finance
Love and Loneliness: Adult Authors of Y.A. and Children’s Literature
'Serious' authors who have written Y.A./Children's lit
Jul 10, 2013
Through a Glass, Always: Abbas Kiarostami’s "Like Someone in Love"
On Abbas Kiarostami’s film 'Like Someone in Love'
Lindsay TurnerJul 8, 2013
Egypt’s Last Day of Democracy
Waiting for the end.
Carol Berger, Marie-Jeanne BergerJul 6, 2013
Poets at the Movies (Part 3): The Lunar Mice of My Generation
J. M. Tyree, Michael McGriffJul 5, 2013
In the Words of Sparks
Ron and Russell MaelJul 4, 2013
Wanted: 2016 Presidential Candidates
Does the American Left take itself seriously enough to get involved in the 2016 presidential election?
Tom GallagherJul 4, 2013
An Aesthetics of Earliness
On poets Hamilton, Riviere, Hazzard, McLarney, and Cronk
Deryn Rees-JonesJul 3, 2013
Brazil: The Ground Shakes in the Country of Inequalities and Paradoxes
Rebellion in the streets, social media, and progress.
Luiz E. Soares, Magdalena EdwardsJul 1, 2013
Seize the Day: Bellow on Film
Reviewing the attempts to put Saul Bellow’s novels on film
Peter RainerJul 1, 2013
At War with the Obvious, Obviously
Geoff NicholsonJun 30, 2013
“The Very Stuff of Life”: BBC’s “Call the Midwife”
Stephanie BowerJun 30, 2013
Dostoevsky, Inequality, and Tsarnaev’s Humanity
Pressure cookers.
Elizabeth StokerJun 29, 2013