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To Have and Have Not
As it builds its case for an inexorable conflict between democracy and capitalism, it leads its reader to an urgent question: how can democracy prevail?
Jedediah PurdyApr 24, 2014
Escape Artist
Charles Taylor reviews Johnny Moncada’s unseen photographs of Veruschka, the timeless model from the 1960s.
Charles TaylorApr 23, 2014
- Art & Architecture
The Age of Melting Glaciers
Joachim Radkau wants us to think of our current historical era as “The Age of Ecology.” Proctor argues “The Age of Melting Glaciers” would be more accurate.
Robert N. ProctorApr 22, 2014
- Science & Technology
Deconstructing De Man in the Digital Age
De Man’s life may have been scandalous, but why does his biography still strike a nerve, given deconstruction’s decline?
Jonathan FreedmanApr 22, 2014
He Worked at the Writer’s Trade
Greg Barnhisel reviews the letters of the literary eminence Malcolm Cowley.
Greg BarnhiselApr 22, 2014
- Literary Criticism
Walter Benjamin: Writings After Death
In his new collection of essays, “Walter Benjamin” urges that the story of art is one we should abandon, along with art itself.
Rachel WetzlerApr 21, 2014
- Art & Architecture
Faces of Faith
Scott KorbApr 21, 2014
Shrapnel and Song: On Contemporary Poetry from Afghanistan
Despite its oppression under the Taliban and beyond, the ancient culture of landay poetry persists in Afghanistan today, practiced almost exclusively by women.
Matthew RitgerApr 20, 2014
- Poetry
Barbara Mor’s "The Blue Rental:" Rooms Outside Hollywood, Hell, USA
Poet Barbara Mor's life's work’s appeared in Sulfur, Clayton Eshleman’s influential literary magazine of the 1980s and 1990s.
Edgar GarciaApr 19, 2014
- Poetry
Online and Offline in Cuba
This is one of three essays on Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground.
Anita Casavantes BradfordApr 18, 2014
- Science & Technology
Three Reviews: Emily Parker's "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground"
Anita Casavantes Bradford, Benjamin Nathans, Jason Q. NgApr 18, 2014
- Science & Technology
Oh What Voices
This is one of three essays on Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground.
Jason Q. NgApr 18, 2014
- Science & Technology
Like It or Not, They Too Are Fellow Netizens
This is one of three essays on Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground.
Benjamin NathansApr 18, 2014
- Science & Technology
Locked in Translation: Burmese Poets and the Silence of Witness
In the poetry of tragedy and resistance, silence collaborates with the audience in writing its own story.
Jerome MurphyApr 16, 2014
- Poetry
The Donald Fagen Papers
In his new collection of essays, Fagen pays tribute to the culture that spawned his sensibility and sound.
Lary WallaceApr 16, 2014
- Music
I Spy: Unraveling the Secrets of Adulthood
Casebook recalls the feeling of those Sunday nights when you’re a kid in school and the week is about to start; you feel the presence of something looming.
Susannah LuthiApr 15, 2014
- Literary Fiction