Digging Up the Winter: A Collage about the Making of a Film
On the film adaptation of James Welch's 'Winter in the Blood'
On the film adaptation of James Welch's 'Winter in the Blood'
Michael PeckOct 27, 2012
The legacy of the hurricane in literature and Louisiana
Ingrid NortonOct 17, 2012
On 'Beauty and the Beast'
Aimee BenderOct 11, 2012
On the politicization of Wilder, author of 'Little House on the Prairie'
Caroline FraserOct 10, 2012
N]ot only the home park of the big soap-chip and sausage-stuffing tycoons, the home cave of the jukebox giants and the mail-order dragons, the knot...
Lori KozlowskiAug 23, 2012
TWENTY-SEVEN PAGES INTO The Eye (1965), Vladimir’s Nabokov’s narrator, hitherto a picture of sardonic indifference, suddenly goes all political on us...
Houman BarekatAug 4, 2012
a narrative that, even when circling away to the streets of Paris or the souks of Tangiers, continually spirals back to the figures by the roadside
Jennifer WallaceMar 30, 2012
many of us have spent the last decades living in a disappointed age, an age in which the entire notion of “revolution” became a joke
Jess RowMar 15, 2012
In his latest book, God is Red, Liao continues his study of the bottom rung of society by focusing on underground Christian communities in China.
Albert WuMar 8, 2012
While the cannibal was a prize specimen for theories of the state and human nature, he also posed a grave problem.
Steven ShapinMar 7, 2012
The only way to get to real cultural diversity is to tell stories in which the diversity is real.
John RomanoFeb 17, 2012
Hefner’s sexual tastes — sunny blondes with big boobs, in the main — became an American archetype.
Michaelangelo MatosFeb 14, 2012
IN THE SWIRL OF COMMENTARY surrounding Pulphead, the essay collection by John Jeremiah Sullivan, nothing seems to come up more than the so-called New...
Eric BeenFeb 10, 2012
Wading waist-deep into this hoard of history, smothered in the dust of centuries — he called it "genizaschmutz" — Schechter sifted for four weeks.
Benjamin BalintFeb 5, 2012
Whatever your take on this classically postmodern conundrum, you're liable to come away from Retromania with more questions than you had going in.
Mike McGonigalJan 9, 2012
These unanticipated truffles hiding deep in the gratin dauphinois of Gopnik's larger story remind us that food permeates every facet of our lives.
Thane TierneyNov 3, 2011
THE PAST DECADE HAS seen a surge of memoirs written by Iranian woman in exile, many of whom share their stories at the peril of angering or shaming...
Sholeh WolpeAug 25, 2011
Punk’s devotees had a lot invested in how things were turning out; one’s music of choice was a territory to be defended...
Grace KrilanovichAug 4, 2011
John Dower’s Cultures of War avoids the pitfalls of doing history by analogy.
Eli Jelly-SchapiroAug 1, 2011
AFFECTION FOR PLACE RUNS like a red thread through Rebecca Solnit’s work. Solnit is a writer without portfolio who has already produced histories...
Nikil SavalJul 28, 2011
Aslan's collection makes clear that the Arab Spring of 2011 reflects a century spent grappling with a postcolonial search for identity.
N. S. MorrisJul 21, 2011
It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.
Casey WalkerMay 30, 2011
The number is highly debatable, but it turns out that, Facebook aside, the average person has about 150 friends.
Michele Pridmore-BrownMay 24, 2011
Is contemporary fiction really so mediocre?
Mark McGurlMay 11, 2011