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.
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
Bon mots abound.
Glen RovenFeb 1, 2012
GIVEN THE MANY USES and abuses of the word "freedom," it stands to reason that our poetic history has produced a little epitome of its vexations...
Ange MlinkoJan 19, 2012
On two volumes of letters by Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett.
Michael NorthJan 17, 2012
FOR BOTH HIS MASTER OF ELLIPTICAL English prose and his flamboyant persona, Ernest Hemingway may well be the most influential American author of the...
Steven G. KellmanJan 17, 2012
IN STYLE IT TOOK THE SHAPE of any other garden party, that signal diversion of the interwar years. Tea and jellies, dancing and croquet, "lemon-ade"...
Lindsay RecksonJan 12, 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
21’s eloquence is visual, and it is a very real eloquence.
David RothJan 9, 2012
JUST WHEN YOU THINK AMERICA is going down the tubes, you read John Sullivan's essays (or David Foster Wallace's, or Rebecca Solnit's) and you think...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 7, 2012
Since her rediscovery by scholars over a decade ago, photographs of the Baroness have become, in their way, as iconic of the era of Dada as any.
Brian Kim StefansDec 16, 2011
And so it was that daughters, perhaps more relationally adept on average, became the more fertile conduit for paternal ambition.
Michele Pridmore-BrownDec 16, 2011
Hainley’s occasional lashings are needles meant to puncture consensus.
Brian SholisOct 20, 2011
For Eddy, recognizing a revolution often means writing like a revolution, with whatever messiness and tedium that implies.
Josh LanghoffSep 29, 2011
The most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published.
Steven J. RossSep 27, 2011
FOR A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, music can feel downright limiting sometimes. When I was 26 and reviewing records for Time Out New York (the weekly...
Sara MarcusSep 19, 2011
JANET MALCOLM'S Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial, an expansion of a 2010 New Yorker essay, explores Mazoltuv Borukhova’s trial...
Michael WashburnAug 18, 2011
Beauty linked to life and death.
Joy HorowitzMay 13, 2011
It is almost entirely abstract.
Joy HorowitzMay 13, 2011