Freed of the bonds of community...
There was a time when late-night wakefulness wasn't something to be dreaded but welcomed. Centuries ago, sleepers woke with pleasure, even eagerness. Between "first" and "second" sleep, so called, men...
The studio says that it authorized a 2004 novel, "The Godfather Returns," but not a 2006 follow-up, "The Godfather's Revenge," nor a new book, "The Family Corleone," that is planned for a May release.
Teaching social studies for social justice...
Teaching social studies for social justice...
Not everyone can say "nappy" and come away unscathed. Say it to, or even just near, the wrong person and it might just blow up in your face.
Deborah Eisenberg and Wallace Shawn read from Gregor von Rezzori's An Ermine in Czernopol at the Center for Fiction tonight; in honor of President's Day, a group of historians have constructed a thirt...
Deborah Eisenberg and Wallace Shawn read from Gregor von Rezzori's An Ermine in Czernopol at the Center for Fiction tonight; in honor of President's Day, a group of historians have constructed a thirt...
Colm Tóibín is fascinated by writers' relationships with their families. In New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a series of review-essays, he works away at and through his obsessions: family,...
The Third Reich (by Roberto Bolaño)IF ANY UNIVERSAL lesson may be drawn from modern European history, it is that evil cannot be permanently suppressed. Unreason recedes but invariably snaps back...
Brief object lessons in inventive sabotage [hell, if the hose fits... consequences of mass-production, the gas-fueled fallout of the Système Gribeauval spreading outward to the interchangeability of...
Northanger Abbey wants to condemn consumerism and champion the right kind of novel reading, but it can find no stable premises for the distinction...
The results of the shortage or lack of insurance coverage for generic Adderall XR forced many people to seek out name-brand Adderall XR, which, in turn, ran out. Then people, desperate for any ADHD ...
The photographs of Antonio Bolfo, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and former NYPD patrolman who took artistic photographs while on the job, humanize both officers and civilians. So says the T...
Democracy can save Europe...
Democracy can save Europe...
Sloan said her pint-sized customers clamor for the $1.09 caffeine-free drinks. “They feel like they’re drinking the same drinks as the bigger people,” said Sloan. Giving the drink even more cach...
The narrative is not written in stone...
The narrative is not written in stone...
Diane Ravitch Last week, the New York State Education Department and the teachers’ unions reached an agreement to allow the state to use student test scores to evaluat...
Goldstein argues that by keeping their kids at home, parents passively reinforce social segregation. I have sympathy for this view. But, truth be told, the minuscule number of secular home learners na...
The planet doesn't care about your eco-friendly lifestyle...
The planet doesn't care about your eco-friendly lifestyle...
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and culture's problem with bad mothers...
In 1929, anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapir wrote: “Few people realize that within the confines of the United States there is spoken today a far greater variety of languages … than in the wh...
Cormac McCarthy: copy editor. Disney picks up Michael Lewis's Moneyball...
Cormac McCarthy: copy editor. Disney picks up Michael Lewis's Moneyball...
I don’t particularly like dogs, at least not as a species. Some of them are perfectly lovely creatures I’m happy to share space with on an as-needed basis; others are sources of anything ranging f...
Certain writers are too weird to fully belong to their own time. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky—a Soviet writer obsessed with Kant and Shakespeare, whose own life barely rippled beyond a small coterie...
Certain writers are too weird to fully belong to their own time. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky—a Soviet writer obsessed with Kant and Shakespeare, whose own life barely rippled beyond a small coterie...
Cormac McCarthy has won some of the most coveted honors in literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to a spot on Oprah's Book Club, but now it may be time for Mr. McCarthy to add another laurel to his resu...
Why the country is so polarized...
Why the country is so polarized...
One indisputably sexy commodity...
One indisputably sexy commodity...
“The idea of pure, absolute expression is dead; it only temporarily survives in parodic form as long as our other enemies survive.” “Watching is work, not only in retroactively justi...
First of all, it is not cute or clever the way Linsanity is. It is clumsy and clunky; just doesn’t sound right. Moreover, the rhythm is wrong for a Chinese word, and believe me, rhythm is ve...
Everyone who writes about Downton Abbey accepts the premise that the show is a narrative of progress, the fin de siècle story of The Traditional that is about to be (and then is) buffeted by The Onru...
“Wars and panics on the stock exchange, machinegunfire and arson, bankruptcies, warloans, starvation, lice, cholera and typhus: good growing weather for the House of Morgan.” –John Dos Passo...
“What a typical picture for anyone from out of New York...."...
The Pope will die within a year...
The Pope will die within a year...
Amanda Knox signs $4 million deal with HarperCollins; George Murray closes Ninjabook...
Amanda Knox signs $4 million deal with HarperCollins; George Murray closes Ninjabook...
The Republican presidential nomination contest, which has entered a lull before it presses toward a probable showdown in March and April, when thirty primaries and caucuses will be held, has found its...
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (by Charles Murray)CHARLES MURRAY HAS lost interest in changing anybody’s mind. When the author of Coming Apart wants to substantiat...
Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, a place where the past is unusually tenacious. In recent years, neighboring capitals like Beirut and Amman have succumbed to Dubai...
On December 24, 2011, Mikhail Prokhorov—banking and mining billionaire, N.B.A. team owner, international playboy, and Russia’s third-richest man—set out to be among the people. A cro...
The weapons were housed in Long Island City, in a low-slung, prefabricated building on Northern Boulevard. I could hear them growling and yammering in the dark. I’d arrived well before dawn on a...
On December 16, 2007, on the two-hundred-and-thirty-fourth anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Ron Paul, congressman and Presidential candidate, presided over a nationwide fund-raiser. This was a new...
Asked how about the prospect of a late entry into the Republican race, Gingrich noted that it had happened in 1964 when “the establishment got terrified of Goldwater,” referring to Senator Barry G...
by Alex Rosenbaum...
Political Movements in Bahrain, Past, Present, and Future What We Owe to Each Other: An Interview with David Graeber, Part 1 and Part 2. The Moscow Protests, part one, two, three, and four When...
David Bromwich Metropolitan Museum of Art Enrique Chagoya: The Headache, A Print after George Cruikshank, 2010 The title “Infinite Jest” gives a very partial impression of the...
Could the Internet ever be destroyed?
Could the Internet ever be destroyed?
Charles Duhigg’s article in the New York Times Magazine and this excerpt from Joseph Turow’s book at the Atlantic make for good companion reading. Both are about the rise of data mining fo...
Adam Gordon, the narrator of Ben Lerner’s debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, is in Madrid for a year on a poetry fellowship. He’s there to write a long, research-driven poem on the literary...
At the turn of the 20th century, Theodore Roosevelt set out to transform the United States into a major world power.
New novels by David Snodin, Chan Koonchung, Liz Moore, Amy Franklin-Willis and Suzzy Roche.