|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By Michael Pollan
$17.79
By Thomas Sowell
$19.77
$23
|
|
|
|
AP / Ng Han Guan
|
It took two months and not-so-subtle protests from within and beyond the art world, but on Wednesday the Chinese government freed 54-year-old artist Ai Weiwei from prison, hinting at tax issues and not artistic dissent as the reason behind his stint in lockup.
Posted on Jun 22, 2011
READ MORE  | 672 READS
|
Flickr / Mild Mannered Photographer (CC-BY)
|
At least he’s being thorough. Shamed “30 Rock” star Tracy Morgan, who sparked anger with a homophobic rant at a standup gig in Nashville, Tenn., on June 3, returned Tuesday to the scene of his comedic crime to say he’s sorry. Seriously.
Posted on Jun 21, 2011
READ MORE | 625 READS
|
imdb.com
|
By Richard Schickel — “City of Life and Death,” by the Chinese writer-director Lu Chuan, is the second film about Nanking, and it is a work that aspires to the definitive and almost achieves that status.
Posted on Jun 18, 2011
READ MORE | 4774 READS
|
|
By Ebony Utley — Aaron “Big A.T.” Tremble, the main player in Terrance Dean’s debut novel, “Mogul,” is a music producer with a secret: He’s on the up-and-up in his career, but he’s also on the down low, struggling to come to terms with his sexuality at the risk of losing his family and his fame in the hip-hop industry.
Posted on Jun 17, 2011
READ MORE | 2635 READS
|
YouTube
|
Master of cinema bizarrité David Lynch is giving the Parisian nightlife a shot of his distinctive brand of surrealism by directing part of the production of a new nightclub, Silencio, based on his 2001 film “Mulholland Drive.”
Posted on Jun 15, 2011
READ MORE | 1133 READS
|
Wikimedia Commons / aphrodite-in-nyc (CC-BY)
|
Busting purveyors and consumers of unsanctioned online music circulation (aka piracy) has typically been the heavy-handed tack taken by record labels and other industry players, but one British outfit, Web Sheriff, prefers kid gloves. (more)
Posted on Jun 10, 2011
READ MORE | 1156 READS
|
|
By Steven B. Roberts —
The book lacks a narrative voice to set the scene, pull the reader along. Authors are not just tape recorders with expense accounts. They need to analyze, criticize, validate their characters. Here, they’re often missing in action.
Posted on Jun 9, 2011
READ MORE | 607 READS
|
Wikimedia Commons / Museo del Prado
|
It’s been noted before, by the likes of Marlon Brando and others, that art might be a socially sanctioned form of lying—or confabulating, as neuroscientists might call it. Could this be true?
Posted on Jun 7, 2011
READ MORE | 1735 READS
|
The Last Mountain / Vivian Stockman
|
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. beamed from the big screen this weekend, featured prominently in documentary filmmaker Bill Haney’s latest film, “The Last Mountain,” which opened Friday to positive reviews in New York and Washington, D.C.
Posted on Jun 5, 2011
READ MORE | 3430 READS
|
Flickr/konszvi (CC-BY-SA)
|
So you go online and noodle around, and if you’re like many other Internet users, you “Like” things on Facebook, buy some stuff and perhaps use Gmail. Somewhere in there, the little gnomes from Google and other data-gathering superpowers cobble together your cyber-profile.
Posted on Jun 3, 2011
READ MORE | 1486 READS
|
|
By John B. Taylor —
In “Reckless Endangerment,” Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner argue that cozy connections between government and the financial industry were the primary cause of the financial crisis.
Posted on Jun 2, 2011
READ MORE | 8919 READS
|
U.S. Dept. of Justice
|
Looks like Attorney General Eric Holder is a big fan of HBO’s “The Wire”—so much so, in fact, that he has strongly suggested that the crime drama’s writers work on another season of the retired series or perhaps a made-for-cable movie.
Posted on Jun 1, 2011
READ MORE | 889 READS
|
AP / Chris Pizzello
|
We will resist the impulse to do a cheesy riff on the lyrics of Leonard Cohen in reporting that the 76-year-old Canadian singer and poet is this year’s winner of Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias literary award.
Posted on Jun 1, 2011
READ MORE | 1055 READS
|
AP / Amy Sancetta
|
It’s an old cliché that new writers should write about what they know, and by all appearances Georgina Bloomberg, daughter of Mayor Mike and professional equestrienne, has done just that in her debut novel, “The A Circuit.” Read along as she doesn’t try very hard to convince a New York Times reporter that her first book is much of a departure from her life ...
Posted on May 31, 2011
READ MORE | 1482 READS
|
|
|
Blue Man Coup: How Gadhafi’s Mercenaries Broke Mali
Newsletter 
Become a Fan
Follow Us
Subscribe
