PLANK JUNE 8, 2012
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The western is usually considered the most American of film genres. There was a time, however, when it was downright subversive.
NYRB | 6 min (1, 379 words)
Is China the next great global power? Maybe. But the country's rulers are weak and insecure. Witness their response to, of all things, a flower.
Slate | 10 min (2, 469 words)
Christopher Isherwood was a vain, misanthropic, anti-Semitic hypochondriac. But the diaries of his later years reveal that he could also be, against all his better instincts, loving.
The Guardian | 8 min (2, 008 words)
Lewis Black is back. Not with a rant, or a lecture, but with a play.
The New Yorker | 3 min (827 words)
