Books and Arts
August 24, 2012
Today’s Menu
All we got, mister, Is an empty bowl and a spoon For you to slurp Great mouthfuls of nothing, And make it sound like A thick, dark soup you’re eating, Steaming hot Out of the empty bowl. This poem appeared in the September 13, 2012 issue of the magazine. READ MORE >>
August 23, 2012
Bob: Remembering Robert Hughes
August 23, 2012
It’s Time to Retire the Late-Night TV Wars
August 22, 2012
The Wildly Overrated Andy Warhol
August 21, 2012
How College Bookstores are Killing College Bookstores
August 13, 2012
How Helen Gurley Brown Made the World Safe for Ladyblogs
August 10, 2012
On Making Moral Judgments About 'White Power' Music
It has been fashionable in the wake of Wade Michael Page’s tragic acts in Wisconsin to speculate on whether the White Power music he listened to helped stoke him into the senseless murders he committed. Such speculations, however, are as incoherent as they are pointless—and they are marked, above all, by a cloying air of self-congratulation. READ MORE >>
August 07, 2012
