Montreal
From Radical to Right-Wing: The Legacy of Eugene Genovese
If X, Then Why?
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention By Manning Marable (Viking Press, 594 pp., $30) I. READ MORE >>
Tarnished Stirling
“Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher”Exhibition runs until January 2, 2011 at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, and will then travel to the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. READ MORE >>
American Sublime
The Animator
Charles Dickens Michael Slater Yale University Press, 696 pp., $35 I. READ MORE >>
The Forgotten Greenhouse Gases
Carbon-dioxide is certainly the highest-profile greenhouse gas out there, but it's hardly the only one. There are also, for instance, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are used to make refrigerants and have become a popular substitute for ozone-layer-destroying CFCs, which have been phased out under the 1989 Montreal Protocol. HFCs don't chew through the ozone layer, but they do warm the planet—some types are thousands of times more effective at trapping heat than CO2. READ MORE >>
Poor Sport
Amid this city of endless scaffolding and ear-splitting construction are a few strangely quiet spots. The Olympic swimming pool is nearly done now––since workers have been told not to bother with a roof. Construction crews have been pulled off the unfinished light-rail line because Greece has given up on completing it before the Games begin on August 13. READ MORE >>
Parlor Game
Everyday Symbolist
Èdouard Vuillard: Post-Impressionist Master (National Gallery of Art; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) READ MORE >>
