Culture
The Coen Brothers' Goodbye Song
Dec 10, 2013Inside Llewyn Davis deepens the duo's turn from satire to elegy
Sondheim Looks Back
Dec 06, 2013The composer reflects on his storied Broadway career in a new HBO documentary.
CNN Losing Interest in News
Dec 03, 2013Their leader says he wants more of "an attitude and a take." It's actually not a bad idea.
Outsider Art Heads Indoors
Nov 26, 2013Did Banksy's New York City sojourn leave behind a renewed appreciation for off-the-wall art? Maybe. Maybe not.
LBJ and Dallas's Mink Coat Mob
Nov 20, 2013In an excerpt from their book, Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis recount an ugly November 1960 confrontation between the vice presidential candidate and some the city's wealthy, conservative citizens.
LBJ and Dallas's Mink Coat Mob
Nov 20, 2013In an excerpt from their book, Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis recount an ugly November 1960 confrontation between the vice presidential candidate and some the city's wealthy, conservative citizens.
"Double Down" Was Written for Morning Joe—Not Posterity
Nov 15, 2013The campaign books of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are not designed to be read. They are written as fodder for cable TV news.
Korean Lit Comes to America
Nov 13, 2013The country frets that it trails China and Japan, which have won literary Nobels.
Why Lara Logan Won't Lose Her Job
Nov 12, 2013She's a rising star, and CBS doesn't fear liberals the way it fears conservatives.
When Robots Take Over, What Happens to Us?
Nov 11, 2013We interviewed James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, to see what happens when we're no longer the most intelligent inhabitants of Earth.
12 Years a Female Slave—Not Coming to a Theatre Near You
Nov 06, 2013We can't fully understand American slavery and its legacy without mining the diversity of enslaved experience in scholarship as well as film.
Bretton Woods Revisited
Nov 05, 2013John Maynard Keynes’s monetary strategy was awkward and utopian. Don’t underestimate what it accomplished.
Dave Eggers Is Worried about America
Oct 30, 2013The famously hopeful novelist's move to dystopian fiction in The Circle.
Mailer's Mark
Oct 29, 2013His writing turned out to be mortal. But in post–World War II American culture, he’s still a giant.
