Culture
Vacant Beauty, Boredom, and The Bling Ring
Jul 19, 2013With her latest film, Sophia Coppola emerges as successor to Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, master of disaffection and alienation.
Take Me Out with the Crowd
Jul 16, 2013Can numbers-happy fantasy sports replace team play as a metaphor for the American way of living?
All the News that's Fit to Reprint
Jul 12, 2013Aaron Sorkin's attempts to recycle long-mildewed news stories on The Newsroom—which begins its second season this Sunday—have grown modestly better! Sort of.
Coming to Do Good, Staying to Do Well
Jul 12, 2013D.C. is filled with young, dizzying ambition. This Town wishes the old-timers knew better.
New Treasure in Maine
Jul 10, 2013The Colby College Museum of Art reopens, ready to share its $100 million gift and quietly bold vision.
When It Comes to Kindles, Do You "Like" or Unlink?
Jul 05, 2013Social reading will bring us together while restoring a long tradition in the history of the book. Still …
All Tomorrow’s Parties
Jul 03, 2013Gay Equality 1, Civil Rights 0 – join us in wondering how to celebrate this Fourth of July. (Hint: not by seeing Johnny Depp’s new movie, that’s for sure.)
Putin Loves Me, Putin Loves Me Not
Jul 02, 2013A conversation with the author of a new book about the Russian president, touching on fomenting dissent in the country, Syria, and the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Burning Down the (White) House
Jun 28, 2013White House Down, when ranked among the other dull offerings of this summer blockbuster season, is worth its weight in kabooms. You will be entertained.
The Great Gandolfini
Jun 21, 2013The actor's genius was his knack for humanizing but not sentimentalizing his tough guy characters.
Revolution Until Imprisonment
Jun 19, 2013The documentary The Revolutionary, which documents the life of Charleston native and Chinese Communist Party member Sidney Rittenberg, looks at how political zeal becomes zealotry.
John Oliver's Summer Audition
Jun 18, 2013Jon Stewart's summer Daily Show replacement is doing just fine—but not fine enough that he endangers the Comedy Central king's reign.
Mo' Children, Mo' Problems
Jun 14, 2013Are the parents of only children selfish? Maybe, but Lauren Sandler’s new book says that's okay.
Agee, Before He Was Famous
Jun 13, 2013Can a rediscovered first draft of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men speak more directly to our time than the finished masterpiece?
George Packer's U.S.A.
Jun 11, 2013The author's chronicle of solitary Americans after the financial crash is nostalgic—but for what, exactly?
