category: culturewatch
Lights Out in Indiana
By Bob Liss, from June, 2013
The Devil's Party
By McKenzie Wark, from June, 2013
Spectacles of Disintegration
By David Golding, from June, 2013
The Four Lions, or: The Party Puffins of Allah
By Oliver Conant, from May, 2013
Star Time
By Bob Liss, from March, 2013
The H.D. Book
By Aram Saroyan, from February, 2013
Gilbert Sorrentino
By David Golding, from February, 2013
Call and Response
By Ben Kessler, from December, 2012
Hate Song
By David Golding, from December, 2012
Bob Dylan, Late Autumn
By Bob Levin, from December, 2012
Only Love Is Radical
By Casey Hayden , from October, 2012
Dreams from Our Avatars
By Benj DeMott, from October, 2012
Lebron Gets It
By Bob Liss, from July, 2012
Luis Reyes Rivera (1945-2012)
By Amiri Baraka, from July, 2012
The Garden of Chelm
By Bob Liss, from April, 2012
Manny and Bill, Willie and Joe
By Bob Levin, from April, 2012
Irrevocable
By Aram Saroyan, from April, 2012
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: Low Country Blues & The Artist
By Scott Spencer, from April, 2012
Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely
By Ben Kessler, from February, 2012
Porn Theater: On Houellebecq & Bolaño
By David Golding, from January, 2012
Matinees & Memories
By Bob Levin, from January, 2012
Marcel Mauss (& OWS)
By David Graeber, from October, 2011
Nat Tate
By Bob Levin, from September, 2011
Hard Call & Wise Responses
By Wesley Hogan, Ancella Bickley (et al.), from September, 2011
Strange Gods
By Robert Hullot-Kentor, from June, 2011
Impact, Impact, Impact: Anxiety and Lebron James
By Bob Liss, from June, 2011
Weiner’s Complaint
By Bernard Avishai, from June, 2011
The Woman in the Sunlight
By Amiri Baraka, Wesley Brown, Lawrence Goodwyn, Robert Hullot-Kentor, William Lhamon Jr., & David Waldstreicher, from March, 2011
On Present-Mindedness in the Writing of History
By Eugene Goodheart, from February, 2011
Hustle and Blows
By Milo George, from November, 2010
Hipsters 'R Us
By Ben Kessler, from November, 2010
Left Behind: The Rapture
By Charles O'Brien, from October, 2010
Appraising Tony Judt
By Eugene Goodheart, from October, 2010
Fish and Chips: The Crisis of the Humanities in the U.K. and U.S.A.
By Fredric Smoler, from October, 2010
When I Paint My Masterpiece
By Bob Liss, from July, 2010
Politics and Theater
By Alec Harrington, from April, 2010
Battles of Ajami
By Judy Gelman-Myers, from April, 2010
Nailing "Avatar"
By Fredric Smoler, from April, 2010
From Hunger
By Scott Spencer, from January, 2010
Two Nations
By Fredric Smoler, from October, 2009
On Lebron James
By Bob Liss, from June, 2009
To Criticize the Critic
By Charles O'Brien, from April, 2009
Modernity, Morality and Mimesis
By Michael Lydon, from August, 2008
Things Done Changed
By Armond White, from July, 2008
Unwritten Rules
By Benj DeMott, from July, 2008
Rock 'n' Roll
By Alec Harrington, from February, 2008
Refugees and Searchers Go to the Movies
By Armond White, from December, 2005
Tales From Behind the Black Curtain
By Armond White, from June, 2005
History Gets Lost in the Matrix
By Armond White, from June, 2003
Genius — Not!
By Armond White, from December, 2002
In My Lonely Room
By Ellen Willis, from June, 2002
A Strange and Bitter Spectacle
By Eric Lott, from June, 2002
A Child at the Oscars
By Armond White, from June, 2002
To Observe and Project
By Armond White, from August, 2000
Is Dan Mad?
By George W.S. Trow, from February, 1999
