category: culturewatch
Caravaggio (1571-1610)
By John Berger, from September, 2015
Part Three
By Karen Hornick , from August, 2015
Doom in the Bud: Golding's Studies in a Dying Culture
By David Golding, from August, 2015
Enigma & Genius: On Lebron James and Draymond Green
By Bob Liss, from August, 2015
Kazin, Bellow and Trilling: A Triptych
By Eugene Goodheart, from August, 2015
Part Two
By Karen Hornick , from August, 2015
"Money" Mayweather: A Postmodern Triumph
By Bob Ingram, from May, 2015
Teaching the Conflict
By Benj DeMott, from May, 2015
Seven Weddings and a Funeral
By Ben Kessler, from May, 2015
Serial Storytelling in the 21st Century or, If Knausgaard Is the New Proust, Can Elena Ferrante Be the New Tolstoy?
By Karen Hornick , from May, 2015
A Grown Woman's Tales of Detroit
By Marsha Music, from May, 2015
Between Good and Evil: Your NCAA and Mine
By Bob Liss, from April, 2015
The Chocolate Speaks
By Bob Levin, from April, 2015
Hotlips
By Bob Ingram, from March, 2015
10th and Bainbridge Blues
By Bob Levin, from March, 2015
Mindless Pleasures
By Ben Kessler, from February, 2015
The Resistance to American Sniper
By Fredric Smoler, from February, 2015
The Eternal Engine
By P.J. Podesta, from January, 2015
Endangered Species
By Scott Spencer, from January, 2015
Uncool World
By Lex Brown, from October, 2014
IMMA LET YOU FINISH
By Ben Kessler, from October, 2014
Wonders Come to Pass
By Sam Abrams, from July, 2014
Gentleman in Distress
By Bob Levin, from July, 2014
Doing the Math
By Lex Brown, from July, 2014
Wait Till Last Year
By Bob Liss, from July, 2014
Existential Bugsquash
By Ben Kessler, from July, 2014
Roger & Me
By Adele Levin, from July, 2014
Double Happiness: Al Green & Zinedine Zidane
By Benj DeMott, from July, 2014
Rank Culture
By Lex Brown, from June, 2014
Mumblecrit
By Ben Kessler, from June, 2014
An Opening of the Field
By Thomas Evans, from June, 2014
Love Generation: Virginia Admiral Remembers Robert Duncan
By Virginia Admiral, from June, 2014
The Question of Taste: Bill Berkson
By Bill Berkson & Jarrett Earnest, from May, 2014
The Anti-War of Harvey Kurtzman
By Bob Levin, from April, 2014
Black Mountains Beyond Mountains
By Amiri Baraka, Edward Dorn & Claudia Moreno Pisano, from April, 2014
High Low Country: The Baraka/Dorn Correspondence
By Benj DeMott, from April, 2014
From Farce to Koan: Knicks Lure Phil Jackson Home
By Bob Liss, from April, 2014
The MLA: Singled Out for a Double Standard
By Bernard Avishai, from February, 2014
Beat Better, Beat Worse
By Richard Meltzer, from February, 2014
P.C. on the Right
By Eugene Goodheart, from January, 2014
Poetry & Money
By Aram Saroyan (& Oliver Conant), from January, 2014
Love Song for Lou Reed
By Alison Stone, from December, 2013
Isaac and Isaiah
By David Golding, from December, 2013
Bad Writing & Good Writing
By Michael Lydon, from October, 2013
Confessions of a Spiritual Pornographer
By Bob Levin, from October, 2013
Anti-Fascist Art Class
By Greil Marcus, from October, 2013
Going Pop: From Hirschhorn's Folly to Macklemore's Heist
By Benj DeMott, from October, 2013
Ain' Time Yet: Colliding Eras in Lebron's Stormy Reign
By Bob Liss, from August, 2013
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