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Bookshelfies 23 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
Salon picked up on the Bookshelfie phenomenon, calling it "vanity for introverts," a snarky and inaccurate term. The Bookshelfie is a selfie with book covers. The format is simple. There's a self-port...
Life Lessons from Film Noir 21 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
Here's a line and commentary from Billy Wilder's great Ace in the Hole, which I've written about before. “Bad news sells best, ‘cause good news is no news.” Sometimes terrible stories get exploited ...
Slumming for Oscars in Historical Dramas 16 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
Once historical dramas were about how we looked at our collective past. Now they're about how we look at aging movie stars. It's not as if we're living through a golden age for historical dramas, eit...
Le Corbusier in Nature 16 Aug 2013 | 10:39 pm
Not only does the MoMA exhibit has a different perspective on Le Corbusier, but Alexandra Lange points out a new narrative for urban transformation. Perversely, for an architect that many blame (inco...
Richard M. Nixon, Ratfucker-in-Chief 13 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
August 9 was the thirty-ninth anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation from the Presidency. To mark the occasion the New York Review of Books has reposted some of its Nixon coverage. Most interestin...
Damascus, Emptied of Its Artists and Intellectuals 2 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
I took a walk round old haunts from the three years I spent living in Damascus. I peered through the grimy windows of Etana, a bookshop once filled with intellectuals, to see empty shelves and boxes. ...
Blue Collar Jasmine 1 Aug 2013 | 10:24 pm
Blue Jasmine is bad in ways that Allen's movies have been bad for at least two decades. It's too clearly enamored with well-to-do lifestyles to offer a meaningful critique of them. The psychological i...
Free Youssef Abdelke 1 Aug 2013 | 06:54 pm
The wife of the Syrian artist Youssef Abdelke has launched an online appeal in a bid to gain the release of her husband, who has been detained by the Syrian authorities since mid-July. Abdelke was arr...
Sensible Politics 30 Jul 2013 | 10:44 pm
The review is a bit of a puff piece, but MIT Press usually publishes quality work and this looks like an interesting volume of essays. Sensible Politics. The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activis...
The Birth of a Nation: But Here's the Thing 30 Jul 2013 | 07:02 pm
Xan Brooks summarizes the problem with The Birth of a Nation (1915), which has just been reissued in DVD and Blu-ray. D.W. Griffith's film was a faithful adaptation of a "spectacularly racist" nove...
