Express
The Book Critics Circle Awards
By Allyson Polsky McCabeThe winners of the NBCC awards were announced last night at the New School to the anticipation, and sometimes surprise, of a standing room-only crowd.
RALLYING THE FREE (but not too Brave)
By Michael TerryIt was the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, and over ten thousand of America’s staunchest right-wingers had trekked in from all around the country to speak of freedom and fear, optimism and doom. Few appeared to notice the news from Egypt.
Breach the Contract
By Jason Flores-WilliamsThis generation has come to vicious crossroads. Do we give in to the hole we’re in, or claw our way into the twilight? Do we lower our heads and keep going along with the plan, or take a hard look in the mirror and try and salvage what we see?
LOVE + RADIANCE Marie Curie in Lauren Redniss’s Radioactive
By Alan LockwoodAs Harold Varmus put it in late January, before a full house at New York Public Library: Have people name two scientists and most will say Einstein and Madame Curie. Varmus, who directs the National Cancer Institute and shares a Nobel Prize for cancer research, was speaking with the artist and writer Lauren Redniss about her new book, Radioactive:Marie&Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout.
Docs In Sight
Truth and the Documentary Form
By Williams ColeOver the last decade or so it’s been repeated by film critic and documentarian alike that we’re now in a “Golden Age” of documentary film.
Future of the Living Dead
By Allen Wilcox“History teaches us that we rarely learn from history,” writes John Quiggin, Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland. This is an especially troubling cognitive tic for economists, who are often championed as soothsayers in our era.
THE PARTY’S OVER: Welcome to the “New Normal”
By David RosenIn a famous editorial in Life magazine of February 17, 1941, Henry R. Luce, founder of Time Inc., called upon Americans to abandon their deep-seated fear of international entanglements and support Britain through lend-lease during the early days of World War II. The son of Christian missionaries spreading the gospel in China, Luce was infused by an abiding belief in the “white man’s burden.”
Against the Underdogs
By Michael TerryMichael Prell’s new book, Underdogma, is the latest in an increasingly long line of books either articulating or examining America’s recent right-wing resurgence.
Pet Politics
By Brendan Carney ByrneIt would be reductive to say that Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One, a lumbering behemoth by the previously untested Adam Hines, is deeply in thrall to the mania for overdesign that plagues comic books that would consider themselves ambitious, but it sure is tempting.
