Arts & Culture

ILLUSTRATION: JOHN RITTER
THE CURRENT CINEMA: Battle Scars, by Anthony Lane
What does Michael Bay have in common with Werner Herzog? What links the showman behind “Transformers” with the maker of “Fitzcarraldo,” “Aguirre, Wrath of God,” and other excursions into savagery and silence?…
Daniel Zalewski on Herzog (2006)
Lane on Italian film

A CRITIC AT LARGE

Apparition in the Woods

by Alex Ross
Rescuing Sibelius from silence.
Ross on a season of Sibelius
(1998)

BOOKS

Fractured Franchise

by Louis Menand
Are the wrong people voting?
Menand on voting and pollsters (2004)

BOOKS

The Insurgent

by Tim Parks
Garibaldi and his enemies.
Browse Briefly Noted

THE THEATRE

Girl Talk

by Hilton Als
Old love and young love.
BROWSE THEATRE LISTINGS
Goings On About Town
PHOTOGRAPH: LANDON NORDEMAN
A selective guide to cultural events in and around New York City.
Browse Listings: THE THEATRE | ART | NIGHT LIFE | DANCE
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CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Gotta Dance

by Joan Acocella
The Royal Danish ballet, at Jacob’s Pillow.
BROWSE DANCE LISTINGS

POP NOTES

Deadly Unserious

by Ben Greenman
New songs by Loudon Wainwright III.
Browse Night Life Listings

TABLES FOR TWO

Perilla

by Lauren Collins
American and Asian influences, on Jones Street.
More Tables for Two
 
07 14, 2007
INTERESTING TIMES
George Packer on tautology and the Bush Administration.
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PODCAST
Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme’s 1974 short story “I Bought a Little City” on the monthly fiction podcast.
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BOOKS FROM OUR PAGES
“Twenty Grand,” Rebecca Curtis’s début short-story collection, has just been published. Read the title story and “The Alpine Slide.”
SLIDE SHOWS
Heads of State: Tom Bachtell’s portraits of George W. Bush.
In the Opium Den: Poppy eradication in Afghanistan, photographed by Aaron Huey.
Upward Bound: Engineering marvels created by Cecil Balmond and Arup.
THE FINANCIAL PAGE
The Pirates’ Code: James Surowiecki on what C.E.O.s can learn from Blackbeard.
AUDIO
Afghan Ambush: Jon Lee Anderson on a battle with the Taliban in the poppy fields.
A Wealthy Suitor: Ken Auletta talks about the future of the Wall Street Journal.
The Dating Game: Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz on the monthly fiction podcast.
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