Drone-Court Advantage
Progressives need to “D” up for the Big O’s second-term bid — if they know what’s good for them
The Revolution Unhinged
A review of Adam Thirwell's Kapow! in the context of experimental literary forms
The Revolution Goes Kablooie
A review of Adam Thirwell's Kapow! in the context of the Egyptian Revolution
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
Emmanuel Carrère seeks out the stories most people would rather not try to understand
Batman Occupied
Batman is too big to fail, in so many ways
Iron Gandhi
The introduction and conclusion of Norman G. Finkelstein’s What Gandhi Says speak of #OWS and the Arab Spring, implying they require Gandhian guidance. It may have well been called It's Gandhi Time!
Assemblage Required
In her poetry Eileen Myles pulls out all the stops -- just before stopping altogether.
Louder Than Bombs
Sometimes, I dream that the drone is going to attack, and I’m scared. I’m really scared. After the interview is over, Sadaullah Wazir pulls the pant legs over the stubs of his knees till they conceal the bone-colored prostheses.
Design Is a Bureaucrat
Tastemakers behind the contemporary mania for design will not rest until all consumers are compelled to put their shoulders to the clickwheel.
Just Another Princess Movie
The kingdom is in need of a marriage. She wants nothing to do with the suitors. She just wants to be free! And the crowd moans: Did the first girl Pixar movie have to be a princess movie?
Digressions of an Opium-Eater
Jeet Thayil's debut, Narcopolis, is as much a social novel as it is a drug novel
Vagina Analogues
The revolution in female sexuality made possible by vibrators finds its sinister counterpart in the revolution in warfare made possible by unmanned aircraft
Dancing Days
For men, stripping is just a job. For women, it's a psychological complex
The Question of Pain
The genius and demons of Pentagram’s Bobby Liebling
Camp Walker
Our reporter in South Korea sneaks onto the base to see what an amicable military occupation looks like.
Relatable Transitional Objects
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama establishes Alison Bechdel as the most important cartoonist working today