Culture
Tel Aviv Rorschach
The Attack, a tasteful thriller about a Palestinian suicide bombing, will please both sides of the divide. And that's its problem.
Michael Atkinson
No Punches Pulled
A brilliant new graphic novel takes a nostalgia-free trip to the 1930s.
Paul Buhle
We Need Bats
Don't discount their 'keystone role' in our ecosystem.
Dawn Starin
The Violently Killed Femmes
From Hemlock Grove to Hannibal, TV just can't get enough of dead teenage girls.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Bring on the Trash
Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby gets the tackiness right, but the flappers wrong.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Powerball Trip
How a proposal for a socially conscious lottery panicked corporations and birthed the 9-figure jackpot.
Matthew Vaz
Leaning In While Black
Can Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's manifesto speak to women of color?
Tamara Winfrey Harris
Upstream Color Reinvents Cinema
We've seen the future of film, and it's incomprehensible.
Michael Atkinson
Will the Real Betty Draper Please Stand Up?
In Mad Men's new season, we need the slap-in-the-face Betty back.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Suicide by Appointment
A soldier's story of living precariously with PTSD. And of a government unable to help him.
Richard Baker
Zen and the Art of Corporate Overthrow
HBO's 'Enlightened' was the best send-up of capitalism on TV.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
No Self-Help Wanted
You are not the only thing holding you back.
Richard Greenwald
Black and Bengali
A new book traces the hidden story of a mixed-race community.
Fatima Shaik
Bigelow and the Boys Club
The Zero Dark Thirty director isn't Miss Congeniality.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Here’s to You, Mrs. Robeson
Barbara Ransby's new book shines the spotlight on Eslanda Robeson--activist, writer and yes, Paul Robeson's wife.
Eleanor J. Bader
Guantanamo Declassified
Why did it take 12 years to bring the 9/11 conspirators to trial? A new book provides a withering look.
Peter C. Baker
‘Forget About Morality’
Two Oscar-nominated documentaries present footage of Israel and Palestine you'll never see on network TV.
Michael Atkinson
Eighty at Last
On Amour and pitying the elderly.
Jane Miller
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