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p15 34 photos i 1 By Irina Ivanova
From the March 12, 2010 issue | Posted in Culture
Think the city isn’t what it used to be? This spring, several venues around the city ask you to consider the question. read more »

By Bennett Baumer
From the March 12, 2010 issue | Posted in Books, Culture, Reviews
The monster is Mexico City (known in Spanish as D.F., for distrito federal), and El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City is a brief history of Mexico through the monster’s eyes written by Nation and La Jornada contributor John Ross. read more »

By Ann Schneider
From the March 12, 2010 issue | Posted in Books, Culture, Reviews
In his new book, NYPD Confidential, Levitt follows the rise and fall of former Police Commissioners Lee Brown, Bill Bratton, Howard Safir and the now-disgraced Bernie Kerik. read more »

By Eleanor J. Bader
From the March 12, 2010 issue | Posted in Books, Culture, Reviews
Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke’s Beyond the Echo Chamber enthusiastically trumpets the rise in “citizen journalism.” The book further celebrates the information sharing that has resulted from the internet’s nearly ubiquitous presence. read more »

By Jacob Scheier
From the February 19, 2010 issue | Posted in Books, Culture, Reviews
"Something is wrong with America’s moral imagination,” former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass told the audience at the most recent Dodge poetry festival in New Jersey in fall 2008. read more »

By Rico Cleffi
From the February 19, 2010 issue | Posted in Books, Culture, Reviews
Martin Glaberman, a longtime associate of C.L.R. James, once observed that the staggering scope of James’ writing often meant, “Everyone produces his/her own James. People have, over the years, taken from him what they found useful, and imputed to him what they found necessary. read more »

By Judith Mahoney Pasternak
From the February 19, 2010 issue | Posted in Culture, Film, Judith Mahoney Pasternak
“Oscar” is getting older—this year marks the 82nd awards ceremony for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But movie lovers will have to wait until March 7 to find out whether or not he has, in fact, become wiser. read more »

By Raj Patel
From the January 29, 2010 issue | Posted in Culture, Film, Reviews
Under what rock have you been hiding to miss the storm around James Cameron’s environmental parable, Avatar? Certainly not beneath a hunk of unobtanium: it floats. read more »

By Amy L. Dalton
From the January 29, 2010 issue | Posted in Culture
On Saturday, Jan. 23, a dozen musicians, comedians and spoken word artists teamed up at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater for a multilingual, transnational explosion of Muslim arts and culture. read more »

By Bennett Baumer
From the January 8, 2010 issue | Posted in Books, Culture, Reviews
A Review of The Death of Conservatism by Sam Tanenhaus and Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party by Max Blumenthal read more »