ARCHIVE:
September 2012
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Beginning To See
The music and cultural critic Ellen Willis’ essays were long arcs toward an answer she never reached.
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One Nation, Underpants
The triumphant return of Captain Underpants, hero to hyper, school-hating 8-year-olds.
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Archy and Nat’s Last Stand
Michael Chabon’s pop-culture-infatuated novel centers on a threatened used-vinyl store in Oakland.
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Blane and Andie, 25 Years Later
Andrew McCarthy’s memoir and Molly Ringwald’s novel suggest how hard it is to love like characters in movies.
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The Conscience
Jonathan Kozol has spent 45 years reporting on the children left behind.
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“I’m Not the Enemy”
Four new novels address the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the soldier’s perspective.
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Can’t Get You Out of My Head
The history of advertising jingles, a truly American art form.
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“You Got ‘Dinged.’ You Got ‘Blown Up.’ You Got ‘Thumped.’ You Got ‘Your Bell Rung.’ ”
Football books, old and new, glorify violence and toughness. Let’s hear it for one classic that was more concerned with a good time.
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“From the Bowl to the Mouth, the Soup Falls”
A detective investigates a murder in Ciudad Juárez, where death is a way of life.
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God Save the Queens
When gays are just like straights, what will the faeries and leather daddies do?
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The Audio Book Club on Gone Girl
Our critics take on Gillian Flynn’s thriller about a marriage gone bad.
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“How Is a Greek Chorus Like a Lawyer”
Artist Bianca Stone illustrates Anne Carson’s wondrous, frightening adaptation of Antigone.
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Lebowitz Goes Electric
Fran Lebowitz finally records her own audiobooks. Listen to her classic essay “Writing: A Life Sentence.”
