<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The New Republic Books & Arts]]></title><link>http://thenewrepublic/booksarts</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><language>en-ca</language><copyright>(c) CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.</copyright><managingEditor></managingEditor><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:58:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><category></category><generator></generator><item><title><![CDATA[In Defense Of Looseness: The Supreme Court's Wrongheaded Gun Control Decision]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=d2f38db8-3c8a-477e-bd0a-5bd56de0e7c0</link><author>Richard A. Posner</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At the end of June, the Supreme Court, in a case called 'District of
Columbia v. Heller,' invalidated the District's ban on the private
ownership of pistols. It did so in the name of the Second Amendment
to the Constitution. The decision was the most noteworthy of the
Court's recent term. It is questionable in both method and result,
and it is evidence that the Supreme Court, in deciding
constitutional cases, exercises a freewheeling discretion strongly
flavored with ideology.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-18:story.html?id=d2f38db8-3c8a-477e-bd0a-5bd56de0e7c0&amp;k=39014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence In Silken Lives; The Man Who Danced Between The Towers]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=59f569ce-37a9-499c-b65d-8d3ada0ff6f9</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Man On Wire,' (Magnolia)
'Frozen River,' (Sony Pictures Classics)
'A Girl Cut In Two,' (IFC)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-16:story.html?id=59f569ce-37a9-499c-b65d-8d3ada0ff6f9&amp;k=86414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, Everything Is Not Changing For The Better, And To Believe Otherwise Is Marketing Propaganda: Google Progressivism]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=06e305a5-5ea7-4e97-b283-fb2016460cfd</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, before the panicked society-wide attempt to expel
contingency from American life, existence was organized, or left
sufficiently unorganized, for the refreshments of serendipity.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-14:story.html?id=06e305a5-5ea7-4e97-b283-fb2016460cfd&amp;k=86292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jean Nouvel: Finally, A Deserving Starchitect]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6dec85c6-7fc0-45ce-89b9-f634f919f964</link><author>Sarah Williams Goldhagen</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Pritzker Architecture Prize is commonly described as 'the Nobel
Prize of architecture.' It was indeed modeled on the Nobel, and its
winners, like Nobel laureates, receive a bronze medal and a cash
award. This year the Pritzker committee got it right. It awarded its prize to Jean Nouvel, a sixty-three-year-old French architect based in Paris.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-14:story.html?id=6dec85c6-7fc0-45ce-89b9-f634f919f964&amp;k=83585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Happened While We Watched: Why We Didn't Save Darfur]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=36975a7c-224c-438a-9538-130b9e5cdd91</link><author>Richard Just</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/8137d59a-9e08-4da3-bbed-0619af48403b/0811Darfur_cover.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-11:story.html?id=36975a7c-224c-438a-9538-130b9e5cdd91&amp;k=50245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Pineapple Express' Replicates The Experience Of Being High: There's Hilarity, Tedium, Paranoia, And It All Ends In A Diner]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/06/the-mini-review-pineapple-express.aspx</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Call it the Summer of the Hybrid--and, no, I'm not talking about Priuses, for which the waiting lists are now reportedly as long as six months. No, this is the summer that 'The Dark Knight' tried semi-successfully to combine a superhero flick with a philosophical inquiry, 'Hancock' tried rather less successfully to combine the same with a substance-abuse melodrama (among other things), and 'The Happening' tried, with complete success, to combine a horror movie with the thrill of watching paint dry.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-09:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/06/the-mini-review-pineapple-express.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Man On Wire" And The Thrill Of Watching Someone Dance Between The Twin Towers]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=46c98fc9-fad6-496f-8dd1-d1978f6c8bc3</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['There is no 'why,'' Philippe Petit says he told the Port Authority
policemen who questioned him following his 45-minute promenade on a
high wire suspended between the towers of the World Trade Center on the
morning of August 7, 1974.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=46c98fc9-fad6-496f-8dd1-d1978f6c8bc3&amp;k=35181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TNR Q&A: 'Stuff White People Like' Author Thinks White People Wouldn't Know A Herd Mentality If It Trampled Them]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=ddd701ea-b6fc-4f72-baa8-350b46179301</link><author>James Martin</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last month, Christian Lander, creator of the hugely popular satirical website Stuff White People Like traveled to Washington, D.C. to promote his best-selling new book. Since going online in January, his site has generated an insane amount of traffic...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:story.html?id=ddd701ea-b6fc-4f72-baa8-350b46179301&amp;k=88785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traffic, The Meaning Of Life, And Why The Car Will Never Die]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=5acdbca9-b49b-43fd-b180-b8abb0c68675</link><author>Edward L. Glaeser</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)'

By Tom Vanderbilt (Knopf, 403 pp., $24.95)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=5acdbca9-b49b-43fd-b180-b8abb0c68675&amp;k=6785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanskrit Comes Alive! On The Wonders Of Ancient Indian Literature]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=9c627c2b-8763-4bf2-8614-f92496313773</link><author>David Shulman</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[CLAY SANSKRIT LIBRARY -- New York University Press]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/sanskrit inside.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-05:story.html?id=9c627c2b-8763-4bf2-8614-f92496313773&amp;k=78865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living Vicariously Through A Gay, British Gangster]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6a2e119e-1bd3-4400-bcf2-abff7dfae593</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['A Very British Gangster' -- Anywhere Road]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=6a2e119e-1bd3-4400-bcf2-abff7dfae593&amp;k=1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Swing Vote': Kevin Costner's Aggressively Mediocre Satire Is Too Chicken To Pick A Target]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=14beefbc-e3a9-4432-8706-cecf3225e312</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Swing Vote' stars Kevin Costner as a drunken loser who,
thanks to a voting glitch, gets singlehandedly to decide the
presidential election. Based on that brief description, you can
probably determine whether or not this is a movie you'd like to see, as it is neither appreciably better nor dramatically worse than its hokey, please-describe-me-as-'Capraesque' premise.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-01:story.html?id=14beefbc-e3a9-4432-8706-cecf3225e312&amp;k=92940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Underground Punk-To-Alt-Country Legend Finally Breaks Through]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=4d973bcc-5064-4081-baca-7e1fd89682ee</link><author>David Hajdu</author><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Alejandro Escovedo: 'Real Animal'

The greatest heroes of all are the ones unsung. They can be no less than glorious because the realm of their glory is the admiring mind. Essentially unchallengeable, the unsung are unbeatable.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-30:story.html?id=4d973bcc-5064-4081-baca-7e1fd89682ee&amp;k=92546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Are We To Do When The Truth Is A Moving Target?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=544eb124-2835-4c29-ad5a-0c6ea2cd4fd2</link><author>Simon Blackburn</author><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture' -- By Alan Sokal]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-28:story.html?id=544eb124-2835-4c29-ad5a-0c6ea2cd4fd2&amp;k=52000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What You Probably Shouldn't Do This Weekend: Watch "The X-Files" Movie]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=b6cae4f2-8acb-4a21-b044-b29e1910766b</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Here are a few things I remember from "The X-Files": Fox Mulder's sister was abducted by aliens. Dana Scully's dad's favorite song was "Beyond the Sea." Scully doesn't get along with tattoos that have Jodie Foster's voice. Mulder may or may not be destined to die of auto-erotic asphyxiation.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-25:story.html?id=b6cae4f2-8acb-4a21-b044-b29e1910766b&amp;k=41592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS's Too-Neglected Drama, 'Swingtown,' Offers So Much More Than Quaaludes And Dangerous Sex]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=c0fa0474-b934-4489-8cd8-78a6652ba81d</link><author>Sacha Zimmerman</author><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I have a dirty little secret: I've been watching 'Swingtown'--every
episode. That's right, the nasty show about 1970s suburban swingers,
the one with Grant Show (yes, from 'Melrose Place') in full mustachioed smarminess.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-24:story.html?id=c0fa0474-b934-4489-8cd8-78a6652ba81d&amp;k=58400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Wood's Masterly 'How Fiction Works' Answers The Essential Questions]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=72826d38-d82f-436c-a28f-60ebffa4d485</link><author>Frank Kermode</author><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[his admirable book is, among other things, a successful attempt to replace E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel as an accessible guide to the mechanics of fiction. Without losing sight of its promise to address the common reader rather than the specialist, How Fiction Works is much more sophisticated than Forster's book...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-22:story.html?id=72826d38-d82f-436c-a28f-60ebffa4d485&amp;k=79396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Films Worth Seeing]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=49c0771e-cfa1-4f1e-9610-4e03e06cae19</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Chris and Don.' An exceptionally moving documentary about Christopher Isherwood and his much younger artist-lover Don Bachardy who survives him, who lives still in their California house--still with him, figuratively. The film is pleasantly highlighted with old footage of the pair and of their famous visitors. (7/9/08)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-21:story.html?id=49c0771e-cfa1-4f1e-9610-4e03e06cae19&amp;k=2956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benjamin Bratt's 'The Cleaner': So Much Potential! Such Bad Dialogue!]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=1d87813c-5acb-4dc1-bf91-5d44c32e3d99</link><author>Sacha Zimmerman</author><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to portray addicts on television. They are often the
horrible parent, the schemer, the thief, or the good-time
Charlie--which is to say that they resemble real, breathing people
about as much as the cast of 'The Hills' does.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-21:story.html?id=1d87813c-5acb-4dc1-bf91-5d44c32e3d99&amp;k=42458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gorky And Tolstoy, Russia's Twinned Literary Superstars]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=74022519-053e-4ed5-bcdd-ab3de3c2e87d</link><author>Alexander Nemser</author><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, the future Maxim Gorky, was born in 1868 in Nizhni Novgorod on the Volga River, and grew up in what he later described in his melancholy, violent autobiography as 'that close-knit, suffocating little world of pain and suffering where the ordinary Russian man in the street used to live, and where he lives to this day.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-21:story.html?id=74022519-053e-4ed5-bcdd-ab3de3c2e87d&amp;k=96717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Purpose Of Sex; The Life Of Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=d748ecf1-aa7d-483b-a626-1701cd9e089d</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The French director Catherine Breillat uses plentiful sex in her films. This is notable not for its candor, a quality that is nowadays general, but for its cunning purpose.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-19:story.html?id=d748ecf1-aa7d-483b-a626-1701cd9e089d&amp;k=77524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Dark Knight': Yes, Heath Ledger's Great, But Aaron Eckhart Steals The Show]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=757af21c-1026-44f3-918b-ea35b135e350</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[How far can an idle entertainment be bent toward art without breaking? This is the question implicitly posed by Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight,' the first superhero film that makes a serious bid to transcend its burgeoning genre.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-18:story.html?id=757af21c-1026-44f3-918b-ea35b135e350&amp;k=60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Left's New Goddess: What's Wrong With Naomi Klein's Theory Of Everything.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420b</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It seems like a very long time--though in truth only a few years have passed--since the most sinister force on the planet that the left could imagine was Nike. In 2001, 'Time' proclaimed that the anti-globalization movement had become the 'defining cause' of a new generation, and that the spokesperson for the cause was the Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-18:story.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420b&amp;k=787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst, And Our Golden Age Of The Pseudo-Meaningful Stunt]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=b816718d-9587-4b89-83c1-218d0060db8c</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In my brief but thoughtful existence, I have permitted myself only
once the confidence to coin a law of life. It is that there is no
such place as rock bottom.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-17:story.html?id=b816718d-9587-4b89-83c1-218d0060db8c&amp;k=89128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Did The Dark Ages Come From? The Social Causes Of The Decline Of Ancient Civilization]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=d6cb03b8-a623-4b4a-938e-e178bfc8029e</link><author>Peter N. Miller</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-17:story.html?id=d6cb03b8-a623-4b4a-938e-e178bfc8029e&amp;k=95162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['WALL·E' Isn't Its Politics: The Movie's A Misplaced Valentine To Apple]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7927aa33-cbee-4701-b198-bc5bd9b0d320</link><author>Ben Crair</author><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pixar's new film, 'WALL·E,' is a dystopia, and so it is surprising that conservatives find it so distasteful--they usually love the genre. Neocons like Norman Podhoretz have posthumously ordained Orwell a believer...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-14:story.html?id=7927aa33-cbee-4701-b198-bc5bd9b0d320&amp;k=87754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Genius Director Stuffs Too Much Weirdness Into 'Hellboy 2']]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=beeab872-d540-49f8-b094-5cf70abe739e</link><author>Christoper Orr</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Near the midpoint of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, the titular demon is asked by his all-too-human girlfriend, 'Do you need everyone to love you? Or am I enough?']]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/hellboy.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-12:story.html?id=beeab872-d540-49f8-b094-5cf70abe739e&amp;k=13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can T.V Shows Tackle Sex Without Being Blandly Moralizing Or Porno-Lite?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=18f803f4-b69f-4b97-b535-7d66642e27ff</link><author>Sacha Zimmerman</author><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Television producers are starting to realize what publishers have long known: Adding the word "secret" to your title makes it sure to attract attention.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-11:story.html?id=18f803f4-b69f-4b97-b535-7d66642e27ff&amp;k=83244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have Freakonomicists Actually Revolutionized The Way We Think About Happiness?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=3bc0e959-3b4e-440d-9b99-69078429b82c</link><author>Alan Wolfe</author><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[HAPPINESS: A REVOLUTION IN ECONOMICS (MUNICH LECTURES IN ECONOMICS)]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/Bentham.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-09:story.html?id=3bc0e959-3b4e-440d-9b99-69078429b82c&amp;k=57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Magazine Legend Clay Felker Is The Father Of Google]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7e495b9e-2237-4afe-b7c4-c5e5b09903c2</link><author>Marc Weingarten</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We have already read much in his obits about how Clay Felker, who died last week at 82, transformed 'The New York Herald Tribune''s magazine supplement, 'New York,' into a primary outlet of what would become known as the "New Journalism."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-08:story.html?id=7e495b9e-2237-4afe-b7c4-c5e5b09903c2&amp;k=61610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Praise Of My Favorite Painter, Jean-Antoine Watteau, On The Day His Best Work Goes On The Block]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=80258530-0b95-454b-bd36-75c54ea0a7f1</link><author>Jed Perl</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I don't follow auctions. They represent a side of the art world--the
financial side--that I would just as soon ignore, especially when I
hear about the prices reached by contemporary art, which grow more
astonishing with each passing month.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-08:story.html?id=80258530-0b95-454b-bd36-75c54ea0a7f1&amp;k=78204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Billionaires ♥ Mao]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e92208b2-b57e-4028-8d09-543bcdc98393</link><author>Jed Perl</author><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cai Guo-Qiang: I want to Believe -- Guggenheim Museum]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-05:story.html?id=e92208b2-b57e-4028-8d09-543bcdc98393&amp;k=18860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Smith's 'Hancock' Is Two Bad Movies Combined Into One Terrible Movie]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=bf4e4236-4bd9-4014-8bcf-782b17f413c9</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It briefly looked as though the 4th of July might be up for grabs again. For about a decade, this week on the cinematic calendar had been officially unofficially reserved for Will Smith...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-02:story.html?id=bf4e4236-4bd9-4014-8bcf-782b17f413c9&amp;k=65268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Movie Review: 'Wall·E']]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f9f4b282-a76b-4504-8791-801868c0a948</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For over a dozen years now, the best name in American film has been Pixar. No movie star, no director, no writer, producer, or studio approaches its level of consistent excellence.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-27:story.html?id=f9f4b282-a76b-4504-8791-801868c0a948&amp;k=41317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Movie Review: 'Wanted']]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=d8fb5eaf-0813-41d2-8316-9feb058b99c3</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:26:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Any film that features Angelina Jolie as an international assassin is, pretty much by definition, a film that glamorizes violence. But 'Wanted,' the Hollywood debut of Kazakh-Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, does more than glamorize. It glorifies. It fetishizes. It consecrates.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-26:story.html?id=d8fb5eaf-0813-41d2-8316-9feb058b99c3&amp;k=41959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oPod Revolution]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6ee9bb51-bc5b-4ef9-a5ba-aef930e1271a</link><author>Alex Pappademas</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:31:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A couple years ago, 'GQ' asked John Kerry if he preferred the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. Kerry, never one to let an opportunity to appear human or interesting go unblown, refused to express a preference.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-26:story.html?id=6ee9bb51-bc5b-4ef9-a5ba-aef930e1271a&amp;k=5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Celluloid Capture True Love?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6f6a7edd-967d-46cf-88e0-85c4b5f36100</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Chris & Don: A Love Story (Zeitgeist)
My Winnipeg (IFC)
19th Annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-25:story.html?id=6f6a7edd-967d-46cf-88e0-85c4b5f36100&amp;k=78832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticisms Of China Have Only Made It Stronger]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f48d8fb7-6db3-4279-98a4-0be7964e5909</link><author>Andrew J. Nathan</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City'

By Lillian M. Li, Alison J. Dray-Novey, and Haili Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 321 pp., $27.95)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-24:story.html?id=f48d8fb7-6db3-4279-98a4-0be7964e5909&amp;k=12907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Films Worth Seeing]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f37eb842-ccb9-4c01-aea2-a57f567a0a75</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Chris and Don': This documentary about Christopher Isherwood and his partner Dan Bachardy, who was thirty years younger, is accomplished with emotional commitment, humor, subtle strength. The aging Don remembers and vivifies his late mentor and lover with affection and detail that recreates their interesting lives.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-21:story.html?id=f37eb842-ccb9-4c01-aea2-a57f567a0a75&amp;k=90260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nihilism and Capitalism In The Art World: U.S. Museums Are Now Fully-Owned Subsidiaries Of The Market]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=b24ee3a8-6d78-478f-9b95-a5b031d003c5</link><author>Jed Perl</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Broad Contemporary Art Museum -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/Koons.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-20:story.html?id=b24ee3a8-6d78-478f-9b95-a5b031d003c5&amp;k=65931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning! Mike Myers, International Man Of Mysticism, Is Now Desperately Unfunny.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=73a91246-d248-48c6-8152-370e9906f134</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The velvet suit has been swapped for silk robes. The mop-top has been replaced by Medusan curls of beard and moustache, the artificial overbite by a prosthetic nose. Yes, Mike Myers is back.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-20:story.html?id=73a91246-d248-48c6-8152-370e9906f134&amp;k=85774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Critic On Music And The Internet (And Why Radiohead Shouldn't Trick You Into Thinking You Can Rock)]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=2b354d15-f127-4893-8788-f76f4e3c8d9d</link><author>David Hajdu</author><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The urge to make the work our own is elemental to the act of
encountering art, and we try to satisfy it in many ways. We look at
a painting or listen to a piece of music and take it in, hoping
that it will prove to be not only an expression of human feeling
but also a stimulus to it; we expect art to move us in a personal
way. Or we buy the artwork or a copy of it, making our ownership
literal (if not always legal, in case of downloading bootleg
digital files). Or we wear our esteem for the work like a fashion
label, for the social or professional status it confers. Or we draw
inspiration from the work and apply it to things we make ourselves,
using whatever of it serves our needs. In one way or another, to
experience art of any kind is to appropriate it, and to be a
devotee of any art or artist is to be a claimant.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-19:story.html?id=2b354d15-f127-4893-8788-f76f4e3c8d9d&amp;k=68172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Genetic History Of The Jews, And What It Says About Jews Today]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=9406a32b-8dd2-4d0f-9c85-ac9beed5f206</link><author>Jerome Groopman</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Early in my career as a specialist in blood diseases and
cancer, I cared for a middle-aged man who had melanoma. The cancer had pread from an early lesion on his trunk to his lungs, liver, and
bones. He was a successful businessman, intelligent and outgoing, with  sharp sense of humor. Through the course of his treatment, we
developed a warm relationship, and he made it clear that, when the end ame, he wanted to be at home. As that time approached, he asked if I might see him one last time.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-17:story.html?id=9406a32b-8dd2-4d0f-9c85-ac9beed5f206&amp;k=64115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genghis Khan, Sensitive Soul: The Poetic Masculinity Of 'Mongol']]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=b670cd88-635f-4436-b15c-9617a7809ecc</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mongol -- Picturehouse]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-14:story.html?id=b670cd88-635f-4436-b15c-9617a7809ecc&amp;k=91547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Movie Review: 'The Happening']]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=75893f9a-3391-4ab5-88c8-cf7e74bcd835</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, 'The Happening,' is not merely bad. It is an astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined. It's the kind of movie you want to laugh about with friends, swapping favorite moments of inanity: "Do you remember the part when Mark Wahlberg … ?" "God, yes. And what about that scene where the wind … ?"]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-13:story.html?id=75893f9a-3391-4ab5-88c8-cf7e74bcd835&amp;k=61625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Movie Review: 'The Incredible Hulk']]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=1df2f779-cf30-44a8-95df-b3fcd7b8dc9a</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Louis Leterrier's 'The Incredible Hulk' is not a sequel to Ang Lee's 2003 'Hulk', but it could easily be mistaken for one. After a few minutes of expository flashback, the new movie begins pretty much where the earlier one ended, with scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) hiding out in South America after having suffered a massive radioactive accident that causes him now and then to transform into a decidedly unjolly green giant and break lots of things. The primary cast, too, is the same: Banner, his brunette semi-girlfriend Betty Ross (Liv Tyler), and her gruff, antagonistic father (William Hurt, sporting the exact silver brush cut and moustache that Sam Elliott wore the last time around), who also just happens to be the general in charge of tracking the Hulk down.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-13:story.html?id=1df2f779-cf30-44a8-95df-b3fcd7b8dc9a&amp;k=30436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style Versus Ideas: What Matters More In Literature?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e616b482-fff9-45e2-b33f-34282c73fed4</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia? That would be insane. Still, there's a chill on the back of the neck, a hint of the passage of time, when Traudl Junge's face appears. This documentary is called Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (Sony Pictures Classics). She is eighty-one years old here, neat, composed. She tells us that when she was twenty-two, Hitler engaged her as one of his private secretaries, and she stayed with him to the end. As she talks of his courtesy and care, of his affection for his dog and other such matters, we realize that after Junge and her contemporaries are gone, all that will be left of the twentieth century is history. Not many of us would want to collect personal souvenirs of Hitler--his shaving brush, his favorite tie; but this film reminds us that the minutiae of life in the past, actual life as it was traversed day by day, are often smothered by the large events around them. Would the loss of those details matter? Yes: Junge's recollections of Hitler are like glimpses backstage at an indescribable tragedy. The research of future historians may unearth more facts, but it cannot supplant the verity of this woman's being, her voice, our look into the eyes that actually saw.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2002-06-10:story.html?id=e616b482-fff9-45e2-b33f-34282c73fed4&amp;k=14218</guid></item></channel></rss>