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All Art Is Propaganda

Ben Davis sums up art, class, and criticism in 9.5 Theses

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This Week's 5 Can't-Miss Book Events: For Rebels and Birdwatchers Alike

Animal Farm: 2013, 1998, 1954, 1946, 1879 Molasses Books Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., free This little piggy went to market. This little piggy stayed home. This little piggy wrote a politically charged parody a mere 14 delicate days after the 9/11 attacks and barely sidestepped legal action, but not witho ... More >>

Macbeth Set In A 1970s Eastern-Bloc Mental Institution

That's how one of the contributors on the popular site Broadwayworld.com describes the currently previewing production of Macbeth starring the daring Alan Cumming as the manipulated male of the title. Switching milieus of Shakespeare plays to update/enhance/comment on the text is nothing new, but ... More >>

You Can't Do S**T Anymore! What's Left?

You can't have sex anymore, for obvious reasons. You can't drink because people found out a while ago that it's an illness and now everyone's recovering and staying away from the devil booze as if it were death itself.

The Occupy Wall Street Library: Librarians Display the Ruins

Mike Bloomberg has already come under fire for just about every aspect of the late-night raid that cleared Occupy Wall Street out of Zuccotti last week. From reports of police violence, to keeping members of the press from observing the action, to disregarding a restraining order reopening the park, ... More >>

Fall Arts: Book Picks

THE ’80S ARE OVER

Party like it’s 1993 and you’re partying like it’s 1984

Peter Saul's Thrilling Tastelessness

Haunch of Venison helps the painter celebrate five decades of luridness

Wavy Gravy Portrait Keeps Up the Clown's Disguise

The King's Speech: How Therapy Saved Monarchy

NineteenEightyFour at the Austrian Cultural Forum; Megan Prelinger's Another Science Fiction

An exhibit and book look back at the future

Studies in Crap: "When you see those hot love pictures, it makes you feel like having sexual relations."

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Hell Over Hollywood: The Truth About the Movies! Author: Jitterbug-hating revi ... More >>

Josh Ozersky on His Upcoming Wedding Feast, the Demise of the Feedbag and (Food) World Domination

Jason Perlow/Hamburger AmericaJosh Ozersky and friend.​ Last Friday morning on the windswept tundra that was Soho, one half expected to encounter a pack of wolves trundling down Spring Street. Instead, a larger, equally hungry apparition materialized in the mercifully insulated confines of Bal ... More >>

Alphaville

Free Will Astrology: February 25 through March 3

Bloomberg's Term-Limits Coup: Heroes, Villains, and Wimps

Brutal brawling in the first throwdown of the 2009 elections

Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited

Clip Job: Young Socialists on Jack Kerouac

No Context: Speak Up! With Lou Reed, Moby, Antony, and More

Spying on Big Brother

Now you can find out if you're being surveilled by the FBI or the NYPD.

Rumsfeld Pressured to Resign

A troubled legacy in Iran, Iraq—but don't ignore the Secretary's war on privacy

The War on Privacy

Rumsfeld warns that the enemy can succeed in changing our way of life. It already has.

Anatomy of a Murder

Not only our enemies around the world scoff when Bush speaks of human rights

Stand Up Comics

Talking with Joe Sacco, the innovator of contemporary comics journalism

Bad Humour Man

A futuristic anatomy of the melancholy—and the sanguinary

Horoscope

The End of Democracy

Losing America's birthright, the George Bush way

The Big Flinch

Bones of a Blimp: How the loss of military virtues fosters a politics of militarism

Up in Smoke: What John Cougar Mellencamp Wanted to Say

Political Animals

Orwell's barnyard classic makes vivid hay of things onstage

Coffee and a Muffin

What Every Student Needs to Know: How to Beat Writer's Block

Gore Criticizes Bush's Handling of 9-11

But What Did Clinton's White House Know?

Public Notice

Psychogeographers Navigate New York City's Changing Landscape

'Red Means Big Brother's in Charge'

Watchdog Color-Codes Government Infringements on Privacy

Letters

We'll All Be Under Surveillance

Computers Will Say What We Are

Neohawks

Leftists Who Love the War Too Much

Ashcroft’s Master Plan to Spy on Us

'Citizens Will Not Become Informants'

Court Jousters

A Small Cartel of Conservative Lawyers Rewrites the American Rule

A Liberal Slant to the News?

This Book Is 'An Act of Treason'

John Ashcroft v. the Constitution

Giving the FBI a ‘Blank Warrant’

Crime Out of Mind

The New Thought Police Don't Care What You Do—Only What You Imagine

Big Brother at 'The Village Voice'

An ‘Unlimited Right’ to Surveil

Letters

Racism and Free Speech

Does a Rocker Lurk in You?

The Fidnet Files

Planned internet surveillance network proves spying is 'good government practice'

War Crimes as Spectator Sport

Birth Defects and Leukemia Ahead

Spycam Chic

The Surveillance Society: Part Two

Spycam City

The Surveillance Society: Part One