http://thenewrepublic/booksartsen-ca(c) CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:39:00 GMThttp://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=c6570f94-f4b8-4b2a-b3f5-6adefe8d15caSlavoj Zizek and Adam KirscheWed, 07 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2009-01-07:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=c6570f94-f4b8-4b2a-b3f5-6adefe8d15cahttp://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=904cc51b-42d9-4439-a2cb-7d3eee3fba26Sarah Williams GoldhagenTue, 06 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2009-01-06:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=904cc51b-42d9-4439-a2cb-7d3eee3fba26http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=3cb8eb63-e509-461f-8c62-46c996248638Tim WuSat, 03 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2009-01-03:story.html?id=3cb8eb63-e509-461f-8c62-46c996248638&k=21733http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f1420021-7c36-4fc1-9697-9baa3de6f346Christopher OrrThu, 01 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2009-01-01:story.html?id=f1420021-7c36-4fc1-9697-9baa3de6f346&k=80411http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=808134de-7d2f-462d-a3a1-815ab827fb2aJeffrey HerfTue, 30 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-30:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=808134de-7d2f-462d-a3a1-815ab827fb2ahttp://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/12/29/how-tnr-exposed-a-new-oprah-endorsed-memoir-as-a-hoax.aspxGabriel ShermanMon, 29 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-29:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/12/29/how-tnr-exposed-a-new-oprah-endorsed-memoir-as-a-hoax.aspxhttp://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=91de36ee-ef8b-4695-99c9-8c0d8c28d1ecGabriel ShermanFri, 26 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-26:story.html?id=91de36ee-ef8b-4695-99c9-8c0d8c28d1ec&k=54671http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e406ff52-7990-44f7-9b72-1ea86a2c193dDavid HajduThu, 25 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMTTen of my favorite musical things from 2008, in roughly descending order of favoriteness.]]>tag:canada.com,2008-12-25:story.html?id=e406ff52-7990-44f7-9b72-1ea86a2c193d&k=89590http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=da6ab794-feb6-49c3-a261-a0ab48a54295Christopher OrrWed, 24 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-24:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=da6ab794-feb6-49c3-a261-a0ab48a54295http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=89564d02-0878-4322-a307-7621aeffc1d4Jed PerlWed, 24 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-24:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=89564d02-0878-4322-a307-7621aeffc1d4http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f458c2c8-0d4f-4dc7-8cba-15e465c2201aGabriel ShermanTue, 23 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTAngel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived. The author, Herman Rosenblat, who is a retired television repairman now living in Miami, recounts his experience as a teenage boy during the Holocaust at Schlieben, a sub-division of the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. In the winter of 1945, Herman meets a nine-year-old girl--herself a Jew masquerading as a Christian at a nearby farm--when she shows up one day outside the camp and tosses him an apple over the barbed-wire fence. For the next seven months, the girl at the fence delivers Herman food each day, until he is suddenly transferred to another camp. Fast forward to Coney Island, 1957: Herman, now in his 20s and settled in New York, reluctantly agrees to a blind date with a young Polish immigrant named Roma Radzicki. They speak of their time during the war. Roma mentions a boy she had helped to survive in a camp. She said she fed him apples. A flash of recognition. Months later, Herman marries Roma, his angel at the fence.]]>tag:canada.com,2008-12-23:story.html?id=f458c2c8-0d4f-4dc7-8cba-15e465c2201a&k=74333http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=3f86ee5f-7896-4a52-af9b-e86b2387f3e4Adelle WaldmanMon, 22 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-22:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=3f86ee5f-7896-4a52-af9b-e86b2387f3e4http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=796c8426-14b3-40a8-b6b3-2f81b0c33ecdNorman ManeaFri, 19 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-19:story.html?id=796c8426-14b3-40a8-b6b3-2f81b0c33ecd&k=86374http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=3b4e3726-1bca-4a1c-9016-71e5b922dad9Christopher OrrFri, 19 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-19:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=3b4e3726-1bca-4a1c-9016-71e5b922dad9http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=5261a554-75a7-41e9-8ffd-949b2b8f4c23Cathy YoungMon, 15 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-15:story.html?id=5261a554-75a7-41e9-8ffd-949b2b8f4c23&k=54274http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f2362238-e0a0-4917-a56c-4d59bc456462Oren HarmanMon, 15 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-15:story.html?id=f2362238-e0a0-4917-a56c-4d59bc456462&k=88777http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=1fb48fe8-1d1c-4088-a435-f72087238c07Anthony GraftonSun, 14 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-14:story.html?id=1fb48fe8-1d1c-4088-a435-f72087238c07&k=50579http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a59b33e1-f1c1-489a-84b0-46acd81f82f0Jed PerlSat, 13 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-13:story.html?id=a59b33e1-f1c1-489a-84b0-46acd81f82f0&k=34169http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=4a75ee79-d0ac-45a1-b957-556c43aceb79Christopher OrrSun, 14 Dec 2008 04:59:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-13:story.html?id=4a75ee79-d0ac-45a1-b957-556c43aceb79&k=5442http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/12/12/jimmy-fallon-still-not-funny.aspxAdam BaerSat, 13 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-13:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/12/12/jimmy-fallon-still-not-funny.aspxhttp://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=1cd8c945-ea78-4c35-a926-200c6b50e6caChristopher OrrFri, 12 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTDoubt, which writer/director John Patrick Shanley has adapted for the screen from his Pulitzer-winning play. Set in a Catholic School in the Bronx in 1964, the story centers on two antagonists: Father Flynn (Hoffman), a friendly, popular, progressive young priest who may or may not have taken advantage of one of the boys at the school; and Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the cold, backward-looking disciplinarian who suspects that he did. Caught between these two poles and attracted in alternation to one and then the other is a naïve young nun, Sister James (Amy Adams). Also making an appearance is the boy’s mother (Viola Davis), who suggests that any untoward attentions her son received may not have been unwelcome.]]>tag:canada.com,2008-12-12:story.html?id=1cd8c945-ea78-4c35-a926-200c6b50e6ca&k=42107http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=82d98b54-e2b6-408a-ab44-5bd36c653ae6Ruth FranklinThu, 11 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-11:story.html?id=82d98b54-e2b6-408a-ab44-5bd36c653ae6&k=25549http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=29ea3086-f342-47d8-bfc0-ce727500d2b6Sacha ZimmermanThu, 11 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-11:story.html?id=29ea3086-f342-47d8-bfc0-ce727500d2b6&k=94456http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=9121625e-7c5a-4db3-bedc-1d3ebf3a63b5Alvaro Vargas LlosaWed, 10 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-10:story.html?id=9121625e-7c5a-4db3-bedc-1d3ebf3a63b5&k=57043http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=afbe08a2-cc77-4035-a74e-3507ca073e0dCaryl PhillipsMon, 08 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-08:story.html?id=afbe08a2-cc77-4035-a74e-3507ca073e0d&k=46396http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a228c367-4cde-460d-a7cd-f9be741af001Stanley KauffmannSat, 06 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-06:story.html?id=a228c367-4cde-460d-a7cd-f9be741af001&k=68006http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/12/02/the-worst-cinematic-trend-of-the-year.aspxChristopher OrrWed, 03 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-03:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/12/02/the-worst-cinematic-trend-of-the-year.aspxhttp://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=b37014a1-6e81-4c0b-96d3-a7c195896623Sherwin B. NulandMon, 01 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-12-01:story.html?id=b37014a1-6e81-4c0b-96d3-a7c195896623&k=74482http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=bae528a0-0959-46d5-bda7-07d85c0585a6Stanley KauffmannSat, 29 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-29:story.html?id=bae528a0-0959-46d5-bda7-07d85c0585a6&k=12113http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=097a31f3-c440-4b10-8894-14197d7a6eefAdam KirschSat, 29 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-29:story.html?id=097a31f3-c440-4b10-8894-14197d7a6eef&k=49852http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/26/your-holiday-movie-guide.aspxChristopher OrrThu, 27 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-27:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/26/your-holiday-movie-guide.aspxhttp://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/25/the-mini-review-milk.aspxChristopher OrrWed, 26 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-26:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/25/the-mini-review-milk.aspxhttp://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a616e676-f444-47eb-95fc-6446ff2ef86eCarina ChocanoTue, 25 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-25:story.html?id=a616e676-f444-47eb-95fc-6446ff2ef86e&k=32357http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=cc906761-e1aa-46da-a619-dba2ad3fa7e9Christopher OrrTue, 25 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-25:story.html?id=cc906761-e1aa-46da-a619-dba2ad3fa7e9&k=64943http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=ab9d84bd-506b-4935-98e6-f84f241e7b54Nathan GlazerMon, 24 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-24:story.html?id=ab9d84bd-506b-4935-98e6-f84f241e7b54&k=69411http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=3a9e15a5-8fe1-4248-b47e-bf9e5f5cea79Javier MariasMon, 24 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-24:story.html?id=3a9e15a5-8fe1-4248-b47e-bf9e5f5cea79&k=17559http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=4b0e0f27-1bbd-4d93-88b2-f4b8eb20d7ffChristopher OrrSat, 22 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-22:story.html?id=4b0e0f27-1bbd-4d93-88b2-f4b8eb20d7ff&k=76582http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e817bbe9-c29b-437e-97fb-c187c6c5fd4fChristopher OrrFri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-21:story.html?id=e817bbe9-c29b-437e-97fb-c187c6c5fd4f&k=60551http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e7095c8e-d0f1-4bbf-a697-aaeb63479021David BrowneWed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-19:story.html?id=e7095c8e-d0f1-4bbf-a697-aaeb63479021&k=33101http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=bc27617c-32b3-438f-8e4c-799c53af1b68Christopher BenfeyMon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-17:story.html?id=bc27617c-32b3-438f-8e4c-799c53af1b68&k=80646http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8914e3c4-d511-4a41-8aad-d7c6c354e095Christopher OrrFri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-14:story.html?id=8914e3c4-d511-4a41-8aad-d7c6c354e095&k=20791http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=885b2972-0b59-4a34-8d42-8c3f6995d378Stanley KauffmannFri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-14:story.html?id=885b2972-0b59-4a34-8d42-8c3f6995d378&k=95929http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a95d87ec-a365-4250-91fc-d0f105d6961cPaul StarrThu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-13:story.html?id=a95d87ec-a365-4250-91fc-d0f105d6961c&k=27490http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=c7672c5f-3300-476e-9b51-5745766fbb75Jenna Weissman JoselitThu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-13:story.html?id=c7672c5f-3300-476e-9b51-5745766fbb75&k=20287http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=c562972c-8951-49a0-b4e9-f8045a7e287fSam TanenhausWed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-12:story.html?id=c562972c-8951-49a0-b4e9-f8045a7e287f&k=47871http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8f4a68c0-888d-4548-b398-c628af7d1765Christopher OrrWed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-12:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8f4a68c0-888d-4548-b398-c628af7d1765http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=eedbe68c-59a6-473f-aa54-9414807799efSteven HahnTue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-11:story.html?id=eedbe68c-59a6-473f-aa54-9414807799ef&k=33067http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=316e86cd-809c-4996-8d51-19a032449befAlexander NemserMon, 10 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-11-10:story.html?id=316e86cd-809c-4996-8d51-19a032449bef&k=4550http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=0f279ffe-3445-4814-8bc8-fee6ebf4945fChristopher OrrFri, 07 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMTSynecdoche, New York. But they might just as easily serve as a warning to prospective moviegoers.]]>tag:canada.com,2008-11-07:story.html?id=0f279ffe-3445-4814-8bc8-fee6ebf4945f&k=72641http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=2b4e0d40-7167-4193-bd3b-fcebb49e19e9Christopher OrrFri, 31 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMTClerks and Chasing Amy, Kevin Smith pioneered the kind of tender raunch that, under Judd Apatow, has come to dominate American comedy. As Apatow himself once put it, “Kevin Smith laid down the track.” Now, though, the train has left the station and, like everyone else, Smith is desperately trying to climb back aboard. Indeed, there is perhaps no greater testament to Apatow’s cultural hegemony than the fact that even the isolated comedies released these days that he neither produced, co-wrote, nor directed strive so mightily to look as if he did.]]>tag:canada.com,2008-10-31:story.html?id=2b4e0d40-7167-4193-bd3b-fcebb49e19e9&k=17444http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8a250bfa-c9ce-44b9-8025-a4bcaa0a3698Christopher OrrThu, 23 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMTChangeling arrive early. Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles, readies her nine-year-old son, Walter, for school; heads to her job as a telephone operator supervisor (nice detail: the roller skates she wears to glide quickly from one end of the phone bank to the other); promises Walter she’ll take him to a movie on Saturday; etc. In his better films, Eastwood has taken care with such scene-setting, meticulously establishing the moods of working-class Boston or the rituals of the gym. Here, by contrast, there’s a rushed, tentative quality to Eastwood’s direction, perhaps even a slight discomfort with the rhythms of female domesticity. The exposition is too obviously expository. It’s a small fault, but it portends larger ones.]]>tag:canada.com,2008-10-23:story.html?id=8a250bfa-c9ce-44b9-8025-a4bcaa0a3698&k=61767http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=22db6638-6ce5-48fd-809c-20c59c934f36Christopher OrrTue, 12 Jul 2005 04:00:00 GMTMillion Dollar Baby won the Oscar for Best Picture, it united critics across the spectrum, from middlebrow to aesthete, in almost universal praise. It was "nearly flawless," "a breathtaking human drama," "the cinematic equivalent of Hemingway." This consensus was challenged by only a few scattered naysayers, who described the film as "celluloid hooey," "phony, simplistic, and cheap," and "a compendium of every cliché from every bad boxing movie ever made."]]>tag:canada.com,2005-07-12:story.html?id=22db6638-6ce5-48fd-809c-20c59c934f36&k=14981http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=167888db-5102-4d1b-8116-32b6286a2b06Christopher OrrTue, 15 Jun 2004 04:00:00 GMTMystic River is Clint Eastwood's twenty-fourth feature film as a director. Since his debut behind the camera (he was also in front of it) in Play Misty For Me in 1971, he has directed more movies than either Martin Scorcese or Steven Spielberg. Some are memorable (Unforgiven), some are awful (Absolute Power), and at least one is equal parts each (A Perfect World; if you've seen it, you know which part is which). Mystic River is his most complex and assured effort to date, a near-classic that falters due to an accretion of many small flaws and one large one.]]>tag:canada.com,2004-06-15:story.html?id=167888db-5102-4d1b-8116-32b6286a2b06&k=94844http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6999ea00-c994-4dcc-ba37-3e135eb57ec6Christopher OrrFri, 17 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMTRachel Getting Married, the budding star adds a few pounds--I would not like to guess the relative contributions made by costume, prosthetics, and old-fashioned calories--and sports a black bob so rough it might have been pruned with gardening shears. Her wardrobe runs the full spectrum from black to dark gray and from baggy to baggier. She smokes constantly, cigarettes in cinema having seamlessly evolved from totems of style to badges of neurosis. Except on those infrequent occasions when she flashes her gigawatt smile, she looks like a refugee from the Gashlycrumb Tinies.]]>tag:canada.com,2008-10-17:story.html?id=6999ea00-c994-4dcc-ba37-3e135eb57ec6&k=91716http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=fe349a02-fc2e-4320-92d2-5a0ad59a0922Christopher OrrFri, 17 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-17:story.html?id=fe349a02-fc2e-4320-92d2-5a0ad59a0922&k=29329http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f291faad-7bc3-4c65-ad32-c4fe760c7889Stanley KauffmannSat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-25:story.html?id=f291faad-7bc3-4c65-ad32-c4fe760c7889&k=96366http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8a250bfa-c9ce-44b9-8025-a4bcaa0a3698Christopher OrrFri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-24:story.html?id=8a250bfa-c9ce-44b9-8025-a4bcaa0a3698&k=61767http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=0830b40d-cd01-4e09-98a6-2d7c68bc1dbaPeter N. MillerThu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-23:story.html?id=0830b40d-cd01-4e09-98a6-2d7c68bc1dba&k=39888http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=d60edecb-9038-4b1d-8c89-32d4dea976b9Jed PerlWed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTThe Banquet Years, published exactly half a century ago, to his last major work, Forbidden Knowledge, Shattuck was one of America's most adventuresome students of modernity, at once a celebrant of some of the wildest reaches of artistic experiment and a critic of the twentieth century's dream of unlimited, ever- expanding horizons. In The Banquet Years, he saluted a quartet of fiercely independent, indomitably idiosyncratic figures--Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Guillaume Apollinaire--and brought a rapturous, almost cinematic eye to his evocations of the social exhilaration of fin-de-siècle Paris. In Forbidden Knowledge, a book composed in a beautifully dry and even laconic manner, he wondered if there are dimensions of experience, whether scientific or sexual or moral, that modern men and women, for all their overwhelming desire, cannot usefully absorb.]]>tag:canada.com,2008-10-22:story.html?id=d60edecb-9038-4b1d-8c89-32d4dea976b9&k=53763http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7b4189be-545c-4875-be6e-71c4d87029ffHelen VendlerMon, 20 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-20:story.html?id=7b4189be-545c-4875-be6e-71c4d87029ff&k=77157http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=01a4dbee-0f47-42ad-8cda-6861e16d059eStanley KauffmannSat, 18 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMTStranded. In 1972 a Uruguayan plane went down in the snowy Andes and, after fruitless searches, was considered lost. But some passengers survived . In this absorbing documentary, made recently, some of those survivors, now white-haired, return to the scene with their children, and reconstruct the grim, thrilling story. (From the upcoming 11/5/08 issue.)Ballast. If there were such a thing as a quiet gem, this would be it. A compact drama about three black people in the Mississippi Delta, a taciturn storekeeper, his late brother’s former innamorata, her young son. Lance Hammer, the director, helped his three non-professionals to make an intense, taking film. (10/22/08) I Served the King of England. The lyrical light tone of this Czech film is a kind of bitter counterpoint to its story of political accommodations. The hero is a young waiter who moves smoothly through always swankier restaurants, in the World War Two days, until reality intrudes. (9/10/08) Man on Wire. One of a kind. This documentary about a tightrope walker -- he walked a wire between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 -- grows beautifully from mere excitement about a daring act to an account of almost metaphysical aspiration. And it’s funny, too. (8/27/08) --SK]]>tag:canada.com,2008-10-18:story.html?id=01a4dbee-0f47-42ad-8cda-6861e16d059e&k=98156http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6999ea00-c994-4dcc-ba37-3e135eb57ec6Christopher OrrSat, 18 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-18:story.html?id=6999ea00-c994-4dcc-ba37-3e135eb57ec6&k=91716http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=182bf8d3-1c5f-46c1-b884-da80a2d03b20John McWhorterSat, 18 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-18:story.html?id=182bf8d3-1c5f-46c1-b884-da80a2d03b20&k=55170http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=cdbb66cd-da49-4ee1-abb2-41464a553c0aCass R. SunsteinSat, 18 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-18:story.html?id=cdbb66cd-da49-4ee1-abb2-41464a553c0a&k=76531http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=fe349a02-fc2e-4320-92d2-5a0ad59a0922Christopher OrrFri, 17 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-17:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=fe349a02-fc2e-4320-92d2-5a0ad59a0922http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7a626d8a-bbf4-4669-bc35-80a33b2cbbd9Gordon S. WoodFri, 17 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-17:story.html?id=7a626d8a-bbf4-4669-bc35-80a33b2cbbd9&k=86834http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=cdbb66cd-da49-4ee1-abb2-41464a553c0aCass R. SunsteinThu, 16 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-16:story.html?id=cdbb66cd-da49-4ee1-abb2-41464a553c0a&k=76531http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=118a51f8-5f69-4a3f-a445-1872e5e59081David HajduWed, 15 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-15:story.html?id=118a51f8-5f69-4a3f-a445-1872e5e59081&k=66924http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=28f83881-61a0-43e9-9e16-19651ed62623Damon LinkerTue, 14 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-14:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=28f83881-61a0-43e9-9e16-19651ed62623http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=101c878e-0786-4e75-a9f4-91d1aa746224Stanley KauffmannSat, 11 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-11:story.html?id=101c878e-0786-4e75-a9f4-91d1aa746224&k=15497http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=dc14631b-c54a-446a-a3ad-b236b6ed97d1Christopher OrrFri, 10 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-10:story.html?id=dc14631b-c54a-446a-a3ad-b236b6ed97d1&k=30495http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=dc88024f-c1f6-47e0-b88c-58bc8983f703David N. MyersThu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-09:story.html?id=dc88024f-c1f6-47e0-b88c-58bc8983f703&k=24446http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=08352be4-7ca3-468b-90de-25c32b40c17bJames WolcottTue, 07 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-07:story.html?id=08352be4-7ca3-468b-90de-25c32b40c17b&k=4027http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=00557769-6eb7-42cb-a175-93a2cf19f624Stanley KauffmannFri, 03 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT]]>tag:canada.com,2008-10-03:story.html?id=00557769-6eb7-42cb-a175-93a2cf19f624&k=97774http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=047206f7-6649-4d9c-8ddf-99fdeb815756Christopher OrrFri, 03 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTCity of God, was a discomfiting masterpiece, a sad tale of children killing children in the slums of Rio de Janeiro that was also one of the most ferociously stylish, entertaining films of the last decade. His 2005 follow-up, The Constant Gardener, was very nearly the opposite: a somewhat silly global conspiracy thriller with a presentation as high-toned and laborious as a brochure from the World Health Organization. I don’t know whether Meireilles intended the latter film to serve as penance for the giddiness of the former, but if so it seems he is, alas, still trying to make amends. His latest film, Blindness, makes The Constant Gardener look like, well, City of God.
]]>tag:canada.com,2008-10-03:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=047206f7-6649-4d9c-8ddf-99fdeb815756http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e98fb4ae-3069-4054-a486-bb9ce483a233Ruth FranklinThu, 02 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-02:story.html?id=e98fb4ae-3069-4054-a486-bb9ce483a233&k=87422http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a2f4c02d-5d6f-4ddc-9dce-f11cef8bfd3eAlan WolfeWed, 01 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-10-01:story.html?id=a2f4c02d-5d6f-4ddc-9dce-f11cef8bfd3e&k=70081http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=977de916-1914-47f4-9c92-00e1541fbff3Christopher BenfeyTue, 30 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-30:story.html?id=977de916-1914-47f4-9c92-00e1541fbff3&k=13940http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=08c9a783-120d-46fd-8137-3c5daabb1dddChristopher OrrFri, 26 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-26:story.html?id=08c9a783-120d-46fd-8137-3c5daabb1ddd&k=88621http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a34221bf-5286-498e-b3eb-3984de48f9cfFrancesca MariTue, 23 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-23:story.html?id=a34221bf-5286-498e-b3eb-3984de48f9cf&k=4347http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=01a03a83-080f-4f09-8e74-2907b705e94eSherwin B. NulandMon, 22 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-22:story.html?id=01a03a83-080f-4f09-8e74-2907b705e94e&k=82885http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=1e499f1f-f44e-4903-baf1-ad068eca7e87Stanley KauffmannSat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-20:story.html?id=1e499f1f-f44e-4903-baf1-ad068eca7e87&k=99218http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=198a309c-ebfb-49d8-b202-adac0286ba96Christopher OrrFri, 19 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-19:story.html?id=198a309c-ebfb-49d8-b202-adac0286ba96&k=91447http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e4a8b27d-8474-40bd-a026-b39d1d5e319cMichael IgnatieffThu, 18 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-18:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e4a8b27d-8474-40bd-a026-b39d1d5e319chttp://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=27ab9fbc-6e71-4795-8608-5875a0ce6fb6Leon AronWed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-17:story.html?id=27ab9fbc-6e71-4795-8608-5875a0ce6fb6&k=55049http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a5dbfee9-b657-443f-9576-c0b9fc5d379aIngrid D. RowlandMon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-15:story.html?id=a5dbfee9-b657-443f-9576-c0b9fc5d379a&k=70413http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=82e5f476-666b-4bab-9914-2bcb1538d843Stanley KauffmannSat, 13 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-13:story.html?id=82e5f476-666b-4bab-9914-2bcb1538d843&k=50471http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a7d34497-1ee3-4744-b90b-e216454901eaChristopher OrrFri, 12 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-12:story.html?id=a7d34497-1ee3-4744-b90b-e216454901ea&k=26069http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=1b484581-85dd-43af-b371-d3aa1c5bf70bJed PerlWed, 10 Sep 2008 03:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-10:story.html?id=1b484581-85dd-43af-b371-d3aa1c5bf70b&k=30734http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=da4b9aa8-1fa2-4010-ad88-7bd1a99935e7Jed PerlTue, 09 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-09:story.html?id=da4b9aa8-1fa2-4010-ad88-7bd1a99935e7&k=9981http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=701916b5-4f75-4a2b-8fa2-535badfb4ffeBenny MorrisMon, 08 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-08:story.html?id=701916b5-4f75-4a2b-8fa2-535badfb4ffe&k=55912http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=ee0bfdfa-b946-412d-a8a7-775db50b5cf0Stanley KauffmannSat, 06 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-06:story.html?id=ee0bfdfa-b946-412d-a8a7-775db50b5cf0&k=20982http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=524f3d26-15a4-4a2b-8bee-b8819c2692caMarc Steglitz and Jed PerlSat, 06 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-06:story.html?id=524f3d26-15a4-4a2b-8bee-b8819c2692ca&k=90653http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=5adeed59-4ca0-443a-bc34-828405d7a5f9Robert M. SolowThu, 04 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-04:story.html?id=5adeed59-4ca0-443a-bc34-828405d7a5f9&k=30801http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=5e00f17c-b3ea-4d67-8590-e87724e32075Sam TanenhausTue, 02 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-09-02:story.html?id=5e00f17c-b3ea-4d67-8590-e87724e32075&k=60054http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=511ec724-6299-4bf4-adf7-38059cff16aeMartha C. NussbaumFri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-29:story.html?id=511ec724-6299-4bf4-adf7-38059cff16ae&k=76271http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=a4162feb-c7d1-4547-8308-18430d2a33deChristopher OrrFri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-29:story.html?id=a4162feb-c7d1-4547-8308-18430d2a33de&k=8316http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=792c4586-f811-4b1b-acf6-42a059e42931Stanley KauffmannSat, 23 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-23:story.html?id=792c4586-f811-4b1b-acf6-42a059e42931&k=67103http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=d2f38db8-3c8a-477e-bd0a-5bd56de0e7c0Richard A. PosnerMon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-18:story.html?id=d2f38db8-3c8a-477e-bd0a-5bd56de0e7c0&k=39014http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=59f569ce-37a9-499c-b65d-8d3ada0ff6f9Stanley KauffmannSat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-16:story.html?id=59f569ce-37a9-499c-b65d-8d3ada0ff6f9&k=86414http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=06e305a5-5ea7-4e97-b283-fb2016460cfdLeon WieseltierThu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-14:story.html?id=06e305a5-5ea7-4e97-b283-fb2016460cfd&k=86292http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6dec85c6-7fc0-45ce-89b9-f634f919f964Sarah Williams GoldhagenThu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-14:story.html?id=6dec85c6-7fc0-45ce-89b9-f634f919f964&k=83585http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=36975a7c-224c-438a-9538-130b9e5cdd91Richard JustMon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-11:story.html?id=36975a7c-224c-438a-9538-130b9e5cdd91&k=50245http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/06/the-mini-review-pineapple-express.aspxChristopher OrrSat, 09 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-09:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/06/the-mini-review-pineapple-express.aspxhttp://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=46c98fc9-fad6-496f-8dd1-d1978f6c8bc3Christopher OrrFri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=46c98fc9-fad6-496f-8dd1-d1978f6c8bc3&k=35181http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=ddd701ea-b6fc-4f72-baa8-350b46179301James MartinThu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-07:story.html?id=ddd701ea-b6fc-4f72-baa8-350b46179301&k=88785http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=5acdbca9-b49b-43fd-b180-b8abb0c68675Edward L. GlaeserWed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=5acdbca9-b49b-43fd-b180-b8abb0c68675&k=6785http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=9c627c2b-8763-4bf2-8614-f92496313773David ShulmanTue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-05:story.html?id=9c627c2b-8763-4bf2-8614-f92496313773&k=78865http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6a2e119e-1bd3-4400-bcf2-abff7dfae593Stanley KauffmannSat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=6a2e119e-1bd3-4400-bcf2-abff7dfae593&k=1670http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=14beefbc-e3a9-4432-8706-cecf3225e312Christopher OrrFri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-08-01:story.html?id=14beefbc-e3a9-4432-8706-cecf3225e312&k=92940http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=4d973bcc-5064-4081-baca-7e1fd89682eeDavid HajduWed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-30:story.html?id=4d973bcc-5064-4081-baca-7e1fd89682ee&k=92546http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=544eb124-2835-4c29-ad5a-0c6ea2cd4fd2Simon BlackburnMon, 28 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-28:story.html?id=544eb124-2835-4c29-ad5a-0c6ea2cd4fd2&k=52000http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=b6cae4f2-8acb-4a21-b044-b29e1910766bChristopher OrrFri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-25:story.html?id=b6cae4f2-8acb-4a21-b044-b29e1910766b&k=41592http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=c0fa0474-b934-4489-8cd8-78a6652ba81dSacha ZimmermanThu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-24:story.html?id=c0fa0474-b934-4489-8cd8-78a6652ba81d&k=58400http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=72826d38-d82f-436c-a28f-60ebffa4d485Frank KermodeTue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-22:story.html?id=72826d38-d82f-436c-a28f-60ebffa4d485&k=79396http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=49c0771e-cfa1-4f1e-9610-4e03e06cae19Stanley KauffmannMon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-21:story.html?id=49c0771e-cfa1-4f1e-9610-4e03e06cae19&k=2956http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=1d87813c-5acb-4dc1-bf91-5d44c32e3d99Sacha ZimmermanMon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-21:story.html?id=1d87813c-5acb-4dc1-bf91-5d44c32e3d99&k=42458http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=74022519-053e-4ed5-bcdd-ab3de3c2e87dAlexander NemserMon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-21:story.html?id=74022519-053e-4ed5-bcdd-ab3de3c2e87d&k=96717http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=d748ecf1-aa7d-483b-a626-1701cd9e089dStanley KauffmannSat, 19 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-19:story.html?id=d748ecf1-aa7d-483b-a626-1701cd9e089d&k=77524http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=757af21c-1026-44f3-918b-ea35b135e350Christopher OrrFri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-18:story.html?id=757af21c-1026-44f3-918b-ea35b135e350&k=60500http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420bJonathan ChaitFri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-18:story.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420b&k=787http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=b816718d-9587-4b89-83c1-218d0060db8cLeon WieseltierThu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-17:story.html?id=b816718d-9587-4b89-83c1-218d0060db8c&k=89128http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=d6cb03b8-a623-4b4a-938e-e178bfc8029ePeter N. MillerThu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-17:story.html?id=d6cb03b8-a623-4b4a-938e-e178bfc8029e&k=95162http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7927aa33-cbee-4701-b198-bc5bd9b0d320Ben CrairMon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-14:story.html?id=7927aa33-cbee-4701-b198-bc5bd9b0d320&k=87754http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=beeab872-d540-49f8-b094-5cf70abe739eChristoper OrrSat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-12:story.html?id=beeab872-d540-49f8-b094-5cf70abe739e&k=13554http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=18f803f4-b69f-4b97-b535-7d66642e27ffSacha ZimmermanFri, 11 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-11:story.html?id=18f803f4-b69f-4b97-b535-7d66642e27ff&k=83244http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=3bc0e959-3b4e-440d-9b99-69078429b82cAlan WolfeWed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-09:story.html?id=3bc0e959-3b4e-440d-9b99-69078429b82c&k=57450http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7e495b9e-2237-4afe-b7c4-c5e5b09903c2Marc WeingartenTue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-08:story.html?id=7e495b9e-2237-4afe-b7c4-c5e5b09903c2&k=61610http://magazines.enews.com/booksarts/story.html?id=80258530-0b95-454b-bd36-75c54ea0a7f1Jed PerlTue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTtag:canada.com,2008-07-08:story.html?id=80258530-0b95-454b-bd36-75c54ea0a7f1&k=78204