Micah Mattix

The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia By Roger Kimball (St. Augustine’s Press, 347 pages,…

There is a difference between propaganda and political art. Both attempt to influence viewers or readers to take some sort…

Is art better than gold? Or is it fool’s gold?   We’re all lying Cretans. Robert Hughes, on the other hand,…

Following his defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy in May, President-Elect of France, François Hollande, reiterated his promise to raise the marginal…

Dana Gioia’s fourth book of poems is out–his first in eleven years. Gioia was head of the National Endowment of…

Last week, the word in the art and literary world was transgression. This week, it’s technology. Following the success of…

Art is transgressive, we’re told, but not all transgressions are equal. For example, write a book of poems called Babyf—er,…

What is it with poets and capitalism? The two, it seems, are like oil and water. At the end of…