New Partisanhttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/A Journal of Politics, Culture and the Artsen-US2009-07-04T07:42:28ZSquarespace Site Server v5.5.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Motel Art Improvement Service-A Serial Graphic Novelhttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/motel-art-improvement-service-a-serial-graphic-novel.htmlJason Little2008-12-10T15:34:26ZNP Partisan Art Sequential Art

New Partisan is proud to serialize Jason Little’s graphic novel in progress, Motel Art Improvement Service, a crackling good story that’s somewhere about the border of Hergé and Clowes.

Click the picture to read from the start, or here for the latest installment.

Warning: Not necessarily work safe.

]]>Death in Jersey—The State Against Modern Medicinehttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/death-in-jerseythe-state-against-modern-medicine.htmlJonathan Leaf2008-12-07T19:33:34ZNP SciencePartisan Video—Jameshttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/partisan-videojames.htmlA.R. Brook Lynn2008-12-06T19:43:57ZNP Partisan Art Video

This week’s video feature, by New Partisan regular A.R. Brook Lynn, is a short film about a cash-strapped Greenwich Village mother, Becky (NP contributor Hala Lettieri), and her six-and-a-half-year old daughter, Charlotte (Samantha Becker), on a trip to see her estranged husband, James (Salvatore Interlandi, writer and director of the widely acclaimed Charlie), and try to collect child support. James also features Angela Pietropinto (Welcome to the Dollhouse), and a cameo by New Partisan editor-in-chief Harry Siegel as the mental patient some say he was born to play.

]]>Old Moneyhttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/old-money.htmlLincoln MacVeagh2008-10-25T03:01:14ZFiction & Fables NP New Partisan is proud to present Lincoln MacVeagh’s now complete serial novel, Old Money, a dark satire in the manner of Evelyn Waugh and Dawn Powell:

“Look Dante, the question I’m getting at is this: Do you love commercial real estate? I don’t think you do.”

“Does anyone love commercial real estate?” asked Dante.

“I should hope so.”

“Do you love it?”

Mr. Bullard answered carefully. “I like it a lot.”

“Then you don’t love it?”

“No, but I care about it. I care deeply about it.”

Mr. Bullard folded his arms across his chest as if daring Dante to disbelieve him. Dante was genuinely puzzled. He hadn’t anticipated this discussion and he stared at Mr. Bullard trying to imagine what it meant to care deeply about commercial real estate.

There was an embarrassing silence before Dante realized where the conversation was headed:

“I’m being stupid, aren’t I?”

]]>Happily Never After, or, The Rubbish Towerhttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/happily-never-after-or-the-rubbish-tower.htmlRobert Latona2008-08-09T13:15:02ZLiterature Unfairly ForgottenDante Called You Beatrice. ]]>A Play at Contritionhttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/a-play-at-contrition.htmlAdam Chimera2007-12-03T02:45:56ZInterviews & First Person NP

His hands were in the belly pockets of the coat and as he drew close I noticed that he had a lazy eye. I don’t like to categorize people on the basis of their looks, but this man was a perfect rendering of a pulp novel hustler, appearing dangerous not so much for what he could do physically but, rather, morally.

]]>Losing Evangelicalshttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/losing-evangelicals.htmlCaroline Mello2006-11-03T15:35:07ZNational AffairsState-By-State Breakdowns-Governorshipshttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/state-by-state-breakdowns-governorships.htmlBrian Morreale2006-11-03T06:10:00ZNational AffairsState-By-State Breakdowns-The Senatehttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/state-by-state-breakdowns-the-senate.htmlBrian Morreale2006-11-03T05:52:10ZNational AffairsPataki and the Incumbocratshttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/pataki-and-the-incumbocrats.htmlHarry Siegel2006-10-23T14:55:27ZUrban Affairs

Upstate’s declining population of increasingly elderly and poor remaining residents are no longer consistent conservatives. While Pataki, like Cuomo, has overseen this decline, he’s also clinging to the back of the demographic leviathan.

]]>For David Walleyhttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/for-david-walley.htmlJ.E. D'Ulisse2006-09-27T14:50:47ZInterviews & First Person Partisan BriefsBill Travis' New Yorkhttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/bill-travis-new-york.htmlRobert Nowel2006-09-05T17:30:10ZFine Art Partisan Art
Flip through Weegee’s photos to see the city’s violent underbelly, or Berenice Abbott’s for razor-sharp views of the city’s canyons. Look to Michael Wesely for ghostlike, long-term exposures. When I look at Bill Travis’s work, I see something different and the closest parallels I can find are with photographs over a hundred years old. ]]>The Cortelyou Projecthttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/the-cortelyou-project.htmlAmber Scoon2006-06-30T08:15:53ZFine Art Partisan Art

Amber Scoon's Cortelyou Project, a series of paintings of what the 2000 census found to be America's most integrated neighborhod.]]>"Hemingway.... That Shit!" Reconsidering The Sun Also Riseshttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/hemingway-that-shit-reconsidering-the-sun-also-rises.htmlJohn Bruce2006-06-23T21:38:39ZLiterature

I must have studied that novel in at least two classes as an undergraduate. In fact, looking at my beat-up copy from back then, I have a sinking feeling that I even had to teach it one year in freshman comp. That was when I had to go over it carefully enough to explain to students what was good about it, and I always had the nagging suspicion that whatever it was, I’d missed it.

]]>(Not) Dreaming of Tarashttp://www.newpartisan.com/home/not-dreaming-of-taras.htmlYevgeniya Traps2006-06-15T20:25:10ZLiterature

I think of Taras because he loved me when it was easy to love me.

I wore my hair in two braids, a thin whippet of a smiling girl, not unlike a very young Therese: her smooth brow, her lovely cheekbone, her innocent abandon, the pretty white shirt collar, her little ankle socks.

I am no longer that. But what is Taras? I project him on the walls of my memory, a voyeuristic image, a dried rose hung upside down in the attic, stripped of meaning, withered. I do not any longer know what he is or where he is or how he is.

I think of him but I do not dream of him.

But I dream of Kiev. ]]>