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• Ben Greenman: Johnny Cash’s “American VI: Ain’t No Grave.”

paragraph class="noindent">There are several good things about “American VI: Ain’t No Grave” (American Recordings), the second posthumous release from Johnny Cash and the final page in Rick Rubin’s final-chapter reclamation project. The title song demonstrates admirable defiance in the face of . . ....

• Judith Thurman: Deborah Turbeville’s reluctant fashion photography.

Richard Avedon and Irving Penn both drew a distinction between the pictures they took for fashion magazines and their art photography. Fashion paid the bills, but they rather looked down on it. Deborah Turbeville’s fashion pictures of the past thirty-five years—cryptic hybrids of wit and . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Judith Thurman: Alison Bechdel’s “Are You My Mother?”

Last February, Alison Bechdel was invited to give the annual Paumanok Lecture on American Literature and Culture at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. The series is sponsored by the English department, and previous speakers have included Alfred Kazin, Elizabeth Hardwick, Irving Howe, and Edward Said. Bechdel was introduced . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Goings on About Town: Dance

goatTitle-->AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE As a consolation for the absence of “Romeo and Juliet” from the season’s lineup, fans of Prokofiev will get his syncopated, more jagged “Cinderella.” James Kudelka’s production, first performed by American Ballet Theatre in 2006, has less . . ....

• Books: “American Egyptologist” by Jeffrey Abt, review.

Born in Illinois in 1865, James Henry Breasted turned an early interest in the ministry and a talent for languages into a remarkable career as America’s first formally trained Egyptologist. He specialized in the recording of inscriptions and wanted nothing less than “the recopying and republication of . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Judith Thurman: Fear Factor.

Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramović....

• Jill Lepore: The fight between Henry Luce and Harold Ross.

Henry Luce, who was born in Tengchow, China, used to say he wished he’d been born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. “An American can always explain himself satisfactorily by citing where he comes from,” Luce said. He’d have given anything for a home town in the . . ....

• James Surowiecki: Obama, jobs, and the G.O.P.

There is no truer truism in American politics than James Carville’s catchphrase from the 1992 election “It’s the economy, stupid.” When people discuss Barack Obama’s current approval rating, which is at its lowest level ever, they may invoke his supposed lack of . . ....

• James Surowiecki: High finance on the big screen.

When Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” came out, in 1987, the movie’s portrait of American finance as an exhilaratingly cutthroat world ruled by corrupt traders and amoral money managers left an instant and indelible impression. But when Stone’s follow-up, “Wall Street . . ....

• James Wood: Denis Johnson’s “Train Dreams.”

8220;How much land does a man need?” Tolstoy asked, in his well-known fable of that name. His answer: Just enough to be buried in. The protagonist of Denis Johnson’s novella “Train Dreams” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18) needs just enough to be . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Race @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Ruthlessness of a rhetorical kind is part of the fun of David Mamet’s new play (directed by the author), his latest exercise in contrarian provocation. “Do you know what you can say? To a black man. On the subject of race?” Henry Brown (David Alan Grier), a black lawyer, says to Charles Strickland (Richard Thomas), a rich, white potential client who is accused of raping...

• Books: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s “Life Upon These Shores,” review.

Beginning with the twenty or so Angolan slaves brought to Jamestown in 1619 and ending with the election of Barack Obama, this copiously illustrated history sets out, as Gates puts it, “to find a new way of looking” at the “full sweep” of African-American history . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Judith Thurman: McQueen: Marvellous and Macabre

Judith Thurman on Alexander McQueen....

• James Surowiecki: Christmas shopping, credit cards, and layaway.

8220;Buy now, pay later” has long been the unofficial mantra of American retailing. But this holiday season plenty of American shoppers have gone the other way—paying first and buying later. ’Tis the season of layaway. Not long ago, layaway looked like a relic, thanks to . . ....

• Hilton Als:  David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish” review.

First-generation American writers often have two stories to tell. There’s the story of their inspiration and the quest for a discipline to give form to their imaginings. Then there’s a more constricted tale: the arrival myth. How did my parents get here from Hungary or . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Sam Tanenhaus: Populism, politics, and the power of Sarah Palin.

The last time the publication of a political memoir aroused as much interest as Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue: An American Life” (Harper; $28.99) was probably in 1995, when Colin Powell’s autobiography, “My American Journey,” came out. Like Palin’s bus . . ....

• Joan Acocella: Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels?

Having got American readers to buy more than fourteen million copies, collectively, of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy books—“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2008, American edition), “The Girl Who Played with Fire” (2009), and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#8217 . . ....

• James Surowiecki: The crisis in customer service.

American workers are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. That’s the clear message of flight attendant Steven Slater’s emergence as a “working-class hero,” after he threw his job away with a tirade against passengers and a . . ....

• Hilton Als: Toni Morrison’s “Desdemona,” at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival.

Historically speaking, the stage is a notoriously difficult space for novelists to fill. Henry James is a famous example of a brilliant writer whose dreams of footlight glory were not meant to be. And while Saul Bellow’s “The Last Analysis” is a lovely play, it&#8217 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: Natalie Dykstra’s “Clover Adams” review.

Born in 1843 to a wealthy, intellectual Boston family, Marian (Clover) Hooper moved in the most illustrious circles of nineteenth-century America. Henry James called her “a perfect Voltaire in petticoats”; Henry Adams married her. In Washington, she became a celebrated hostess, rode horses, and, at the age . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Hilton Als: “Porgy and Bess,” reimagined by Diane Paulus.

As audience members took their seats before a recent performance of the director Diane Paulus’s politically radical and dramaturgically original musical adaptation of DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and George and Ira Gershwin’s “American folk opera” “Porgy and Bess” (at the American Repertory . . ....

• Books: “To Be Sung Underwater.”

Judith Whitman (née Toomey), the heroine of McNeal’s second novel, is a child of divorce, who learned early that “all marriages come with a pinhole leak.” Uneasy in her role as wife and mother, Judith grows nostalgic for the romance of her teen-age . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Great Oom.”

The health guru Pierre Bernard popularized yoga in the United States, and became one of the Jazz Age’s sensational impresarios. Dubbed “the Omnipotent Oom” by the tabloids, he legitimately mastered Hatha Yoga and Vedic texts and then promoted his pedagogy in classic American fashion: publicly demonstrating . . ....

• Books: “The Dead Republic.”

Doyle’s ninth novel, the concluding volume of a trilogy that began with “A Star Called Henry,” chronicles the return to Ireland, after almost thirty years of exile in America, of Henry Smart, a former I.R.A. assassin. The first section, in which Henry works with John Ford . . ....

• David Denby: “The American,” “Heartbreaker,” and “Hideaway.”

In “The American,” a professional assassin (George Clooney) known as Jack, and sometimes as Edward, and sometimes not as anyone, enters a medieval hilltop town in the Abruzzo region of Italy and tries to lie low. In his wariness and his silence, Jack resembles those mysterious gunmen who . . ....

• Judith Thurman: Schiaparelli and Prada, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Last June, Men’s Fashion Week in Milan took place a few days after Miuccia Prada and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, who runs the business end of their empire, had raised $2.1 billion with a long-delayed, much ballyhooed initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange . . ....

• Peter Schjeldahl: “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915” at the Met.

If the title of the Met’s “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915” suggests a unit in social studies, that’s apt. The survey of more than a hundred pictures flogs themes of national history and, well, “character.” Pedagogical wall texts loom. But . . ....

• James Surowiecki: American Airlines, bankruptcy, and the housing bubble.

We normally say that a company “went bankrupt,” implying that it had no choice. But when, recently, American Airlines filed for bankruptcy, it did so deliberately. The airline had four billion dollars in the bank and could have kept paying its bills. But it has been losing money . . ....