From Adel Abidin’s “Three Love Songs” (2010) (via adelabidin.com, GIF Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) Commissioned by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the songs in Adel Abidin’s “Three Love Songs” ...

The end is coming for Saddam. Right now. He knows it, his torturers know it. In the words of a new song—to be released in April—by Iraq’s most famous singer, Kazim Al Sahir (his name has many ...

It’s the dog days of summer and my colleague Scott Horton is all over the Fredo Gonzales story, and I’d prefer not to write much about the sordid bathroom antics of Larry Craig. (For those following ...