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Rachel Balik

Rachel is a full-time staff writer at findingDulcinea.com where she covers arts and culture, as well as GLBT rights, women’s health and the dying newspaper industry. She has studied English, Philosophy and Theater, worked in all three fields, and has a illicit love for biographies of scientists.


Reviews

Tuesday, December 13 2011

A Roadmap to Impactful Protest: 'Ten Years That Shook the City'

Long before San Francisco was the liberal capital of American, individuals incited a powerful movement to make activism a necessity rather than a choice.


Monday, November 14 2011

On Love, Loss and an Unexpected Life: 'Everything Beautiful Began After'

Simon Van Booy's Everything Beautiful Began After is an Unbearable Lightness of Being for our generation, albeit with a softer, wiser and not so existentialist approach.


Tuesday, July 19 2011

The Unfathomable Complexities of Our Most Basic Instinct: 'Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue'

In Loyalty: The Vexing Virture, Eric Felten suggests that loyalty isn't a thing of the past; rather it's an amorphous creature in constant motion.


Tuesday, June 21 2011

How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going? Your iPhone Knows the Answer Because It's 'Always On'

Always On spans decades, countries, and companies to define the now indestructible relationship between humanity and technology.


Monday, May 9 2011

A Spoonful of Humor Makes the Feminism Go Down in Tina Fey's 'Bossypants'

Captivating while innocently disorganized, Bossypants makes the most palatable (and hilarious) argument in history that the glass ceiling is starting to crack.


Blogs

Thursday, September 16 2010

Seasoned Playwright Brooke Berman Finds Home in a New Genre

Playwright Brooke Berman talks to PopMatters about the experience of writing and publishing her first prose work, No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments.


Friday, August 6 2010

Questioning Values, With a Twist

Author Martha McPhee was brave enough to admit just how grueling life as a "successful" writer is -- what unfolds is a guide for self-reckoning.


Tuesday, March 16 2010

Bipolar Explorer: 2.Mar.10 - New York

Lauching the Annie O. Concert Series, Bipolar Explorer played a rooftop set at New York's Cooper Square Hotel.


Wednesday, February 3 2010

Pop. 1280: 23.Jan.2010 - NYC

Words and Pictures by Rachel Balik


Tuesday, December 1 2009

44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World

44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World – ed. Robert Pledge and Jacques Menasche – National Geographic [$50]


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