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Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung

by David Pullar

[8.Jul.08] :. Anyone who has been bullied or excluded or felt that their family is weird will identify with many of these stories.

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Rightward Bound by Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer (Editors)

by Christopher Martin

[21.Apr.08] :. Jacobs writes that the [1973-74 energy] crisis ultimately taught “conservative reformers a valuable lesson: fighting liberalism is hard”.

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Living Blue in the Red States by David Starkey

by Andy Fogle

[26.Nov.07] :. The best of these essays acknowledge the false dichotomy of red and blue, confront personal biases, and outline the disillusionment of the left at both the right and itself.

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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James

by Michael Buening

[13.Nov.07] :. At times his assumption of equal intelligence with the reader is flattering and laughable.

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(Not That You Asked) by Steve Almond

by Michael Keefe

[4.Sep.07] :. Steve Almond is a typical American guy (well, perhaps aside from caring about books and the fate of the human race, anyway).

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Confronting the New Conservatism by Michael J. Thompson [Editor]

by Vince Carducci

[13.Aug.07] :. It makes for worthy if sometimes scary reading as the United States slouches toward the 2008 election.

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American Food Writing by Molly ONeill [Editor]

by Erika Nanes

[2.Aug.07] :. Any food lover will tell you that to learn about a culture, one can do no better than to pull up a chair and pick up a fork.

 

The Gangster Film Reader by Alain Silver and James Ursini [Eds]

by David Sterritt

[25.Jul.07] :. In an age when gangsters have given way to gangstas, it's refreshing to find a book that takes the older breed seriously.

 

At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman

by Margaria Fichtner [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[29.Jun.07] :. Fadiman's essays may start out as handshakes, but they quickly distill into murmurs floating across the table during a long afternoon squandered over Earl Grey and blueberry scones.

 

At the Same Time by Susan Sontag

by Marc Andreottola

[6.Jun.07] :. There's an exciting pressure here for artists and writers alike to shake up the status quo, to go under attack.

 
 
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