Monday, January 4 2010
This New Year’s Eve Really Did End with a Bang
Nothing like spending New Year's Eve with couple of white guys pretending to be black guys during a war-time year worthy of blowing its own brains out.
Monday, December 8 2008
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
Erra’s childish recounting of body parts that grow and those that don’t, including a count of her own lost baby teeth, is a rare moment where the narrator truly is only six.
Friday, December 5 2008
House of Saddam
At the start of House of Saddam, the Iraqi leader watches George W. Bush announce the coming war on TV, looking into a reflection of his own end, born of hubris and deception and decades of disloyalties.
Tuesday, March 18 2008
Black 47: Iraq
Bronx-based Celtic punks Black 47 offer a weak, ineffectual Iraq war protest album.
Wednesday, July 18 2007
Nice Bombs (2006)
Though it seems casual, even random, Nice Bombs manages a consistently acute observation of tensions between troops and citizens, expectations and realities.
