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Features
:. PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2009
:. The Iconographies: The Sociology of Superheroes: Andi Ewington and 45

Columns
Torch & Twang: The Music That Matters: Ralph Rinzler and Bill Monroe, Part Two
Mixtape Confessions: In the J-Zone Zone

Blogs
Channel Surfing: Is ‘Glee’ a Little Bit Racist?
Moving Pixels: Locomotion, Parkour, and the Illusion of Competence in Video Games
Mixed Media: The Best Singles of 2009: Delorean - “Seasun”
Consuming Consumables: Stop Making Sense
Short Ends and Leader: Nine-Sense: 10 Better Possible Movie/Musical Adaptations
Notes from the Road: Elvis Perkins in Dearland: 4.Dec.09 - New York

Music
:. Various Artists: BalkanBeats: A Night in Berlin
:. Glorytellers: Atone
:. Joss Stone: Colour Me Free
:. Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
:. To Kill a Petty Bourgeosie: Marlone
:. Mountains: Etching

Events
:. Our Brother the Native + Zen Zen Egui: 26 October 2009 - London

Film
:. The Last Station

DVDs
:. The Way of the Gun
:. Keeping Up With the Kardashians: The Complete Second Season

Books
:. Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida by Geoffrey B
:. The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

Multimedia
:. Space Invaders Extreme 2

News
:. Wally Lamb walks on the light side
:. Discount retailers and electronic readers worry some in the book world

Reviews

Golem Song by Marc Estrin

By Jason B. Jones

Alan Krieger, self-styled arbiter of Jewish identity, is a charming monster -- omnivorous reader with apparently perfect recall, consumer of White Castle burgers and Reddi-Wip, racist, paranoiac, and, at least in desire, a mass-murderer. [19 November 2006]