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Friday, September 5 2008

The Court and the Cross by Frederick S. Lane

That evangelical Christian leader Rick Warren recently interviewed the US presidential candidates on national television is proof enough of Lane's chilling thesis.

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux

The ghost that haunts this trip is Theroux's younger self, whom he addresses from time to time.

Thursday, September 4 2008

Queen of the Oil Club, by Anna Rubino

Jablonski's career was remarkable, and not simply because of its reporting and publishing brilliance.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

A tightly focused window into a defining avocation of one of the world's great novelists.

Wednesday, September 3 2008

Networking Futures by Jeffrey S. Juris

This stands as a pioneering document of what may yet prove to be a new new world order.

Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang

Keys to Lang Lang: The pianist tells his harrowing pre-fame story.

Tuesday, September 2 2008

The Magnificent Monarch by Anna Keay

An examination of this type makes one wonder how much of Charles' time was actually spent governing, since he seemed to spend so much time eating alone, washing feet, and going to chapel.

Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche

Fritzsche shows the systematic breakdown and reshaping of a society, which in part paved the way for the Holocaust.

Friday, August 29 2008

Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

There are few ways for many in the first world to become acquainted with how people live in Africa. For a window of understanding, read this book.

Bit of a Blur by Alex James

Blur was one of the biggest bands of the 1990s, a fact that everyone in the world was keenly aware of unless you lived in the United States.

Thursday, August 28 2008

The Cambridge Curry Club by Saumya Balsari

Balsari's debut novel is gratefully returned to print, allowing its diaspora tale of intertwined lives to spread out around the world.

Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels, by Kristine M. McCusker

Barn dance radio was its own construct, even if, upon superficial re-inspection, it appears to represent a bygone era of non-cynical musical appreciation.

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Tuesday, September 2 2008

Handsome Dick Manitoba

Punk rock godfather and legend Handsome Dick Manitoba likes to kick back in the ol' Barcalounger and enjoy the comforts of home, as he reveals to PopMatters 20 Questions.

Wednesday, August 27 2008

Who Can Save Us Now?

Sherlock Holmes, pudgy heroes, and Superman’s sexual prowess: an interview with Owen King.

Friday, August 22 2008

Yukio Mishima, of Love and Death

Death and sex were verboten, and Mishima took it upon himself to be a virtuosic provocateur; part passionate expressive modernist, part fervent traditionalist.

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Monday, August 25 2008

He’s Lost Control

The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.

Tuesday, July 29 2008

Rebel Rebel

The time is ripe for revisiting One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as we're all aware that individual freedoms are still being suppressed by governments around the world.

Monday, July 21 2008

Samuel Fuller, “The Poet of Potboilers”

Fuller was a playful but hard-bitten cynic who imposed his sometimes weary, whistling-past-the-graveyard worldview on all those people sitting in the dark.

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Re:Print: Dawn has Broken

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