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Monday, October 6 2008
By Lara Killian
International relations get another moment in the spotlight when Barry mentions that in December 2006 the five permanent members of the UN Security Council include the US, the UK, Russia, China, and Google.
Friday, October 3 2008
By Patrick Schabe
There's something particularly pathetic about a desperate man in the throes of an existential mid-life crisis.
Thursday, October 2 2008
By Kim Simpson
This collection of essays makes as much of an effort to raise questions about the National Barn Dance's disappearance from public memory as it does to rectify the problem.
Wednesday, October 1 2008
By Chris Barsanti
An important and dutiful volume that catches readers up on just about everything Disch was doing, at least in science fiction, over the past few years.
Tuesday, September 30 2008
By Ryan Michael Williams
A strange hybrid of cultural parody and psychological realism, in which Oates’s broadly drawn characters gradually take on realistic emotional complexity.
Monday, September 29 2008
By Chris Barsanti
The difference between us and Friedman is that he tends to actually be in a position to talk to people whose opinions on the subjects of energy and growth really matter.
By Rachel Balik
In addition to a reasonably strict adherence to the analytic restrictions of philosophical inquiry, the speakers in this book seem to be on a subtextual quest to save art.
Friday, September 26 2008
By Ryan Michael Williams
The greatest strength of this book comes in Griffin and Washington's perceptive analysis of the cultural meanings of the public images projected by both musicians.
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Wednesday, October 1 2008
By Nikki Tranter
The question at the heart of Camilla Noli's debut novel, Still Waters, is this: Is every woman suited to motherhood? The book is a sharp, distressing look at the answer. PopMatters spoke to Noli about the book, the controversy, motherhood, and the writer's dream realized.
Monday, September 22 2008
By Evan Sawdey
Cultural critic Chuck Klosterman talks with PopMatters about his new book, Downtown Owl, his regrets about an old one, and that he might next get into making documentary films.
By PopMatters Staff
"It's A Wonderful Life", aint' it? Author and musician Laurie Lindeen (Zuzu's Petals), like George Bailey, would know, as she shares some insights with PopMatters 20 Questions.
Thursday, September 25 2008
By Mark Reynolds
Bert Williams in blackface started a conversation about representing blackness within a mainstream context that has continued through virtually every crossover moment in black American life.
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Monday, August 25 2008
By Jennifer Makowsky
The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.
(more The Box Office Belletrist)
Tuesday, July 29 2008
By Jennifer Makowsky
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.
(more The Box Office Belletrist)
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