Photo from W2C.net

Read Rage

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business -- and Bad Medicine

by Donald L. Barlett / James B. Steele

DoubleDay

5 October 2004, 288 pages, $25.00

[17 April 2007]

by Savannah Schroll Guz

Moving others to constructive action, whether by persuasive or expository means, as Gutkind has done with Rage and Reconciliation, is the hallmark of socially-engaged literature.
Add a comment

Please enter your name and a valid email address. Your email address will not be displayed. It is required only to prevent comment spam.

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?

Please enter the sequence of letters and numbers you see in the image above. Do not include any spaces.

Page Turner
Digesting The Raw Shark Texts

Digesting The Raw Shark Texts

Savannah Schroll Guz

24.Jul.07

Words, these fundaments of culture and personal expression, these phonic constructions, which are so closely linked to human emotion and identity, have a profound destructive capacity.

Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

Savannah Schroll Guz

26.Jun.07

Brad Listi's new novel realistically shows how Gen Xers perceive the world: it's full of random information that doesn't add up to an understanding of what life is all about.

A Moral Pornographer?

A Moral Pornographer?

Savannah Schroll Guz

15.May.07

Can pornographic literature impart a lesson in morality? Author Tamara Faith Berger believes it can.

 
 

RECENT COLUMNS
MORE COLUMNS
:. recent columns :. full archive
: The Secret Life of Bees
By Matt Mazur
[13.Oct.08]
The Screener: Irrational Exuberance
By Chris Barsanti
[10.Oct.08]
Jazz Today: Selling the Melody
By Will Layman
[9.Oct.08]
Canon Fodder: DIY: Takahiko Iimura
By Michael Barrett
[8.Oct.08]
The Screener: In the Land of the Blind
By Chris Barsanti
[3.Oct.08]
Marginal Utility: The Database of Self
By Rob Horning
[2.Oct.08]
The Screener: Pretty Vacant
By Chris Barsanti
[26.Sep.08]
The Screener: The Cold Season
By Chris Barsanti
[19.Sep.08]