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Recent Books FeaturesFriday, November 30 2007
E.L. Doctorow Has His Splendid Crow’s-NestWhen it comes to beholding America, E.L. Doctorow always wants the masthead seat. And makes the most of it. Wednesday, November 28 2007
Brave New WorldNaomi Klein convincingly argues in her crushingly pessimistic but magisterial work The Shock Doctrine that the future could well be a "cruel and ruthlessly divided" place where "money and race buy survival". Friday, November 16 2007
Olaf Stapledon: Of His Time, and OthersTo sit and complain about the lack of credit Stapledon receives is to undermine the very principle for which he was writing about: mankind's yearning for community. Tuesday, November 13 2007
After the Silicon RushIn the 20-plus years since cyberpunk threw down a gauntlet to science fiction and stormed the cultural gates, its vision has been praised, criticized, absorbed, and integrated into the mainstream. Does post-cyberpunk have something new to offer? Thursday, November 1 2007
Michel Faber’s Fantasies"My fiction should make the reader want to grab some of these characters and shout, 'No, no, can't you see it's not LIKE that?!'" Wednesday, October 17 2007
Literature is Inside of Life Just Like a Tree is Inside of LifeTao Lin has developed his own unmistakable and unique style by utilizing a contagiously honest way of writing. Marcelo Ballvé discusses Bed and Eeeee eee eeee with the author. Friday, September 28 2007
Allen Ginsberg: The Politics of EcstasyGinsberg had an eye that took in a world full of lovers and low-lifes -- each, for him, was a song waiting to be sung. Tuesday, September 18 2007
Celebrating BogieFilm historian Richard Schickel fails to pay tribute to Bogie in a recent book. PopMatters' John Carvill takes matters into his own hands. Monday, August 27 2007
Wyndham Lewis: The Irascible EnemyWyndham Lewis brought a scintillating intellect to his artistic endeavors. If only we could let him loose on the majority culture of our time. Thursday, August 2 2007
Like a Boyd on a WirePopMatters talks to Joe Boyd, a man at the center of the folk, rock and blues scenes of the 1960s who lived to tell the tale. "The whole notion of folk music and an appreciation of things that are more rural and more traditional and more rustic than our lives are now is the privilege of the middle class." Tuesday, July 31 2007
The Boy Who Lives On: Harry Potter’s Place in Popular CultureHarry Potter flew so high in popular cultural consciousness not by some force of magic, but by the simple, sometimes thrilling machinations of pop culture. Thursday, July 26 2007
A Darwin Descends on Dover ID Trial: Conversation and Criticism with Matthew ChapmanChapman's latest book, 40 Days and 40 Nights succeeds in unearthing optimism in America's roots and finds their original faith: Freedom. Tuesday, July 24 2007
A Lost Cause: Tim Weiner’s History of the C.I.A.Deep down, most of us probably know that the Central Intelligence Agency can't be nearly as cool as our popular media would have us believe. Tuesday, July 17 2007
Work, the SequelMost people don't have the luxury of choosing to bail from a high-paying job to live the stressed-out, pizza-scarfing life of a grad student. Thursday, July 12 2007
Nerdfighter Lit: Interview with John Green"I would also argue, and no one agrees with me on this but I will argue it anyway, that not all "young adult" novels are about teenagers." PopMatters talks to John Green about literature, pop culture, and all those Katherines. Friday, April 6 2007
Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson"My editor said, 'Yeah, it's like Emergence if the slime molds started killing people in chapter four.' And that became my mantra as I was writing it: 'Just think Emergence with killer slime molds and you're golden.'" PopMatters talks to Ghost Map author, Steven Johnson. Thursday, March 29 2007
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual AutobiographyDavid Sterritt looks at Sidney Poitier's fabulous comeback thanks to Oprah's golden touch. Thursday, February 15 2007
Permission to Follow: Interview with Juliet McMainsPopMatters talks to dancer and author Juliet McMains about how the forces driving DanceSport mirror American national identity: desire for both passionate abandon and steadfast rules, obsession with self-improvement and comfortable gender roles, and craving for a little thing called Glamour. Tuesday, January 30 2007
Hardboiled to Hardcore: Interview with Walter Mosley"It's amazing how we strain to maintain our dignity and end up like Colin Powell, the only one who knows what the f**k is going on, but is unable to tell it." PopMatters talks to Walter Mosley. Monday, January 15 2007
Readers’ Delight: 2006 in BooksThis is not your average best-of list. Showing their pop colors, while maintaining (somehow) their indie, undergroup, hipster cred, PopMatters book reviewers select the best books of 2006. |
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