Recent Books Features

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Monday, April 13 2009

India Shining?: America’s Indian Moment

By Derik Smith

Perhaps Slumdog Millionaire is an elaborate, cinematic version of Bobby Jindal. Perhaps Western audiences have so deeply appreciated Boyle's film because it subtly reiterates a symbolic order that is as familiar as colonial conquest.

Friday, April 10 2009

Apocalypse Jukebox: Apocalypse in the 7-Eleven Parking Lot

By David Janssen & Edward Whitelock

In this excerpt from PopMatters' new book Apocalypse Jukebox, Janssen and Whitelock warn that no period of the human life cycle is as fraught with apocalyptic anxiety as adolescence.

Tuesday, April 7 2009

What We Write About When We Write About Art

By Marijeta Bozovic

On Edge exhibits a composite image of a younger, rougher New York: we know it existed, but it still has the power to shock and charm, like a photo of a beloved aunt as a teenager with cropped and blue hair.

China Underground: The Black Society

By Zachary Mexico

In this excerpt from PopMatters' new book China Underground, Mexico tells us about Dalong the good-looking gangster, and his ‘little brother’ who, while high on ketamine, shot his friend.

Sunday, April 5 2009

Lynn Freed

By PopMatters Staff

Award-winner writer Lynn Freed's delicious replies to PopMatters 20 Questions may have you wishing, like us, that she could be your dinner guest. Her new novel, The Servants' Quarters, publishes this month.

Thursday, April 2 2009

Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Identity

By Shyam K. Sriram

As the Middle Eastern American community has been perceived to be less Christian and more Muslim since 9/11, so too is the assumption that they are unable to assimilate because of religious differences.

Thursday, March 26 2009

Confess, Fletch

By Peter Swanson

The Chevy Chase films shouldn't deter you from reading Gregory McDonald's masterful and often hilarious Fletch mysteries

Monday, March 23 2009

John Wesley Harding

By PopMatters Staff

The talented songwriter, singer and internationally best-selling novelist from East Sussex, John Wesley Harding, talks with PopMatters 20 Questions

Thursday, March 19 2009

The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future

By Derek Beres

If men were a product, the marketplace is saying it’s outlived its shelf life. Author Guy Garcia considers how to reshape men to fit the modern world in The Decline of Men.

Wednesday, March 18 2009

Does Video Game Criticism Need a Pauline Kael?

By L.B. Jeffries

Kael, much like video game critics today, was faced with a massive philosophical shift in her chosen artistic medium that large quantities of critics were against.

Friday, March 13 2009

The Joy of Sex: An Endless Smorgasbord

By Patrick Schabe

‘Ingredients’, ‘Appetizers’, ‘Main Courses’, ‘Sauces and Pickles’ and yet more modernized recipes. Yes, there is another brand new edition of that 1970s classic, The Joy of Sex.

Monday, March 9 2009

Apocalypse Jukebox: It’s Got a Beat and You Can Die to It

By David Janssen & Edward Whitelock

In this excerpt from PopMatters' new book Apocalypse Jukebox, Janssen and Whitelock remind us that underneath Devo’s flowerpot kitsch and low comic value lies a high-minded, sharply satiric argument that centers upon the principle of postapocalypse.

Thursday, March 5 2009

Nam Le: To Write or Not to Write an Ethnic Story

By Michael Caylo-Baradi

The stories are not about arrivals per se, but rather about approximate ideas of authorial arrival, about notions that an imagination, an author from a specific cultural background has arrived in the imagination of its diverse other(s).

Monday, March 2 2009

Apocalypse Jukebox: Disaster, Revelation and Impossible Salvation

By David Janssen & Edward Whitelock

In this excerpt from PopMatters' new book Apocalypse Jukebox, Janssen and Whitelock inform us, “In no small way, rock ‘n’ roll’s early development took place in the shadow of a mushroom cloud.”

Tuesday, February 24 2009

Apocalypse Jukebox: The End is Near, There and Everywhere

By David Janssen & Edward Whitelock

In this excerpt from PopMatters' new book Apocalypse Jukebox, Janssen and Whitelock talk about “the devil’s masterpiece for trapping teenagers, making them his slaves, and causing them to be the enemies of God.”

Thursday, February 5 2009

Marty Beckerman and America’s Dumbocracy

By Chris Catania

“When you say more rash and outlandish things you get heard and when you say more nuanced things your voice gets drowned out.”

Stuff White People Like: A Theory of the Liberal Leisure Class

By Kelly Roberts

"Look at our generation … Stuff is all we have … It's not a display of wealth. It's about a display of authenticity and taste."

Friday, January 30 2009

Killing for Coal: An Interview with Thomas G. Andrews

By Emily F. Popek

Andrews' book distinguishes itself from conventional labor histories by going beyond sociological factors to look at the total physical environment and the role it played in the lives of both labor and management, and how it would lead to the Ludlow Massacre of 1914.

Wednesday, January 28 2009

‘Art’: A Diminished Magnificence

By Michael Antman

Has any other art, even literature or music, ever exceeded the visual arts in its ambition, its richness, and its sheer beauty?

Sunday, January 11 2009

Rebels Wit Attitude: Nirvana

By Iain Ellis

In this excerpt from PopMatters' new book Rebels Wit Attitude, Iain Ellis discusses how Nirvana were a rocking perfect storm of punk’s attitude, metal’s riffs, and pop hooks.

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