Wednesday, November 12 2003
Using Language Against Itself: An Interview with Robbie Conal, ArtBurn
You’ve seen them. Garish black and white caricatures of Real Important white guys (OK, sometimes a couple black ones) in their suits, smart-ass wordplay posted…
Friday, September 26 2003
Stephen Gould’s Evolution: Iconoclast Popularizer to Pop Icon
The most fascinating issue on which Gould took his colleagues to task was adaptation, and whether evolution is progressive. Does natural selection work to improve living things? The Dawkins gang said yes; Gould said no.
Wednesday, September 3 2003
A Policy Poisoned by Money: An Interview With Greg Palast
One thing investigative journalist Greg Palast is not is some blow-dried cream puff crowing the party line on CNN or Fox News. While America has…
Thursday, July 3 2003
The House of the Scorpion and More: Summer Reading List for Ages 8-15
Now, six years later, things are quite different: George W. is our president, Laura Bush is the First Lady, and the Texas Book Festival has morphed into one of the premier literary events in the country.
Tuesday, June 10 2003
Interview with Mara Leveritt
The True Story of the West Memphis Three, on the details behind the indictment of three Arkansas boys for a group of gruesome 1993 murders.
Thursday, December 26 2002
The 2002 Texas Book Festival
Now, six years later, things are quite different: George W. is our president, Laura Bush is the First Lady, and the Texas Book Festival has morphed into one of the premier literary events in the country.
Tuesday, September 10 2002
A Conversation with Lewis Lapham
At his office in Lower Manhattan, Lewis Lapham, the editor of 'Harper's Magazine', took time this week to discuss the nation's reaction to September 11, his problems with the current caretakers of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and the onslaught of media coverage that threatens to obscure the real truths of 9/11.
Thursday, September 5 2002
Marty Beckerman is Stronger Than You
In the land of milk and honey, Beckerman sets out to sour an oversexed youth contingent.
Wednesday, July 24 2002
The Second Summer Reading List: Books of the Non-Essential Variety
A Brief Summer Reading List, Fiction for Women “Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one’s immediate circle.”— Jean…
Wednesday, June 19 2002
The First Summer Reading List
Vacations, to us of this peculiar breed, are simply an excuse of an extended orgy of unrestrained reading.
Tuesday, September 25 2001
Steal This List
This summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of J.D. Salinger's classic novel of adolescence adrift, 'The Catcher in the Rye'. Rob Maitra, 'PopMatters' critic and high-school teacher, brings us a report from the field that confirms that, even after half a century, Holden Caulfield is still very much alive -- and kicking.
Wednesday, August 22 2001
Reinventing American Adolescence
This summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of J.D. Salinger's classic novel of adolescence adrift, 'The Catcher in the Rye'. Rob Maitra, 'PopMatters' critic and high-school teacher, brings us a report from the field that confirms that, even after half a century, Holden Caulfield is still very much alive -- and kicking.
Tuesday, August 14 2001
50 Ways to Love Your Livres
In the third of our summer reading lists, John G. Nettles suggests that you pick up a few books that carry the highest recommendation of all -- certain people don't want you or your kids to read them.
Wednesday, August 8 2001
Literary Snake Oil
The promise of Internet publishing, that of a level playing field for the scions and the Grandmasters of intellectual property, has yet to consummate the relationship between creative idealism and the community of the modern world.
Ashcroft at the Lion’s Den
Freelance writer Vanessa Leggett, 33, was jailed July 20, 2001 for contempt of court charges, at the Justice Department’s request, by an unnamed judge in…
Thursday, August 2 2001
Eudora Welty—A Life in Words
'My wish, indeed my continuing passion, would be not to point the finger in judgment but to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.'
A king, a queen and two knaves?: An Interview with David Hadju
'Positively 4th Street', New York-based writer David Hajdu's account of the folk era, focuses on two couples whose lives became entangled in the complex history of early 1960s America -- Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Farina. Here he tells 'PopMatters' about its genesis.
Sunday, July 8 2001
Beauty by Brian D’Amato
In the second of our summer reading lists, Mark Dionne recommends three books -- 'One is a postmodern thriller, one is a dystopian science fiction masterpiece and one is the story of a closeted Irish lesbian mourning the death of her partner' -- that he simply cannot believe more people haven't read.
Wednesday, June 13 2001
Southern Exposures
Death to diversion! Rather than push the usual summer herd of 'beach novels,' 'PopMatters'' writers invite you to spend this summer exploring books from their lists of important works. In this first installment of the series, Valerie MacEwan revisits some classics and suggests some Southern writing that goes beyond 'Frankly, my dear...'
