Kaitlyn Tiffany Argues for Fandom’s Undeniable Influence on Life Online
Kaitlyn Tiffany’s history of fandom and its influence on life online, Everything I Need I Get From You, is both lighthearted and erudite.
Books
Creedence Clearwater Revival Is the Eye in the Hurricane of John Lingan’s Biography
John Lingan’s expansive view of Creedence Clearwater Revival, A Song for Everyone, puts the band in the eye of the hurricane amid the era’s stormy American culture.
Why Is There Still So Much Nostalgia for Nuclear Apocalypse?
The popularity of nuclear apocalypse is nostalgia for a time when our worries were wrapped in a single nuclear package, and all we needed was a bunker and a dream.
In ‘All Your Children, Scattered’ a Rwandan Family Picks Up the Pieces Post-Genocide
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s All Your Children, Scattered, is a compact, trance-like meditation on the unintended effects of love and survival in the Rwandan diaspora.
‘The Shame Machine’ Illuminates a Key Component of Today’s Incivility
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation offers a means to fight back against shaming but little advice for addressing shameless behavior.
Barney Bubbles’ Labours of Love
The brilliant and troubled Barney Bubbles wanted to inspire and did so through his remarkable litany of album covers. A new retrospective tells his tale.
Why Is Booker Prize Winner Stanley Middleton Forgotten?
Lord Byron, D.H. Lawrence, and Alan Sillitoe loom large over Nottingham’s literary landscape. Why is Book Prize winner Stanley Middleton not among them?
Haddad’s ‘The Book of Queens’ Packs in a Century of Levantine Cataclysms
The ‘queens’ of Joumana Haddad’s The Book of Queens confront the violent vicissitudes of Levantine history.
‘A Brief History of Equality’ Is Also Map Leading Us Out of Our Unequal Era
Part historical text, part optimistic political manifesto, A Brief History of Equality reimagines democratic socialism to suit our global economic crisis.
How Moebius’ Psychedelic Fantasy / Surrealist Art Influenced Video Games
French artist Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, inspired his peers and mass media. In video games especially, his psychedelic fantasy/surrealist art may live on forever.
Broadway Musicals Composer Mary Rodgers’ Memoir ‘Shy’ Is Anything But
If you like brash, outspoken theatre people at your dinner parties, you’ll enjoy the Broadway musicals composer Mary Rodgers’ co-authored memoir, Shy.
Translation As a Tool of Power: An Interview with Novelist R.F. Kuang
Award-winning author, translator, and academic R.F. Kuang’s newest novel, Babel, dives into the depths of deception wrought by colonialism, empire, and language.
