A Troubled Sound Rings on in Danny Goldberg's 'In Search of the Lost Chord'
Danny Goldberg's In Search of The Lost Chord: 1967 and The Hippie Idea resonates with today's activist readers.
01 Feb 2019
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Sight and Sound and Fury: Paul Fonoroff's Powerful 'Chinese Movie Magazines'
In Chinese Movie Magazines, Paul Fonoroff highlights the capacity for humans to embed their desires and history in the most innocuous-seeming of creative efforts.
30 Jan 2019
'Iconic Magazine Covers' Positions Magazine Covers As Cultural Artifacts and Historical Touchstones
Ian Birch's engaging Iconic Magazine Covers shows how magazines and their covers not only reflect social change -- they can also help bring about social change.
28 Jan 2019
'Confidential Confidential' Analyzes Scandal, Libel, and '50s-era Celebrity Culture
Samantha Barbas' Confidential Confidential brings to mind Fox News, Donald Trump, and the current American cultural-political climate of lies and hysteria.
07 Nov 2018
'Trump and the Media': Work-in-Progress Dispatches from a Sinking Ship
The warning signs of a failing media system have always been there. This MIT Press collection of media scholars and activists casts light on recent media history and where it's taking us.
29 Oct 2018
Why Does Anyone Turn to a Michael Moore Film?
From Bowling for Columbine to the recent Fahrenheit 11/9, one wonders, what is being validated in Michael Moore films?
27 Sep 2018
Video-idiocy? No, 'Videocracy' Celebrates the Bright Side of YouTube Indulgence
Against the constant distaste for and dismay about social media, Videocracy gives readers a series of anecdotes that connect YouTube to the goodness of being human.
17 Jul 2018
Here to Stay? The Neil Young Archives
Combining his punk ethos and tech savvy in this new online archive, Neil Young has to choose what archival releases add new understanding, new angles on the story, new points of emphasis in his own history -- and which do not.
02 Jul 2018
Informed or Inflamed? Author Steve Almond Talks About How We Consume Trump
With the recent release of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Steve Almond talks in-depth about the US president whom most parents wouldn't even let on the playground -- and about his beef with the American left.
06 Apr 2018
How Has Taking Offense Become a Political Tool?
Hate Spin examines how politicians use the fundamentals of democracy to spread hate for personal gain.
19 Mar 2018
It Only Looks Like Truth If You Believe It 'Control Room' Reminds Us
As we encounter so many broken promises, dangerous corruptions, and increasing assaults on journalism, Control Room's arguments about and insights into war and media only seem more acute, and tragically, lasting.
13 Feb 2018
Is Journalism's Fear of Bias Worse Than Bias Itself?
Linda Greenhouse, one of America's top journalists takes aim at some of the field's worst and most outdated habits in Just a Journalist.
09 Jan 2018
It's All True!: Weston Magazines and Wrestling's "Creative Journalism"
Stanley Weston's small pre-WWF line of wrestling magazines featured writing staffs that made up pull-quotes and headlines on the spot. Just what fans were clamoring for.
08 Jun 2017
When Kendrick Lamar Hits NPR, We All Win
When everyone feels they can be an expert, how do you reassert your ownership over a topic? By waiting for its crossover moment.
16 Dec 2014
The Essays in 'Sex Scene' Are as Vivid and Provocative as One Would Hope
Sex Scene offers a new angle for examining the "longest revolution", and demonstrates the profound ability of the media to influence how we think, and what we think about.
26 Mar 2014
First They Came for the Books and I Did Not Speak Out
American journalist Max Lerner claimed "to reject the word is to reject the human search." Under the Third Reich, the book industry faced its own destruction, leaving the people with empty words bursting with Nazi propaganda.
04 Dec 2013
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