Tag Archives: Nonfiction

This little book cleverly satirizes America's obsessions with sex, health and various vices. Filled with bizarro-world table turning, plain absurdity, and acute observations of familiar social phenomena that no one likes to talk about, it would make a great gift for anyone who can take a joke.

Lawrence Lessig’s new book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is getting quite a bit of attention. We discussed it here yesterday, where you can also hear the entire book for free. Salon’s Farhad Manjoo takes a long look …

Lawrence Lessig’s new book is out, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The site for the book describes it thusly: Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus …

Politics play a critical role in how medical patients are treated. Cultural norms and the politics that implement those norms determine even what is considered a treatable medical condition in the first place. Nowhere has the politics of medicine been more evident over the last century than in the treatment …

The focus of the most recent trade collection of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor series, Unsung Hero (Dark Horse), may initially throw readers coming to Pekar’s comics from the currently released American Splendor flick. Instead of the autobiographical thoughts and travails of Cleveland’s most famous file clerk, Hero recounts the Vietnam …

Another historian comprehends the danger of fanatical Islamoterrorism: Walter Laqueur – a deeply learned polyglot historian, whose expertise ranges from 19th-century Germany to 20th-century Egypt – has for decades stood out as one of the very few sober and intelligent voices in this undistinguished crowd. His latest book, “No End …

An autopsy of a badly broken social system by a forensic psychologist, the creator of the documentary Six.

Some women derive the most perverse pleasure watching their object of ridicule squirm, cry and otherwise become unhinged.

The truth be known I am emotional and pretty damned squeamish, so when it comes to aspects of life that touch heavily on both – like war – I try pretty hard to concentrate on the macro view and not get too caught up in the micro, where it ALL …

Going on right now, and tomorrow at 6:30AM, and Sunday night-Monday morning at 12:30 AM on Book TV: 2003 Virginia Festival of the Book – Dreams of War Panel Description: From the Virginia Festival of the Book, in Charlottesville, a panel discussion on the nature of war featuring discussants Chris …