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Book Review: Living Blue in the Red States edited by David Starkey
A collection of 21 works of "creative nonfiction" explores what it's like to be blue in a red state and whether those colors even matter.
Read More »Book Review: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
This is a book about "economics, stupid," and not about whether you are on the left or the right.
Read More »Interview With Lloyd Dangle, Author of Troubletown
"With the worst president in history and our liberties and values under threat, I can hardly imagine writing cartoons about other things right now."
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: Macedonia by Harvey Pekar and Heather Robertson, Illustrated by Ed Piskor
Pekar’s new graphic novel informs and even inspires but ultimately wanders too far afield from the author’s strengths and ends up a noble failure.
Read More »Book Review: The Trap – Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America by Daniel Brook
Journalist Daniel Brook argues that government policy has driven college graduates from public service work to corporate America to survive. economically.
Read More »Interview With John Burnett, Author of Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent – Part 2
"And yes, this was a tough story, but I wouldn't trade the Katrina experience for anything in my career." - John Burnett
Read More »Interview With John Burnett, Author of Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent – Part 1
"The Pentagon implicitly understood what happens when journalists are inserted into war-fighting units. People who share adversity grow closer."
Read More »Book Review: Cake Or Death – The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life by Heather Mallick
Heather Mallick is honest in a world where that means something and she speaks from the heart.
Read More »Book Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
When so many voices are saying the same basic message over and over again, shouldn't we be paying attention?
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