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Book Review: The Mask of Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
The Mask of Fu Manchu is perhaps not the best introduction to Sax Rohmer's 100 year old character.
Read More »Book Review: Brad Pitt’s Dog: Essays on Fame/Death/Punk by Johan Kugelberg
Pop culture for the from a punk point of view, told with flights of rhetorical flash.
Read More »Book Review: Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America’s Favorite Desperate Housewives, Edited by Leah Wilson
Think Desperate Housewives is a superficial show? Think again.
Read More »Book Review: What Is Film Noir? by William Park
"As I drove off, it was still raining and the drops streaked down the windshield like tears" -Detour
Read More »An Interview with Eric Burns, Author of Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television’s Conquest of America in the Fifties
"We were captivated, mesmerized, hypnotized. Thus, Eve Arden, who played a school teacher, received offers to be a school teacher in real life."
Read More »ObamaRama, The Final Chapter
We wrap the ObamaRama series with a detailed look at a leftward shift in popular culture, and a look at Obama as everyman.
Read More »ObamaRama, The Sequel
We continue our pursuit of the enigmatic but ubiquitous Barack Obama in popular culture with stops in sports, music, books, and the comments section of Blogcritics!
Read More »ObamaRama, The Beginning
A scintillating selection of Blogcritics writers unwind the complex thread that Barack Hussein Obama has already woven into our national cultural fabric.
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