Two books about life in the early 20th-century British northern slums are a powerful warning about the need to provide genuine anti-poverty measures today.
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Book Review: The Year Of The Hare by Arto Paasilinna
While we claim to cherish the rights of the individual, our definition of what that constitutes is pretty narrow.
Read More »My Favorite Reads of 2010
The books I enjoyed most in 2010.
Read More »Book Review: Fraterfamilias by Judith Doloughan and Paula R. Stiles
A look into the question of "Do you really want to live forever?"
Read More »Book Review: The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective by Victoria de Grazia and Ellen Furlough (eds)
Consumption patterns and desires are very much historical artefacts, created by the culture and psychology of particular societies.
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: Lenore: Cooties by Roman Dirge
The Little Dead Girl gets her third collection of color comic reprints.
Read More »Book Review: Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails by Otto Messmer, Craig Yoe, Don Oriolo
A wonderful collection of classic comic stories from 1946 to 1954.
Read More »Book Review: Tyger Tyger by Kersten Hamilton
A dark and dangerous place emerges in this fast paced but haunting YA book.
Read More »Book Review: She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
Not championing, unquestioning feminist history, but critical, considered feminist history.
Read More »Book Review: Dead Man’s Chest by Kerry Greenwood
Australia's leading dashing detective swans off to the seaside with her usual panache.
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