Tag Archives: books

Moon & Ba's ultra-romantic grapic novel. . .

(In which our intrepid manga explorer is driven into momentarily reminiscing about Julie Newmar.)

Filming is already underway on the fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Ralph Fiennes has been cast as the dreaded Lord Voldemort, Potter’s lethal nemesis: In the first three films, only Voldemort’s spirit has been visible, but he returns in the flesh for the …

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.

JK Galbraith is exceptionally unwise for a brilliant old man, as demonstrated in this excerpt from his latest book, The Economics of Innocent Fraud : Truth For Our Time: We cherish the progress in civilisation since biblical times and long before. But there is a needed and, indeed, accepted qualification. …

Kit Reed's sardonic s-f satire on American diet culture. . .

Former president Bill Clinton (maybe someone was unaware that Clinton is a former president, so I put that in just in case) is live with NPR’s Diane Rehm – she of the spasmodic dysphonia – right now. Clinton is most effective in an intimate setting and Rehm is a very …

Bill Clinton’s My Life is number 1 on Amazon right now and doing just fine. The Wharton School looks at the marketing plan behind it, getting all racy calling Clinton the “Laydown King” in its intro: Laydown denotes nothing salacious. In the world of publishing, the laydown date is a …

In which our Blogcritic confronts his Fear of Charm. . .

One of the odd but endearing things about American politics are those tableaus where the combatants periodically step out of the ring and acknowldge that it’s at least partially a big, fat show. Can you picture Hamid Karzai unveiling a portrait of Mullah Omar? Bush and Clinton get all squishy: …