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A look at the source for this season's big superhero pic. . .

Today is the day for Poetry Against the War, which grew out of Laura Bush’s misguided cancellation of a White House poetry event that the poets were planning to turn into an anti-war event – better to have let the poets had their say, then refuted them than to give …

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will have a first printing of 6.8 million copies in the US, the largest ever for a general interest hardcover: Rowling’s last installment, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” became the fastest-selling book in history, selling 3 million copies within 48 …

Spain's graphic adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham's dark carny classic.

Randon House decided it was time for a new Godfather novel, so it held a contest. Martha Stewart won – kidding: Mark Winegardner is joining the Corleone family business: He’s been selected to write the next “Godfather” novel. Winegardner, a fiction writer whose previous subjects include baseball, Cleveland and organized …

Hunter S. Thompson has joined the poets in opposing possible war against Iraq. Given his ethos of retribution and reckless love affair with guns, I am surprised by his anti-war stance this time around. I hope it isn’t that his hatred of the Republicans causes him to oppose ANYTHING that …

“Intellectual property law cannot be patched, retrofitted, or expanded to contain digitized expression any more than real estate law might be revised to cover the allocation of broadcasting spectrum…” John Perry Barlow The structure of the recording industry continues to crumble from within: this time we have an essay by …

Several weeks ago, I did a piece for my blog & Blogcritics, discussing some of my favorite ongoing genre comics. I received several responses (not to mention, a nice plug in Journalista!), but the most insistent comments came from a reader who thought I should’ve included Marvel’s The Ultimates in …

Let’s think: what vocation or avocation is most likely to be against war – any war – war as a concept under any circumstances? Machinists? Bloggers? Human rights activists? Veterans? How about poets, whose noble pursuit of the music in language often leads down winding paths of fancy, at the …

Arnold Kling – who by the way, looks exactly like an “Arnold Kling” – says many of us misunderstand the economics of the Internet: all interpersonal transactions can be sorted into four relational models. Communal Sharing Authority Ranking Equality Matching Market Pricing In a Communal Sharing transaction, such as a …