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Portrait of the Awkward Artist

If Pablo Helguera's The Boy Inside the Letter (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007) had adopted a subtitle, it would… more

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Youth Gone Wild

Jared Cohen's book Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels among the Youth of the Middle East seeks to understand an area of the world where hatred for his country and religion run rampant

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Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right

Cosby's critics excoriated him for delivering his rant from an elitist ivory tower without offering solutions, arguing that the black poor are the helpless victims of white supremacy and institutional racism

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Prairie Style Romance

Though Nancy Horan takes great liberty in imagining intimate scenes between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney--of which there is no evidence--Loving Frank ultimately rests on historical record

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The New Road to Serfdom

Over the course of 500 pages in The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein documents the moments of chaos and disruption that allow a small coterie of experts to swoop in and administer what's invariably called "bitter medicine," "painful reforms" or "shock therapy"

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Harry Potter and the Muggle Activists

Harry Potter is filled with a childlike magic that plays out in a world whose "dark and difficult times" often mirror those of our society

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Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses

Race does matter in the caustic caldron of the post-Katrina era--the world still perceives us as "refugees"--permanently scarred victims to be forever adrift in tragedy

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The Left’s Identity Crisis

What does it mean to be a progressive in 2007? What do we stand for? What do we believe in?

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Survival of the Adapted

The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory takes the theory of evolution--"survival of the fittest," a phrase that appeared only in a later printing of Charles Darwin's classic text--and, in alternating chapters, juxtaposes the relationship between Darwin and fellow biologist Alfred Russel Wallace with Fries' curiosity about his own adaptations to a world unprepared for his body and his means of motion

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The Times vs. Feminism

The Book Review's recent nasty review of Katha Pollitt's memoir is only the latest in a long line of outlandish attacks on feminists

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The Politics of Everyday

The political changes for which we've striven have made a material difference in the way women conceive of their lives, writes Katha Pollitt in Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories

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No Happy Endings

Escape from North Korea, the world's most repressive regime

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Creating the 21st Century Library

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls "a map of my brain"

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The Secret Lives of Plutocrats

In Richistan, Robert Frank offers a breezy, well-observed peek into this gated community. You too could visit if you graduate from "butler boot camp" and become a $120,000-a-year "household manager"

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The Kids Aren’t Alright

Daniel Brook's The Trap reminds us that inequality is bad for everyone, rich and poor

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Forget the Foundations

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded shows how nonprofit fundraising hinders radical movements

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Curiosity and a Cat Named Studs

Legendary Chicago writer Studs Terkel celebrates 95 years on May 16, and a new book this fall

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Last Interview

The late, great author on family, freethinkers and the entertainment in Indiana

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Thank You Mr. Vonnegut

With the April 11 death of Senior Editor Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times lost a dear friend. And… more

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Boomsday: Bankrupt Satire

Libertarians are a strange lot. Their targets often seem reasonable; their solutions myopic and partial. So it goes… more

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Bisexual Healing

Cringing is often a sign of unfinished political business," according to feminist author Jennifer Baumgardner. She should know.… more

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Americas Own Worst Enemy

In March 1999, President Clinton toured several Latin American countries, surveying areas devastated by Hurricane Mitch and meeting… more

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Elders of the New Left

It sounds worryingly like the setup for a punch line: What do you get when you put nine… more

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A Wingnut in Sheeps Clothing

It's deluded to imagine that human beings are rational creatures. Fearmongering works, which is why every election season… more

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Seeds of Hope: Gardening in Barren Times

The image of the Hortus conclusus--literally "enclosed garden"--has had a place in Western art and literature at least… more

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Cholera and the City

A review of Steven Johnson's new book The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Terrifying Epidemic-and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

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The Power of Mean

Fuller argues that the moral power of Rankism = that everyone experiences being a somebody and a nobody - can overcome the innate force of bullying?

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Live At Your Own Risk

Yale Political Scientist Jacob Hacker says the widening gap between rich and poor is a "great risk shift" from collective institutions to individuals.

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All Praises to the Pause

Alice Walker wants us to enjoy "the pause" - the moment when something major is accomplished and Wisdom requires us to stop and reflect.

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Blumenthals First Draft of History

Princeton University Press has published a compilation of articles by Sidney Blumenthal called How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime

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Women and Their Boxes

For too long women have dwelled on the categories that box them in.

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Fear and Voting in the USA

People are terrified over the future of the republic.

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Virginity or Death!: A Conversation With Katha Pollitt

Nation writer Katha Pollitt is interviewed about her new book Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time

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George W. Bush v. The U.S. Constitution

From misleading the nation on its reasons for war to fighing an unending war on terror, the Bush administration threatens our Constitution and our freedom.

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The Tragedy of Gary Webb

Hounded out of Journalism and pushed to suicide, the Gary Webb story is a cautionary tale about the dangers in speaking truth to power

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Is Diversity Enough?

Walter Benn Michaels asks us to consider the harm done when we worry about identity and forget about inequality

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Tracking the CIA Torture Flights

In their new book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen detail how the CIA transports detainees worldwide.

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I.F. Stone: Iconic Muckracker

Myra MacPherson wrote a new book "All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone.

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Katrina and the Politics of Disposability

News reporting on the aftermath of Katrina blames the victims rather than helps them.

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The Prairie Populist: Byron Dorgan

Sen. Byron Dorgan, a populist Democrat from North Dakota, has a new book out entitled "Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America."

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