Memory Problems
"We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People" is a hybrid work of memoir, poetry, photography, and even music.
All Reviews
Facing the Music
Hynde and Brownstein tell us, with no other agenda than full disclosure, that they were lame — or in other words, lost and undone by their own desire.
He’s not laughing at you, he’s crying with you
"Cries for Help" unfolds as a series of insane sprints across the dark side of the imagination.
Troubles with Three-ism: Body, Mind, and Soul
Owen Flanagan reviews George Makari's "Soul Machine."
Stuff of Scars
Robert Paul Moreira reviews Wally Rudolph's latest novel "Mighty, Mighty."
Street Life
Geoff Nicholson on "The Other Paris."
Queer Kinship: Truman Capote’s Early Stories and the Queer Child
Blueprints of the august, confident and delightfully acerbic writer-to-come.
Creators of the World Unite
"Information Doesn't Want to Be Free" is more than a Creators' Rights for Dummies: it provides the elements for a class-based theory of creative production.
Moon Magic
John Tytell reviews Judith Malina's "Full Moon Stages: Personal Notes from 50 Years of The Living Theatre."
Stories as Diagnosis
Terrence Holt's stated goal is to give "a truthful account" of "what remained mysterious, and often troubling, about the process of becoming a doctor."
Law and Diplomacy
Akhil Reed Amar reviews "The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities."
Putting an End to It All: Understanding Suicide
Marzio Barbagli, a professor of sociology, has produced a bundle of findings collected over 14 years of studying the act of self-killing.
Precious Windows into an Opaque Period
Sarah Mellors reviews Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism
Bliss Points: On John Seabrook’s “The Song Machine”
The one big difference between previous hit factories and today's luxury Swedish model? The earlier ones came to an end.
Man-Eaters and Child-Nappers
Man-Eaters and Child-Nappers.
“It’s time for something else to happen”: The Perpetual Motion Machine That Is Grace Jones
A woman abstracted. Grace Jones has a written her memoir on "the me" that she has "made up" rather than the one others made up.
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