Author Profile: Philip Roth Indignation By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, hardcover, $26 John Freeman \ Sep 25, 2008 Read More Philip Roth (Nancy Crampton)
Poetry Review: Colosseum By Katie Ford Colosseum By Katie Ford Many of our greatest poets came to us in ruins. The gouging lyrics of the Greek poet Sappho, for instance, were rescued from [...] John Freeman \ Sep 11, 2008 Read More
Poetry Review: Zombie Haiku By Ryan Mecum Zombie Haiku By Ryan Mecum When you find a safe place to stop and reload your shotgun, take a minute to listen to what your zombie pursuers are [...] Steven Nery \ Sep 04, 2008 Read More
Book Reviews: Dark Humor For Dark Times Books For Your Survival “When life gives you radioactive lemons, use a lead-shielded catapult to launch them at the foragers attacking your compound."—Rob KutnerWith the apocalyptic reference [...] Steven Nery \ Aug 14, 2008 Read More
Book Reviews Say You're One Of Them By Uwem Akpan A reader who skirts around the international page of news sections may recall the grim events around which Uwem Akpan’s debut story collection [...] John Freeman \ Jul 24, 2008 Read More
Book Review: The Enchantress Of Florence The Enchantress Of Florence By Salman Rushdie In the 16 th century, a tall, blond foreigner rides into the heart of the Mughal Empire wearing a strange overcoat and bearing [...] John Freeman \ Jul 17, 2008 Read More
Undead In L.a. Life Sucks By Jessica Abel And Gabe Soria, Illustrated By Warren Pleece Vampires, oh boy! In a day and age obsessed with the zombie genre (the 2000s), once in a while it's nice to revisit [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 10, 2008 Read More
Rocking The Boat The Selected Essays Of Gore Vidal Gore Vidal is one of America’s most pugnacious, intelligent and politically engaged living essayists, but until now, the only book of his selected [...] John Freeman \ Jul 03, 2008 Read More
Net Power Here Comes Everybody By Clay Shirky Millions of citizens around the globe contribute to an online encyclopedia for free. Hundreds of young people show up simultaneously in a city [...] John Freeman \ Jun 12, 2008 Read More Clay Shirky
Dutch In New Amsterdam Netherland By Joseph O’neill Out-legged by news networks that never sleep, outsold by the juggernaut of visual entertainment, the novel doesn’t bring us the news as it [...] John Freeman \ May 29, 2008 Read More Joseph O’Neill