The Michael Oher Story Back in the spring of 2004, someone sent a tape to high school football scout Matt Lemmings. The film quality was bad, but [...] John Freeman \ Oct 12, 2006 Read More
Truthiness OK, so they lied.And if you don't want to call it lying, call it dissembling. Or fabricating. However you want to label it, [...] John Freeman \ Oct 05, 2006 Read More
Spoils Of War In the last three years, Iraq became the largest recipient of American foreign aid in U.S. history. What do we have to show [...] John Freeman \ Oct 05, 2006 Read More
Beyond Words It was a spectacle, a dream, a nightmare—and cameras were rolling from the moment it began to unfold. Indeed, by many accounts, the [...] John Freeman \ Sep 07, 2006 Read More
Straight, No Chaser In 1001 Nights , Scheherazade staved off death by telling her would-be executioner one story after another. The narrator of Elias Khoury's profoundly [...] John Freeman \ Aug 17, 2006 Read More
Good Boy Midway through her new collection of essays, Ask Now the Beasts , Corrales author Ruth Rudner notes, “There is a natural order to [...] Lisa Lenard-Cook \ Aug 17, 2006 Read More
Don’t Go There! For more on immoral vacations, visit www.tourismconcern.org.uk. For more on the Global Anti-Golf Movement, go to www.antigolf.org/english.html. Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 13, 2006 Read More
Ronald Mcdonald Must Die A dozen years ago, in one of its trademark alarming cover stories, Time magazine announced a "Battle for the Soul of the Internet." [...] John Freeman \ Jul 13, 2006 Read More
Bag Of Broken Things "You know your diagnosis," says one character to another in Charles D'Ambrosio's second story collection. "Fruit of the Loom IV," replies the narrator, [...] John Freeman \ Jun 01, 2006 Read More
Washed White Not all poetry comes to us whole. Paper erodes, tablets are smashed. We will never retrieve much of what was delivered orally. In [...] John Freeman \ Jun 01, 2006 Read More