I recently rewatched The Grapes of Wrath and then reread the book. They are both great pieces of art. Back in my social realist days of art in the late 90s and early 00s, I found the slightly more optmistic end of the movie irritating,...
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Elizabeth Kolbert's review of Naomi Klein's new climate change book. Kolbert had her problems with it, primarily that Klein doesn't offer a.
R.A. Montgomery, author of the Choose Your Own Adventure children's book series, has died. It is impossible to overstate how awesome these books were when I was 10 or 11.
I dislike science fiction as a genre. While there are a couple of science fiction films I do like, they are not of the norm of the genre (Solaris, La Jetée) and I simply don't have time for reading science fiction because I find the...
Not that it's surprising that any writer or reader with even reasonable taste would reject Ayn Rand as horrible writing, but still, Flannery O'Connor in 1960: I hope you don’t.
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I don't need to read any of these children's books to know Rush Limbaugh deserves the Children's Choice Book Award for his no doubt outstanding magnum opus, "Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans." I think you know you need to...
Columbia University named the 2014 winners for the Bancroft Prize today, which is the most prestigious prize in the field of U.S. history. This year's winners are both close to.
Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is a choice with which no one with decent taste in books could disagree. She's deserved it for years. It's also.
Who needs some reading material? Horny Ghost of Osama Bin Laden: Rise of the Ghost has been published. When an American diver goes in the search of the body of Osama bin Laden, he's surprised to find not only the body,but also Bin Laden's terrifying...
Time to make an announcement that's been in the works for awhile. Today, I signed a contract with The New Press. The book is tentatively titled "Out of Sight: A.
I have a piece up at David Axe's joint on military institutions and the USAF: With the Iraq War over and the fighting in Afghanistan winding down, why does the.