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 concrete path before. I was interested in this precisely because I think struggling for solutions...
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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.
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 have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as...
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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.
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 LGM's heart. One winner was Ira Katznelson's Fear Itself, which Scott reviewed here. The other...
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.
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 Century of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe" and is a history of American corporate mobility that builds...
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.
The great Texas writer John Graves has passed. Goodbye to a River, about a float trip down the Brazos before it was dammed, is a truly wonderful book.