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With Uncivil Wars, David Horowitz takes a hard look at the controversial issue of reparations for slavery -- and why talking about it can be a challenge to free speech. James Mann offers his thoughts.
UNCIVIL WARS BY DAVID HOROWITZ Encounter Books This book, subtitled "The Controversy Over Reparations For Slavery," does more than examine the issue of atonement by whites over the bitter legacy of slavery. It looks at the response such a debate (or attempt at such) inspires -- a debate that unfortunately ...
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Now in paperback, Dan Chaon's short story collection Among The Missing explores the themes of absence and identity. Terry Eagan gets lost in the pages.
AMONG THE MISSING BY DAN CHAON Ballantine Books Faulkner was right when he said in Requiem for a Nun that, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." This sentiment is taken to heart in this collection by Dan Chaon, as these twelve short stories all deal with the enigma of identity, the inability ...
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Carl F Gauze fears that the authors of the Worst Case Scenario series may have gone to the well one too many times. That doesn't mean, however, that he didn't bookmark the section on Wagon Circling. You can never be too careful.
THE WORST CASE SCENARIO ALMANAC - HISTORY BY JOSHUA PIVEN, DAVID BORGENICHT, PIERS MARCHANT, MELISSA WAGNER Chronicle Books I think this series has finally jumped the shark. The first Worse Case Scenario books were packed with advice on surviving all sorts of improbable disasters, like lion attack ...
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Musician Graham Slater documents the decadence and desperation of the gig circuit in beat group-era Hamburg, albeit behind a thin veil of fiction. Tom Schulte gets in the van.
TICKET TO RIDE BY GRAHAM SCLATER Flame Books Graham Sclater, today a music publisher in England, was active as a musician in the "Hamburg Sound" era when Germany was fertile ground for English "beat groups" plying their trade and crafting their sound and style. Sclater was there as organist of The ...
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Is Life Of Pi just about a shipwrecked boy and tiger, or does Yann Martel's novel have deeper meaning? Stein Haukland ponders the book's many levels.
... by Jonathan Coe called The Rotter's Club, a fantastic book and a highly recommendable one. It certainly touched me in many ways, it's one of those books that it's impossible to put down once you get started. Or well, at 400 pages, that may be a minus, actually. And while I truly enjoyed that one, and ...
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All that glitters may not be gold, yet somehow Oscar has retained his luster for 73 years. John P. Wasser meditates on the allure of the Academy Awards and the significance of the multicultural feel of this year's ceremony.
... night of great sex with spouse/lover (even, by the looks of it, for lecherous octogenarian Dino DeLaurentiis), and a permanent record in the history books. No other film award can pretend to matter as much as Oscar -- his closest competitor, the Golden Globes, is still viewed primarily as a predictor ...
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February 1999 :: Ink Spots :: Jim O'Rourke (Chad Bidwell)
... have no thoughts at all, it's the mystery of a grouping that interests me, what happens when these people get together? For me, a successful improv encounter doesn't necessarily have to "sound" good, as long as something occurred that wouldn't have if it weren't these particular people playing together ...
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By the end of this book, James MacLaren is sure of one thing, you must buy it and read it NOW. On the way to that conlusion, however, is a whole minefield of soul searching and human failings. Like the man says, it's complicated.
... early in life for short-sighted personal motives, and seems not to have had the slightest idea of where he was ultimately going, what he might encounter there, nor what any of it might ultimately wind up wreaking upon his person. Solzhenitsyn admits to his moral failures and is upfront about them. The ...
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Does the film adaptation of Dan Brown's phenomenal, controversial best-seller live up to the hype? Is The Da Vinci Code Ron Howard's Last Temptation, a cinematic response to Mad Mel's biblical epic? Our man in the pews, Steve Stav, delivers his own sermon on the subject.
... Bishop Aringosa (Alfred Molina), has been eliminating members of the Priory of Sion; he focuses his murderous attention on Langdon and Neveu as they encounter and solve riddles and codes to the Holy Grail's whereabouts. Sir Ian McKellen almost saves this picture as Sir Leigh Teabing, Holy Grail historian ...
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Bill Hicks,Love All The People,by Bill Hicks,Soft Skull,Ben Varkentine
... conspiracy, so please…Welcome to No Sympathy Night. Welcome to You're Wrong Night…You FUCKING morons!" This book is not the place to have your close encounter of the first kind with Hicks. That's in his taped routines, where you can see and hear him become his characters. These can only recently and ...
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