No single review or interview can do justice to “Pay Any Price” -- the new book by James Risen that is the antithesis of what routinely passes for journalism about the “war on terror.” Instead of evasive tunnel...
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01 September 2014
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America By Kiese Laymon
Many fine authors hail from the South, that most distinctive region in the...
21 August 2014
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class By Ian Haney Lopez
31 May 2014
The Kennedy Half Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
... 07 May 2014
From the wholly updated new edition of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times, edited by Paul Loeb (Basic Books $18.99 www.theimpossible.org). Other...
22 April 2014
The fetid muck never goes away
It lingers for generations
Once a place of peace and beauty
Nothing now survives the pepto-bismol pit
Bit by bit, by bit
they all succumbed
with searing nostrils, burning lungs
to satisfy our voracious...