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15 December 2011
The timeless joy of George Whitman's Shakespeare & Company
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Harvey Wasserman
Never doubt that simple acts of generosity and solidarity can change lives---and the world.

George Whitman and his Shakespeare & Company bookstore have been uniquely powerful living proof of that. And his daughter has...
21 November 2011
Book Review: The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress
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Marilyn Howard
The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress
William Jelani Cobb
Walker & Company, 2010
167 pp, Notes, Index

The title of William Cobb’s fourth book is related to several things...
13 November 2011
Listen to the song: Occupy Wall Street
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Dave Rovics
David lives with his family in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage with a veritable...
11 November 2011
Book Review: Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers In the South, 1865 - 1960
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Marilyn Howard
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers In the South, 1865 - 1960
By Rebecca Sharpless
University of North Carolina Press
182 pages, Notes, Index
Though I have not read The Help, by Kathryn Stockett,...
28 September 2011
Juan Williams’ book Muzzled supports need for public access TV
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Joe Sommer
Juan Williams’ 2011 book, Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, contains information relevant to the lack of public-access television in Columbus. Williams wrote the book in response to his firing from National Public Radio in 2010....
25 September 2011
The Longest War
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Jim Miles
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda
by Peter L. Bergen
Free Press, New York, 2011

Writing history is a matter of placing points in time as bookends or markers for significant events...

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