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Roll Over Beethoven - bookforum.com / current issue
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The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left. By Landon R. Y. Storrs. Ways of Going Home. The Novels of Clarice Lispector. The Heart Broke In. A new book looks at the evolving history of four famous musical notes. The First Four Notes:. Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination. For more info visit:. Bull; Barnes and Noble. For access to our online archives,* and receive the printed magazine for the discounted rate of $18 a year.*. To reset your password.
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Structures across Africa - bookforum.com / omnivore
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From New Left Review. Joe Trapido on the Democratic Republic of Congo. Africa’s leaky giant. Adam Shatz reviews. Congo: The Epic History of a People. By David Van Reybrouck. The Mission: Jon Lee Anderson on a last defense against genocide. Moses E. Ochonu on oil militancy. Islamist insurgency, and Nigeria’s crisis of state legitimacy. Dane Erickson on the rise of the African street. In Africa. Did Burundi just have a “ good coup. Alexander Noyes wonders (and more. Liberia is free of Ebola.
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The Innocent/Corrupt - bookforum.com / syllabi
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Reforming the Racist Criminal Justice System. Is this: Narrators of the kind I mean are adepts of a confessional mode that's actually designed to exonerate them completely. What could be more dangerous than someone convinced of his own goodness, his own innocence? Someone who believes that what he feels is far more important than what he actually does. 1990) by Wallace Shawn. The Fever (Evergreen original). For more info visit:. Bull; Barnes and Noble. Wars I Have Seen. 1945) by Gertrude Stein. Svevo was...
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Mothers of Invention - bookforum.com / current issue
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By Kenzaburō Ōe. The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy. A group of authors finds new narrative possibilities in parenthood. The family is in the curious position of being regarded as both crucial to human survival and inimical to human freedom. It bears a note of bondage down to its root; family. That wonderfully warm, nourishing-sounding word (it’s the echo of mammal. I suspect), derives from the Latin familia. A group of servants, the human property of a given household, from famulus.
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RUDELY MECHANICAL - bookforum.com / current issue
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John Palattella on Susan Howe’s My Emily Dickinson. And Souls of the Labadie Tract. David L. Ulin on The Fiftieth Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Frances Richard on Francis Picabia's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation. Joan Richardson on Angus Fletcher’s Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare. Marcela Valdes on Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I Am a Beautiful Monster:. Poetry, Prose, and Provocation. For more info visit:.
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Of Republican thought - bookforum.com / omnivore
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From The American Prospect. Alan I. Abramowitz reviews. The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House. By Thomas F. Schaller and Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation. By Matt Barreto and Gary Segura. President Obama on how Fox News. Teaches the middle class to demonize the poor. Bruce Bartlett on how Fox News. For its march to the Right. Ryan Cooper on how 2014 doomed. Jonathan Chait on Reagan, Bush.
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"Coming Down Again: After the Age of Excess" - bookforum.com / miscellany
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Coming Down Again: After the Age of Excess. Ellen Willis, whose music writing recently. Received a much-deserved revival, was often drawn to the counterculture, progressive politics, and how the two overlapped. In this essay, originally published in 1989 in the Village Voice. And reprinted in the new book. The Essential Ellen Willis. Do conservative ways of life always result in constraint? It’s a moving example of a wonderful mind at work. 8220;That’s not right? 8221; I said. Though a respect for histor...
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Search and Destroy - bookforum.com / current issue
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Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009. You Think That's Bad. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. How Much Did Social Media contribute to Revolution in the Middle East? How the age of Google has accelerated the assault on the public sphere. The Googlization of Everything:. And Why We Should Worry). University of California Press. For more info visit:. Bull; Barnes and Noble. Gave as serious an answer as he could: "Companies are defined by the values. Have full access to ...
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The Masculine Mystique - bookforum.com / current issue
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Kaelen Wilson-Goldie in Beirut. Punk: Chaos to Couture. Jon Raymond in Portland. How men with massive egos revolutionized TV—on both sides of the camera. Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad. Penguin Press HC, The. For more info visit:. Bull; Barnes and Noble. The Penguin Press, $28). Matthew Weiner ( Mad Men. David Simon ( The Wire. David Milch ( Deadwood. And Vince Gilligan ( Breaking Bad. Of bookforum.com and. To reset your password.
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Viewer Discretion - bookforum.com / current issue
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Tom Scocca on the many faces of Chairman Mao. Chinua Achebe and Rian Malan on the new Africa. How to Be Gay. By David M. Halperin. Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes). The trajectory of writer-worrier David Foster Wallace. Both Flesh and Not:. By David Foster Wallace. Little, Brown and Company. For more info visit:. Bull; Barnes and Noble. BOTH FLESH AND NOT. First in 1997’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. And again in 2005’s Consider the Lobster. Ldquo;magazine writing”&m...
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