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Publishers Weekly reviews JOHN THE POSTHUMOUS 26 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
An experimental work that reads more like a wandering through the contents of one’s mind than a novel, Schwartz’s latest will appeal to readers interested in blurring the boundaries between fiction, p...
Arts Fuse reviews ACORN 22 Aug 2013 | 02:50 am
“But Ono’s more purely conceptual games have a lovely directness. She routinely evokes sky, earth, and details from the natural world and then juxtaposes their scale with the ordinary human experience...
In the Guardian, our own editor and co-publisher COLIN ROBINSON proposes a one-year writers’ moratorium. 20 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
Paradoxically, the deluge of writing itself contributes to declining readership. It’s not just that if you’re writing then you can’t be reading. It’s also that the sheer volume of what is now availabl...
RT interviews Norman Finkelstein, author of KNOWING TOO MUCH, about renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks 14 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
Israel has made clear over and over again that its bottom line is it wants approximately 9.5% of the West Bank, what it calls the “main settlement blocks” including East Jerusalem. Most of the new set...
Publishers Weekly reviews HEMINGWAY LIVES! 12 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
This book is a celebration of Hemingway’s oeuvre by a lifelong devoted admirer and a valuable piece of interpretive criticism. Read the full review at Publishers Weekly.
Waging Nonviolence reviews THE PASSION OF BRADLEY MANNING 12 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
Our society isn’t well disposed to listening to witnesses, but is there a tipping point where the actions of a whistleblower induce a reaction while so many other witnesses have not? Chase Madar is a...
Dazed interviews artist and author Clark Stoeckley about THE UNITED STATES VS. PFC BRADLEY MANNING 12 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
Clark Stoeckley is a graphic designer, artist and lecturer using his artistic background to report the controversial trial of Bradley Manning. Back in 2010, he transformed a former U-Haul truck into a...
New Politics reviews DRONE WARFARE 6 Aug 2013 | 02:57 am
In Drone Warfare, Benjamin has succeeded in undermining the “all other things being equal logic” underlying popular support of the drone program. She effectively argues that a persistent failure to co...
The Mexican congress mentions CYPHERPUNKS in a resolution regarding PRISM 5 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
According to a Spanish-speaker in our office, “essentially it seems to be a committee report on intelligence from the Mexican congress that quotes Cypherpunks and says the Snowden affair shows that As...
Cryptome publishes the government’s letter banning CLARK STOECKLEY from the Bradley Manning trial, and Stoeckley’s response 5 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
I have been a proud member of the credentialed media since March of 2012, attending nearly everyday. I have been hired to illustrate a book of the pretrial, trial, and sentencing; and my drawings have...
