- Logical Conclusions
- In World Made By Hand, James Howard Kunstler moves beyond the realm of hypothesis and abstraction, conveying his vision of a post-oil society through a richly descriptive narrative.
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- A Novelist in Full
- Within the first three pages of Susan Choi’s hypnotically absorbing new novel, A Person of Interest, a mail bomb blows up in the office of a brilliant young computer science professor. Review by Azita Osanloo.
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- The Right Way, Reclaimed
- The Great Awakening is important not only because it seeks to incite changes the nation sorely needs, but because it shows that the Bible is a sort of Rorschach test, as effective a tool for liberation as for oppression.
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- More Than One Man Can Chew
- “Big claims. Not too much support. Mostly unconvincing.” Observer reviewer James McWilliams casts a critical eye on Michael Pollan’s most recent book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.
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- The Worst News in the World
- Anyone concerned with human rights–with humanity in general–will come away from James Dawes’ That The World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity troubled and well informed. Dawes considers humanitarian aid and human rights work, and examines the ways in which news of such work has been disseminated and received during and after the world’s worst atrocities.
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