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Author Interview: Kevin Mattson on a Genuine Culture War — Punks versus Reagan

The real culture war in 1980s America was waged by young people who were trying to create their own culture and jealously rejected corporate culture along the way.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: Hippies, Kevin Mattson, punks, We’re Not Here to Entertain

Book Review: “Mona” — No Prisoners Taken

It isn’t always easy being beautiful, brainy, and talented.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Mona, Pola Oloixarac.

Pop Culture Commentary: The Rise of the “Boomer Doomer”

Hippie Boomers have morphed from being figures we were horrified to see victimized (think “Easy Rider”) to the kind of people that audiences are positively happy to see get their comeuppances.

By: Michael Marano Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Boomers, Easy Rider, Joe, Michael Marano, Peter Boyle

Author Interview: Talking to Jamal Greene about How Our Demand for Rights Went So Wrong

“‘Rightsism’ gives judges much more power than they deserve in a democracy,” Jamal Greene writes. “When U.S. judges face a conflict of rights, they cancel one right or the other.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Blake Maddux, How Rights Went Wrong, Jamal Greene

Arts Remembrance: Poet and Illustrator Joan Walsh Anglund

Throughout her career, Joan Walsh Anglund remained humbled and amazed by her success, maintaining a quiet and private life.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: JOAN WALSH ANGLUND, Tim Jackson

Book Review: “One Left” — The Silence of Enslaved Women

This Korean novel dramatizes, with indelible force, the utter dehumanization of women confined to authoritarian patriarchal imprisonment.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bruce Fulton, Kim Soom, One Left, University of Washington Press

Book Review: “This Is Not My Memoir” — André Gregory’s Rich, Plentiful, and Complicated Life

I have only one criticism of André Gregory’s fabulously entertaining book: I wish it was twice as long, or even three times its 208 pages.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Andre Gregory, Cindy Kleine, My Dinner with André, This Is Not My Memoir

Book Review: “Acts of Desperation” — The Ordinary Flip-Flops of Desire

This debut novel concentrates on the vagaries of desire, but in a spare, uncomplicated, and natural fashion that sets it apart from any formulaic romance.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Acts of Desperation, Megan Nolan

Book Review: “Mike Nichols: A Life” — Portrait of a Protean Artist

This nearly 600-page text is a closely detailed, comprehensive portrait by a biographer riveted, as many of us are, by his charismatic subject.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Helen Epstein, Mark Harris, Mike Nichols: A Life

Literary Remembrance: Lawrence Ferlinghetti — The Modest Beat

Ferlinghetti was a truly Whitman-like figure who really had been through it all, traveled the world, and fought for what he believed in. I have yet to hear anyone say an unkind word said about him.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Matt Hanson

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