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Terrorism

Book Review: Michel Houellebecq and the Wages of “Submission”

If you’ve recently been mourning the end of the Novel of Ideas—take heart. And dig in, for Submission offers a smorgasbord.

By: Kai Marstead Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: french fiction, Islam, Kai Maristed, Lorin Stein, Michel Houellebecq, Paris Bombing, Submission, Terrorism

Book Review: “Days of Rage” — Counterculture Craziness

How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: America's Radical Underground, Black Panthers, Bryan Burrough, Days of Rage, Symbionese Liberation Army, Terrorism, Weatherman

Book Review: “The Wanting” — Ambitious and Audacious Fiction about the Middle East

There are so many characters to root for in “The Wanting” that you tend to read with your head swimming, and with an increasing sense of urgency as the senseless is revealed to have a logic of its own.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: fiction, Israel, Michael Lavigne, novel, Terrorism, The Wanting

Short Fuse: Who Hates Yeats?

Critic Paul Berman’s problem with the arts plays too significant a role in his work to be written off as but the tin ear of an historian and social thinker with weightier matters on his mind; his misreading of the arts is a fulcrum of his social thinking. The Flight of the Intellectuals, by Paul […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: art, Islamist, Melville House, nonfiction, Paul-Berman, Short Fuse, Terrorism, The Flight of the Intellectuals, Yeats

Theater Review: Playtime for Terrorism

by Bill Marx “The way of the Samurai is a natural way of the Universe, Ma, and to learn it, one must live one’s life from first to last in self-control. I know all about that stuff now.” — Wynne in Adam Rapp’s “Stone Cold Dead Serious” Just how far are American playwrights from dramatizing […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Adam-Rapp, Essential-Self-defense, Featured, Gurnet-Theatre-Project, Persona Non Grata, Terrorism, Theater

Sympathy for a Terrorist?

Salman Rushdie’s latest novel wants readers to fall in love with — or at least feel sympathy for — an Islamic militant.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books Tagged: Islam, Salman-Rushdie, Shalimar-the-Clown, Terrorism

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