The Resisters

Author Interview: Gish Jen on “The Resisters”

Gish Jen’s new novel asks, Is ambition worthwhile in a world without justice?

Adam Manfredo February 15, 2020 at 10:54 pm on Music Feature: The New Funk of Ripe — Making Happiness a “Heavy Emotion”Nothing Ripe here, just live at HOB Feb 15 in BOS, all pop, no deep funk, at once sounded like...
Amanda Ezell February 15, 2020 at 4:49 pm on Commentary: #MeToo and Dethroning Rock DeitiesIndeed! She has told so many contradicting versions of that story but people hold to it like gospel because cancel...
Douglas Bowker February 14, 2020 at 7:37 pm on Film Review: “What Did Jack Do? — David Lynch’s Amusing MonkeyshineMy running theory is that all of the lines, or almost all, are lifted from dozens of old noir detective...
Benny Sato Ambush February 14, 2020 at 10:50 am on Theater Review: August Wilson’s “Radio Golf” — The Culture We BuildDear Ms.Hunter ~ Nine of August Wilson's ten-play America Century Cycle are set in Pittsburgh's Hill District. His Ma Rainey's...
Richard deMeulles February 14, 2020 at 10:27 am on Book Review: “The Ideas That Made America” — Not Made in AmericaDoes Ratner- Rosenhagen really suggest "that ideas can be as powerful in fashioning the course of history as war and...