Book Review: Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
BY RONAN FARROW LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, 2019 414 PP.; $30.00 "It's a big club, and you ain't in it." So goes the punchline to an old George Carlin bit on our ruling elite that... Read More
The Comics Section: Tribal Epistemology and a Bold New Health Plan
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
The Comics Section: The Great Hoax and Trick Or Trump
The latest from Cagle Cartoons! [caption id="attachment_22603" align="alignnone" width="500"] The Great Hoax by Milt Priggee, Oak Harbor, WA[/caption] [caption id="attachment_22604" align="alignnone" width="500"] Trick Or Trump by R.J. Matson, CQ... Read More
The Comics Section: Cruel Words and Disturbing Honesty
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
The Testaments
BY MARGARET ATWOOD NAN A. TALESE, 2019 432 PP.; $28.95 [Mild spoiler alert: this review contains plot details of the book.] During the torture session conducted by the Big Brother interrogator O’Brien in George Orwell’s... Read More
Machines Like Me
BY IAN MCEWAN NAN A. TALESE/DOUBLEDAY, 2019 333 PP., $26.95 Early on in this novel, the momentous question it raises—what is a human being?—becomes maddeningly opaque, and the anguished vibes that pervade Machines Like Me... Read More
The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
P.E. MOSKOWITZ BOLD TYPE BOOKS, 2019 272 PP.; $28.00 Words like “controversial” and “provocative” are overused. When you read or hear that so-and-so’s stand-up comedy is “controversial,” that’s usually the culture-war commentariat wishing that reaction... Read More