The Comics Section: Looking to the Koran for Women’s Equality
Your favorites from Jesus and Mo!
POETRY: The sample is shining
“It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never existed before.” —Isaac Silvera, Harvard University In the universe of possibility, something new:... Read More
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
BOOK BY JENNIFER DOUDNA AND SAMUEL STERNBERG HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, 2017 304 PP.; $28.00 (HARDCOVER) $14.99 (KINDLE) CRISPR is the basis of a genome editing technology—the latest breakthrough in the grand tradition that began over... Read More
Cigarettes & Wine
BOOK BY J.E. SUMERAU SENSE PUBLISHERS, 2017 250 PP.; $25.00 Cigarettes & Wine, by J.E. Sumerau, is a novel that illuminates fresh perspectives on living out humanist values concerning gender and sexuality, while portraying emotions... Read More
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
BOOK BY KURT ANDERSEN RANDOM HOUSE, 2017 480 PP.; $30.00 In James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus claims that history is a nightmare from which he is trying to awake. The premise of Kurt Andersen’s ravenously... Read More
TV Review: Star Trek: Discovery
This review is based on the first four episodes of the new Star Trek series, and CONTAINS SPOILERS for the show up until that point. Star Trek: Discovery starts with a symbol. It is a... Read More
The Comics Section: Unchanging Truth, Raw Sewage, and Outspoken Atheists
Your favorites from Jesus and Mo, Raging Pencils, and The Atheist Pig!
