Criticism
Of NASDAQ Quacks and Class War
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Tom Frank rides again.
05.11.2001 | BOOKS
Of Bombs and Lies
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Two years ago NATO bombed a non-aggressive, sovereign nation. A new collection looks at how the media helped beat the drums with disinformation.
03.29.2001 | BOOKS
One Hundred Years of Solitude
BY MICHAEL MANVILLE
JR McNeill looks at the earth, in the wake of its most tumultuous century yet.
02.26.2001 | BOOKS
Cops Can Read
BY ADAM BULGER
If you haven't been reading Police magazine, you don't know what you've been missing.
02.24.2001 | MAGAZINES
Ken Burns, Scrimshaw Fetishist
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
Ken Burns works up a 19 hour documentary on jazz, and leaves the 1960s and 70s to wait in the car.
02.04.2001 | TELEVISION
Gonzo Letters
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Thank you sir, may we have another. The new volume of Thompson letters soars.
01.29.2001 | BOOKS
Selling Your Soul in a Buyer's Market
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
A new market has emerged which asks for higher sources of capitalistic inspiration and marketing models. Be afraid.
01.12.2001 | BOOKS
A Milestone, Not A Millstone: Mos Def and the Jack Johnson Band at Roseland
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
Mos Def recently debuted his new 'ghetto rock n' roll' outfit, the Jack Johnson Band, and it is equal parts rock and roll.
12.27.2000 | MUSIC
Of Nukes, Nuts and Tarot Cards: Reagan Revisited
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Frances Fitzgerald's new book on Star Wars, Reagan and the end of the Cold War confirms our worst suspicions, and adds to them. Historical dynomite for strong stomachs.
11.27.2000 | BOOKS
Read or Die
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Timothy Garten Ash, Susan George and William Leach walk into a bar... three bite sized review essays from the bottom of the Box.
09.16.2000 | BOOKS
White Sale
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
As we roll past Labor Day, George W. Bush and Al Gore struggle to differentiate themselves from one another in the public's mind. If you have trouble telling them apart, look no further than their official campaign supply stores, georgewbushstore.com and goregear.com.
09.08.2000 | INTERNET
A New Millenium Dawns, and ArchieComics.com Hits the Snooze Button
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
Archie Comics have been around for years, and it shows. Depsite their expansion onto the web via archiecomics.com, the omnipresent red-haired menace keeps his feet planted firmly in the 1950's.
09.01.2000 | INTERNET
Four Years of Living (Very) Dangerously
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Anthony Loyd walked into the middle of Sarajevo in 1992 a naive British war tourist. He left a seasoned war correspondent with a soul of toughened leather. His remarkable memoir fills in the harrowing details.
06.21.2000 | BOOKS
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post-Cold War
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Robert Kaplan is a professional downer. We are lucky to have him, but should be prepared to look beyond his hopeless worldview--its just blind idealism in reverse, and just as dangerous.
05.23.2000 | BOOKS
Past is Prologue: Vonnegut's Last Book
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Kurt Vonnegut's final book is a collection of short fiction from the 1950's. It goes down easy, but is likely to form a Kilgore Trout's parakeet sized lump in your soul.
04.19.2000 | BOOKS
The Onion's Sweet Scent
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
The last thing The Onion needs is more effusive praise, but I'll just say this anyway: Our Dumb Century is a flat-out brilliant, milk-spurting-out-of-your-nose tour de force of razor blade studded, dangerously informed wrecking ball humor. There, it's out.
02.24.2000 | BOOKS
Bruce Lee: Champ or Cheese?
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Bruce Lee made four awful movies and died, and yet he fascinates all over the world. Davis Miller explores why in a new book.
02.24.2000 | BOOKS
Rorty Rallies the Troops
BY JOHN WALSTON
Richard Rorty has long wanted the academic Left to pull its head out of its ass and get in touch with mainstream America. His latest book points the way.
02.24.2000 | BOOKS
We Resist To Win
BY NIGEL LEEDS
Britain's greatest living journalist unmasks the Third Way.
04.14.1999 | BOOKS
The Tin Drum: Language and the Collective Memory
BY JOHN MULLER
The history of this century has been "written" with images. In the "The Tin Drum" Schlöndorff deliberately recreates visually similar images to those in "The Triumph of the Will" to make the formerly spectacular seem everyday, namely in a political demonstration that is thrown off by a drumbeat and dispersed by a downpour. Did someone in Oklahoma miss the point?
09.15.1998 | FILM
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