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Alondra Nelson on MSNBC: Racial health disparities
Clips from Alondra's interview with Melissa Harris-Perry. Nelson is author of BODY AND SOUL.
3 UMP books are Lambda Literary Award finalists
The 25th annual Lambda Literary Awards will be announced June 3, 2013.
Japanese Postmodernism and Fandom: The Rise of Raiden and What Kojima Really Meant
Features Hiroki Azuma (OTAKU): "What is important here is not really the content of theories of postmodernism but the fact that in Japan this highly complex body of thought turned into a kind of faddish media frenzy."
"German Autumn" Reveals Similarities Between Postwar Germany and Our World Today
Review of Stig Dagerman's account of life in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich.
American Songwriter on Love in Vain
Arguably the most notorious screenplay to never be filmed, Love in Vain is nearly as mythic as its subject, the doomed bluesman Robert Johnson.
Times Higher Ed on Saito Tamaki's HIKIKOMORI
Atsushi Senju discusses the strange case of Japanese ‘social withdrawal’
Ben Mankiewicz's 6 favorite books
TENDER COMRADES chosen as must-read particularly during Oscars season.
MPR: Sami-themed coffee shop celebrates an arctic culture
'Stories from Jonestown' Is a Poignant Testimony to Spirit, Forgiveness and Stoic Resilience
Popmatters reviews STORIES FROM JONESTOWN by Leigh Fondakowski
Publishers Weekly on Artist Animal
Review of the new book by Steve Baker.
Blogcritics reviews Stories from Jonestown
"There are some voices that have remained unheard through all of this time."
Environment and Planning D: An interview on Take Back the Economy
With Katherine Gibson, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy.
Trees provide touchstones in daughter’s story about farm
Interview with Gayla Marty, author of Memory of Trees.
Bibliosaurus Text reviews Stories from Jonestown
Review of Leigh Fondakowski's new book.
In Los Angeles Review of Books: Lisa L. Moore's new Sister Arts column
The author of SISTER ARTS has a column by the same name. This post, she discusses Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, among others.
New Orleans Review: Alien Phenomenology
What do computer microchips, chicken wings, baby pandas, and packs of cigarettes have in common?
Roderick Ferguson on academia and minority inclusion
The author of THE REORDER OF THINGS talks on Against the Grain.
Bookforum review of Stories from Jonestown
"For perhaps the first time, we hear the voices of the Temple instead of seeing the casualties."
Screening the Past: Cinema's Alchemist
A review of the new book on the films of Peter Forgacs, edited by Bill Nichols and Michael Renov.
Screening the Past: Brutal Vision
A review of the book by Karl Schoonover.
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