Stalker
Scott Spires
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Unholy Canon
Reading banned books under the Ayatollah
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The story of Puerto Rican hiphop.
Electric Bugalú While some whites claim that hiphop in the Eminem era has moved beyond blackness, Puerto Ricans have all but disappeared from the official history and current discourse. You now know about the Beastie Boys, but what about Big Pun or Fat Joe? This is interesting, given that Puerto Ricans were there at the
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Like its subject, DeLillo’s new novel is empty.
Write the Rich In 1985, there was an investment opportunity, a new stock trading on the busted literary market. This IPO was White Noise; the CEO and author of the business plan was Don DeLillo. A major publishing house fronted the money and obviously wanted a return. Weird in-laws nationwide were whispering at parties, offering
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Hype and Hypodermy
James Frey is clean_ but is he great?
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Be Seeing You
Keeping a low profile, on and off the grid.
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Survivalism goes mainstream.
Your Safe Room Americans haven’t thought this much about surviving the “unthinkable” since the Kennedy administration. In the early 80s, when Reagan officials told the country to prepare for “winnable nuclear war,” America just stared back, dumbfounded, then quietly returned to pissing its collective pants. Until recently, the only people seriously contemplating living through a
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The Fire Last Time: Post-civil rights black politics
Black Political Organizations in the Post- Civil Rights Era is a slim but worthwhile collection that examines the role of the country’s leading black organizations in the post-civil rights era. Published by Rutgers University Press, its general diagnosis is that organizations like MLK’s SCLC, NAACP, CORE and the Urban League have floundered in the last
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The Days After: Two small books on the meaning of September 11.
The collapse of the towers was a fiery crush of stone and steel, a scene that Hollywood directors–and average Americans–had imagined for years. For a few weeks after the attacks, I wore a flag pin on my lapel, and could not fathom attempts to explain 9/11, nor even to place it into an historical context.
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Revisiting four famous assassinations.
Revealing Secrets Americans tend to be ignorant of history, particularly American history. The public has been conditioned to dismiss any domestic event labeled a “conspiracy theory” while simultaneously blindly accepting plots against the Republic involving such unlikely allies as the secular dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and the militant fundamentalists of al Qaeda. With the release
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