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The Elite Consensus – George Draffan

April 19, 2012

Financial and business corporations throw millions of dollars at think tanks, lobbyists and universities, exploiting writers and artists galore. Their assignment? To twist words, gnarl symbols, sell lies, whip people…

An Unreasonable Woman – Diane Wilson

April 18, 2012

Portrait by Robert Shetterly, from his portrait series Americans Who Tell the Truth. When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most…

Loving in The War Years – Cherrie L. Moraga

April 17, 2012

Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its…

Wump World

April 16, 2012

The Pollutians invade the Wump World and turn the green meadows into a concrete jungle. and here’s a reader review; There are a ton of children’s books written about taking…

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2

April 15, 2012

In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one…

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

April 14, 2012

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her…

The Ecocriticism Reader

April 13, 2012

The Ecocriticism Readeris the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and…