topic: book review

Adichie's American Dream
June 16, 2013
I live in a small town in Minnesota and for the past few months I have started to get my weekly groceries from a different store. My Indian...
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Remembering the Korean War
May 8, 2013
In her new book In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The Americans Who Fought the Korean War, Melinda L. Pash seeks nothing less than...
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Commodified Rebellion
April 11, 2013
Your first thought on picking up Necropolis , the latest from Colombian novelist Santiago Gamboa, is that it has a rather awesome title...
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You, Only Richer
March 25, 2013
When I was in college, an older friend who frequented the café where I worked recommended I read a certain classic self-help book. Now, I...
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Anatolian Ambivalence
February 18, 2013
What deeply dissatisfies Anna, Doris Lessing’s protagonist and surrogate in The Golden Notebook, is her inability to use the novel to make...
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Revolutionary, not a Revolution
February 4, 2013
For anyone who hasn't been paying attention for the past ten years, or even the past two, here is where we stand on the decline of "...
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A Palestinian Odyssey
January 24, 2013
The question of the existence and validity of the Palestinians as a people historically tied to a specific land has been the absurdist...
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The Stillborn Two-State Solution
January 7, 2013
The 1967 Arab-Israeli war began on June 5 with a surprise assault on the Egyptian air force. By its completion, this pre-emptive Six-Day...
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Literature’s Global Age
December 13, 2012
Globalization, while retaining the veneer that it brings communities and nations together also threatens our identities as individuals and...