"Conduct of Saints”: conscience, crime, and Catholics in post-Nazi Rome
Emanating from a small publishing house, this novel likely has no five- or six-figure advertising budget, and may escape notice. Make sure your local library gets it.
“The Gatekeepers”: brutally frank and powerful
If you have any interest at all in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "The Gatekeepers" is essential viewing.
“World War Z” as World War Proletariat
If you're tired of hearing about zombies...that's probably too bad. America's most popular monster shows no sign of shambling away quietly.
"Wolverine" sequel is much sharper than the first
The follow-up to the abysmal 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which royally ticked off fans and critics alike, The Wolverine fixed everything that was wrong with the eponymous character's story.
Reza Aslan's “Zealot” exposes Christianity's revolutionary roots
He leaves readers with a question which, curiously, he does not even attempt to answer.
Cop show reveals the U.S.-Mexico divide
What makes "The Bridge" fascinating is not only its characters, but what is going on behind them.
“Fruitvale Station”: an American tragedy
Ryan Coogler gives us Fruitvale Station as a symbolic recapitulation of the Stations of the Cross, recounting the last 30-plus hours of Oscar Grant III's life.
Living New Deal illuminates labor, art history on San Francisco’s waterfront
Living New Deal will catalogue and preserve New Deal projects in the U.S.
“The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: A Comedy”: What??
Lefcourt's cream pie in the face of the old Bolshevik is Trotsky's second assassination.
Stevie Wonder boycotts Florida, opposes “stand your ground” (video)
The 63-year-old singer said at a concert in Quebec City, Canada, on July 14, that until the law is abolished in Florida, he will "never" perform there again.
