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Salon.com
November 7, 2002
Jonathon Keats |
"The Spinster and the Prophet" by A.B. McKillop In the 1920s, judges ridiculed a Canadian woman who said H.G. Wells plagiarized her book, but a modern scholar finds her case convincing.   |
Salon.com
November 6, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
How the world sees Americans Journalist Mark Hertsgaard, author of "The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World," travelled the globe gathering opinions about the U.S. He talks about the surprising results. |
Reason
November 2002
Sara Rimensnyder |
Soundbite: Gerard James Would-be censors have long posited a monkey-see, monkey-do relationship between media and audiences. Violent images create violent kids, they warn. Gerard Jones upends that thinking in his new book Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence. |
Reason
November 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Pride and Prejudice The false choice between patriotism and skepticism: Americans who are prepared to acknowledge America's virtues and its crimes will be comfortable neither with Bill Bennett's uncomplicated love-it-or-leave-it attitude nor with Noam Chomsky's reflexive condemnations of the U.S. |
Reason
November 2002
Charles Pena |
Murder Most Foul To stop genocide, the U.S. must learn to intervene more carefully, argues Samantha Power in A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. |
Reason
November 2002
Jesse Walker |
The Secret History of Television Two books about Philo Farnsworth have been published this year: Evan Schwartz's The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television and Daniel Stashower's The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television. |
Salon.com
October 31, 2002
Peter Kurth |
"You Shall Know Our Velocity" by Dave Eggers Stop squawking about the money, the youth and the fame -- there's a real writer among us, and Dave Eggers' new novel proves it. |
Salon.com
October 29, 2002
Laura Miller |
Early American horror show The Salem Witch Trials remain a hideous -- yet disturbingly familiar -- mystery. |
Salon.com
October 28, 2002
Laura Miller |
Primeval terror (since 1929) You think Halloween has pagan roots? Guess again. Two new histories of America's second favorite holiday reveal the truth. |
Salon.com
October 24, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Very personal finance "Currency of the Heart" transcends a pathetic genre and delivers a masterpiece. It is a personal finance book with no clear instructions on how to get rich, except, perhaps, the most important: the principle that money should be treated with respect, even awe. |
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