Garcia Lorca, Birthday Regards
Federico Garcia Lorca, high in the pantheon of the worlds poets, was born on this day, June 5, in 1898. …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
The Rape of Europa
Here’s a recommendation for a couple of your hours. You won’t think them ill spent. The Rape of Europa is …
Book TV
BookTV.org takes over CSPAN2 on weekends. Lewis Lapham, the venerable editor of Harpers Magazine and proud Liberal is scheduled for …
City Lights
City Lights Bookstore! New website. Check it out! www.citylights.com Chomsky’s Interventions available.
National Security State
Andrew J. Bacevich, whose work on American militarism we have drawn your attention to, has a brief review of five …
Books to Look At
A couple of titles caught my eye in the weekend reviews. Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas by …
Kicking In The Door
The scene was familiar: uniformed soldiers, rifles swinging restlessly, big man at the door, boots, gun butts smashing smashing, male …
Two Books from City Lights
City Lights Books had two books of its own publishing house arrive today. Don’t stop wanting them until they are …
Film: Amazing Grace
Darn! I wanted to like it. I wanted to like it real bad. Amazing Grace is the latest film by …
Theatre: After The War
Phillip Kan Gotanda is a San Francisco playwright so it was particularly interesting to see his “After the War,” about …
Mercenary Armies
For a truly distressing day you could do no worse than read Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s …
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
by Nazim Hikmet Things I Didn’t Know I Loved it’s 1962 March 28th I’m sitting by the window on the …