• Arts
    • Ciro Guerra, by Andrew Bourne, Bomb, 2/17/16
    • Embrace of the Serpent: An Interview with Ciro Guerra, by Michael GuillĂ©n, Cineaste, 2016
    • Catching Up With Lambchop's Kurt Wagner-the AD Interview, Aquarium Drunkard, 1/28/14
    • Autre Ne Veut: Interview "This Childhood Dream", Dummy Mag., 11/8/11
    • A Blues for Albert Murray, by Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Nation, 5/16/16
    • Mozart--The greatest Composer of All?, by David Vickers, Gramophone, 1/20/15
    • The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver, by John Pareles, NYTimes, 9/21/16
    • Support Your Local Wussy, by Charles Taylor, LARB, 5/20/14
    • Twinkle, Twinkle, Vogel Staar: On Mozart's Feathered Collaborator, by Elena Passarello, Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2016
    • Portraying the Rhythm of the Vietnamese Soul: An Interview with Tran Anh Hung, by Alice Cross, Cineaste, 8/8/06
    • The Politics of Pure Emotion: An Interview with Tranh Anh Hung, Cineaste
    • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, by Walter Benjamin, 1955
    • African Cinema, TransAfrica Forum, 2000
    • Out of the Deep, by Michael Kimmelman, NYTimes Magazine, 10/13/02
    • The Jazz Wife: Muse and Manager, by Robin D.G. Kelley, NYTimes, 7/21/02
    • A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts in Urban Senegal, art exhibit, email
    • 'I am a Humanist': Niyi Osundare on the Poetry of Niyi Osundare (an Interview), by N. Ogoanah, West Africa Review, v4 n1 (2003)
    • Yeelen: a Political Fable of the Komo blacksmith/sorcerers, by Suzanne H. MacRae, Research in African Literatures, Fall 1995 v26 n3 p.57(10)
    • African Writers, Exile, and the Politics of a Global Diaspora, by Tejumola Olaniyan, West Africa Review, 2003
    • Secrets of the Sahara, by Christopher Reardon, Ford Foundation Report, 2003
    • What Kurt Cobain Teaches us about the American Way of Failure, by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 3/28/14
    • Destiny's Child, by Michael Billington, The Guardian, 11/3/04, theatre review of Tierno Bokar by Peter Brook
    • Baaba Maal's Musical Mission, by Struan Douglas, Down Beat, April 2001 v68 i4 p34, Interview
  • Literature
    • https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/26/far-from-narnia
    • https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2002/januaryfebruary/feature/the-long-shadow-invisible-man
    • The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson, by Sam Anderson, NYTimes Magazine, 3/14/13
    • Defoe and the Distance to Utopia, by J.H. Pearl, Public Domain Review, 2017
    • A Beloved British Illustrator, at the Beach, by Hettie Judah, NYTimes Style Magazine, 6/14/17
    • Swerve of shore to bend of bay--An Irishman's Diary on Joyce, Howth, and Finnegans Wake", by Terence Killeen, The Irish Times, 6/12/17
    • The Wrongful execution that inspired James Joyce's writing, by Adrian Hardiman, The Irish Times, 6/12/17
    • Doubling in Dublin, by Dominic Green, The New Criterion, May 2017
    • Best Philosophical Novels, Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, Five Books, 4/27/17
    • The Fall of the house of Cazalet, by Dominic Green, The New Criterion, March 2017
    • In Free Fall: Anne Carson's "Float" and Mary Ruefle's "My Private Property, by Nina MacLaughlin, LA Review of Books, 12/5/16
    • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joyce, by Sam Anderson, The American Scholar, 6/20/17
    • The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett's "Watt", by Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 5/3/17
    • Angry, Difficult D.H. Lawrence, by Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement, 11/16/16
    • Playing Away, Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, by Adam Sisman, Literary Review, October 2016
    • How To Make Worlds, by Caroline Levine, Public Books, 11/1/16
    • Relentlessly Relevant: The Dangerous Legacy of Henry James, by Paula Marantz Cohen, The Smart Set, 9/26/16
    • One Long Poem, by Heather Treseler, Boston Review, 8/17/16
    • The Historical Romance: Edmund Wilson's adventure with Communism (To The Finland Station), by Louis Menand, New Yorker, 3/24/03
    • How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love, by Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, 8/16/16
    • Donald Barthelme on the Art of Not-Knowing and the Essential Not-Knowing of Art, by Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, 8/16/16
    • 100 Novels Everyone Should Read, The Telegraph, 11/8/12
    • Is Reading the New Therapy?, by Ceridwen Dovey
    • Decaying Manuscripts Reveal Africa's Literate History, by Daniel Del Castillo, Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/6/02
    • List of Characters in Game of Thrones, Wikipedia, 7/12/11
    • Living Without a Life: The Disintegration of the Christian-Humanist Synthesis in Molloy, by Eric P. Levy, Studies in the Novel, Spring 2001 v33 i1 p80
  • Politics
    • The Gospel According to Mitch: Why hypocrisy is beside the point. By Gage Skidmore, The Baffler, 5/16/17
    • Cannibal Corpse, by Rob Urie, Counterpunch, 6/23/17
    • It Didn't Have to Be Hillary, by Andrew Levine, Counterpunch, 11/4/16
    • Donald Trump, Shamer in Chief, by Adam Haslett, The Nation, 10/4/16
    • Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance, by Henry Giroux, Counterpunch, 9/30/16
    • The Decay of American Politics, An Ode to Ike and Adlai, by Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch, 8/4/16
    • Beyond Trump vs Clinton, by Fran Shor, Counterpunch, 7/26/16
    • A Party of Lemmings Led by a Zombie: Why We Need to Keep Bernie Sanders' Vision Alive, by Alan Minsky, Truthdig, 7/31/16
    • Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age, Henry A. Giroux, Truthout, 8/10/16
    • The Labyrinthine Mini-Mall of Lesser Evils Versus Minimum Superego, by Arturo Desimone, Counterpunch, 8/18/16
    • The Jerk's Political Moment, by Aaron James, Chronicle of Higher Ed, 6/12/16
    • Beyond Bernie, Beyond Capitalism, by Mark Harris, Counterpunch, 6/10/16
    • Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump-Sanders Election, by Bill Martin, Counterpunch, 3/28/16
  • General Culture and Current Moment
    • Literary Voices React to President Donald Trump, by Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11/10/16
    • When Truth Becomes a Commodity, by Daniel T. Rodgers, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/15/17
    • The Age of Pain, by William Davies, The New Statesman, 11/15/16
    • Oh, The Humanities: The cultural criticism of Mark Greif, by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Bookworm, 9/10/11/2016
    • The Insomnia Machine: When Medicine Fails, Where Can The Sleepless Turn?, by Pagan Kennedy, NYTimes, 9/17/16
    • Falling For Sleep, by Rubin Naiman, Aeon, 7/11/16
    • The Art of Vulgarity, by Leanne Sharpton, T Magazine, NYTimes, 8/15/16
    • The End of Alone, by Tobias Jones
    • After Umpqua: Does America Have a Gun Problem...or a Dying Capitalist Empire Problem?, by Joe Ramsey, Counterpunch, 10/6/15
    • In Praise of Failure, by Costica Bradatan, NYTimes, 1/2/14
    • On 'The Issue of Character" and Empire, by Phil Rockstroh, Common Dreams, 6/14/11
    • Deceiving The 20th Century, by Zygmunt Bauman, New Statesman, April 1, 1994, v7, n296 p24(2)
    • The Scandal of Death, by Zygmunt Bauman, New Statesman, April 16, 1993 v6 n248 p20(2)
    • Anna Nicole Smith: She Embodied America, and that's not just a metaphor, by Tunku Varadarajan, 2/13/07
    • Malcolm X Was Right About America, by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, 2/1/15
    • Among the Disrupted, by Leon Wieseltier, NYTimes, 1/7/15
    • The Battle of Our Time: Breaking the Spell of the Corporate State, by Nozomi Hayase, Common Dreams, 1/5/15
    • Epitaph for Another September 11, by smccroskey, The Nation, 8/30/11
    • Memory, by Lawrence Weschler, Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/7/11
  • Psychology
    • Freud's Discontents, by Samuel Moyn, The Nation, 11/3/16
    • Tim Page: Letter From the Other Side--Return from a Traumatic Brain Injury, by Tim Page, Ampersand, 7/22/16
    • Psycho Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est, The Otherworldly Charm, and abysmal enigma, of the psychopath, by Elizabeth Schambelan, Book Forum, June/July/August 2016
    • Defeating My Anxiety, by J.L. Cowles, NYTimes, 11/10/15
    • Therapy Wars: The Revenge of Freud, by Oliver Burkeman, 1/7/16
    • Why Freud Still Haunts Us, by Michael Roth, Chronicle of Higher Ed., 9/23/14
    • Against Self-Criticism, by Adam Phillips, London Review of Books, 3/5/15 v37 n5
    • We Aren't The World, by Ethan Watters, Pacific Standard Magazine, 3/21/13
    • The Language of Psychotherapy: Metaphor, Ambiguity, Wholeness, by Jeremy Holmes, British Journal of Psychotherapy, v1(4), 1985
    • How Resilience Works, by Diane Coutu, Harvard Business Review, May 2002
    • On Love and Work: A Vow of Wholeness in Writing, by Anne C. Klein, Hypatia, 2002 7.2 p133-144
  • Race
    • The Perils of Being a Black Philosopher, by Brad Evans and George Yancy, NYTimes, 4/18/16
    • The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7/12/16
    • Death in Black and White, by Michael Eric Dyson, NYTimes, 7/7/16
    • With White Supremacy on Display in Paris, a Celebration of Western Hypocrisy, by Ajamu Baraka, Common Dreams, 1/14/15
    • The Bloods and the Crits, O.J. Simpson, critical race theory, the Law and the triumph of color in America, by Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic, 12/9/96
  • History
    • Losing the Thread: How Textiles Repeatedly Revolutionized Human Technology, by Virginia Postrel, Aeon Essays, 11/10/16
    • The Passing of a Sixties Showman, by Peter Collier, The New Criterion, October 2016
    • The Artists and Their Alley, In Postwar France, by James McAuley, NYTimes Style Magazine, 9/28/16
  • War and Conflict
    • Considering the Ankara Assassination Photos as History Painting, by Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12/20/16
    • The Syrian Tragedy and the crumbling of world order, by John Bew, New Statesman, 9/15/15
    • Barbarism, Civilization and Modern Politics: PTSD as a Political Football in a Hobbesian Age, by John Grant, Counterpunch, 6/22/16
    • An Invitation to Collective Suicide: From ISIS to War World IV, by Andrew Bacevich, Common Dreams, 12/3/15
    • The Taliban, Women, and the Hegelian Private Sphere, by Juan Cole, New School for Social Research, Fall 2003 v. 70 i3, p.771(39)
    • Where the Taliban Roam: Dodging the Jihad in Pakistan's Tribal Lands, by Eliza Griswold, Harper's Magazine, Sept. 2003, v. 307, i1840, p. 57(9)
    • The Politics of Violent Opposition in Collapsing States, by William Reno, Government and Opposition, 2005
    • Between Repression and Slaughter, by Bill Berkeley, The Atlantic, Dec 1992 v270 n6 p52(7)
    • The Civilian Target in Sierra Leone and Liberia: Political Power, Military Strategy, and Humanitarian Intervention, by Danny Hoffman, African Affairs, 2004, 103, 211-226
    • The 'basket case' and the 'poster child': Explaining the End of Civil Conflict in Liberia and Mozambique, by Mary Moran et al., Third World Quarterly, 2004, v25 n3 p501-519
    • From Teenage Angst to Jihad, by Abdelkader Benali, NYTimes, 1/13/15
    • The Devil They Know, Letter from Liberia, by Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7/27/98
    • The Anomaly of Barbarism, by John Gray, Lapham's Quarterly, 4/13/16
    • The Age of Hyper-Terrorism, by John Gray, New Statesman, 4/5/16
    • Matters of Choice, by Andrew Bacevich and Stephen Kinzer, Boston Review, 4/4/16
  • Philosophy
    • Unspeakable Things: Life's most meaningful experiences can leave us tongue-tied. What can be said, let alone understood, about the unsayable?, by Silvia Jonas, AEON, 1/17/17
    • Dialogues in Scrutopia, by Daniel J. Mahoney, The New Criterion, May 2017
    • A Lion In Winter: Jurgen Habermas, by Peter E. Gordon, The Nation, 9/14/16
    • The Value of Suffering, by Pico Iyer, NYTimes, 9/7/13
    • Art and Philosophy
      • 'Son of Saul,' Kierkegaard and the Holocaust, by Katalin Balog, NYTimes, 2/28/16
  • Education
    • The End of Theology?, by Tara Isabella Burton, The Chronicle of Higher Ed., 1/24/16
    • The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff et al., The Atlantic, September 2015
    • The Vanishing Big Thinker, by Alan Wolfe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/28/16
  • Obituaries
    • William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the kStruggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88, by William Grimes, NYTimes, 11/21/16
    • Hamza El Din, 76, Oud Player and Composer, is Dead, by Jon Pareles, NYTimes, 5/26/06
  • Economics
    • Brexit Blues, by John Lanchester, London Review of Books, 7/28/16
    • When Bitcoin Grows Up, by John Lanchester, London Review of Books, 4/21/16
    • Steve Jobs and Alan Greenspan, by Dean Baker, Common Dreams, 10/6/11
  • Religion
    • Thank Who Very Much?, by Ronald Aronson, www.philosophersnet.com, 8/31/06
    • The Gospel According to Terry, by Eugene McCarraher, Dissent, Fall 2014, Book review of "Culture and the Death of God" by Terry Eagleton
    • Islam's Problem With Blasphemy, by Mustafa Akyol, NYTimes, 1/13/15
  • Book Reviews
    • Philosophy on the Boulevard, by Manus Charleton, The Dublin Review, 1/11/17, (Sarah Bakewell)
    • No Small Events, by Ian P. Beacock, The Point, November, 2016 (re Leon Werth)
    • Philosophy, the Sartre Blend: Uncovering the birth of Existentialism (Sarah Bakewell), by Ray Monk, The New Statesman, 9/21/16
    • Life and Death at the Existentialist Cafe, by Richard Golsan, LARB, 6/17/16
    • Terry Eagleton is still the most formidable critic of populist late-capitalism, by Melanie McDonagh, New Statesman, 7/2/16
    • The Happiness Industry by William Davies review - why capitalism has turned us into narcissists, by Terry Eagleton, The Guardian, 8/3/16
    • A Worrying Truth, by Catharine Morris, TLS, 12/4/15
    • Locked In, by Jakub Wrzesniewski, Pacific Standard, Jan-Feb 2015
    • A Passion for Jungle People and Birdsong, by Steven Mithen, The New York Review of Books, 2/21/13, review of "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?, by Jared Diamond
    • Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary: Sleep is a Standing Affront to Capitalism, by Steven Poole, New Statesman, 7/18/13, Review of 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
    • Double Thought, by Michael Wood, London Review of Books, 11/20/08, Review of "Franz Kafka: The Office Writings"
    • Lines of Luxury, by Sam Leith, Times Literary Supplement, 3/30/16, Review of Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann and 3 other titles
  • Africa
    • Pound's Lute: The West African Voice of Gesere in The Pisan Cantos, by Michael Flaherty, Quaderni di Palazzo Serra 15 (2008): 221-233
    • To Momat with Love, by Baba Galleh Jallow, email
    • Dwelling With Spirit, by Jean-Paul Bourdier, July 1994 (West African housing)
    • Just What the Shaman Ordered, by Daniel del Castillo, Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/22/02
  • Nature, Environment, Travel
    • An Elephant Crackup?, by Charles Siebert, NYTimes Magazine, 10/8/06
    • Straw Bale Construction, Architecture, May 1995
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