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The political pundit and creator of The Daily Show discusses the feminist elite, slut-shaming, and the difference between essay and memoir
Global warming is but one of nine or 10 different ways in which human civilization is threatening to cross boundaries of over-consumption and overuse. These, will undermine the natural foundations on which our civilization is built.
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In "The Kings and Queens of Roam," author Daniel Wallace illustrates the power words have to make worlds, both in the tragic whimsy of the world his words create and in the sad, scary world one character builds for another.
How Ken Kesey's book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, helped to significantly change public opinion about the value of state mental institutions.
A handful of new books from (or about) Florida
This is the first chapter from the picaresque novel by noted author and journalist Lionel Rolfe, which recounts the sexual and political travails of the irascible, blacklisted title character, a reporter still harboring his besieged idealistic belief in humanity's innate goodness and America's dubious potential for good amid a reality of avarice, pragmatism, cynicism, and materialism.
In 2006, the Weekly Alibi became the only newspaper with the cojones to take a chance on a newly syndicated column called ¡Ask a Mexican! Six years later, the racy Q & A runs weekly in 39 newspapers around the country. Gustavo Arellano has snuck into our hearts like a border-crosser in the trunk of an Impala.
To get the skinny—if there is such a thing—on Mexican food in the U.S., Alibi restaurant critic Ari LeVaux broke tortillas with Arellano about his new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.