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Archives for September 2007

The Ghost in Their Machine

September 26, 2007 by Jan Herman

John McWhinnie@Glenn Horowitz Bookseller through Oct. 13 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side — comes as something of a surprise. Their work is not high on the list of swank art collectors. Hell, I’d be surprised if it’s on the list at all. And I don’t think McWhinnie’s Peter Plagens said to me about a Nelson […]

Hustlers’ Paradise

September 25, 2007 by Jan Herman

“Nelson Algren’s Last Night!” Made by Warren Leming and Carmine Cervi, it’s a Chicago: City on the Make(from the introduction to the 1961 edition dedicated to Joan Baez) Meanwhile, per World Can’t Wait: Today a belligerent President Bush comes to the United Nations to impress upon the world that the U.S. is in the Middle […]

Have You Heard This One Before?

September 7, 2007 by Jan Herman

Laugh track included: Via

Just So You Know, in Case You Didn’t

September 7, 2007 by Jan Herman

Paul Krugman’s The Sunni Genocide, December 8, 2005. Lede: Now that Harold Pinter has given his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he has also provided us with cover to post what may be the most incredible item — truly the hardest to believe — we’ve ever put up. It’s not only about genocide, which we’ve written […]

‘Our Palace Press’

September 6, 2007 by Jan Herman

Jay Rosen lays it out.

Orwellian Zombies All

September 6, 2007 by Jan Herman

The jingoism implicit in daily life taints everything we say, let alone what we do. To use my friend Bill Osborne’s term, we are all “Orwellian zombies.” This includes even the most sincere opponents of the BnnRpbiChris Hedges, a former war correspondent. His loathing of war in general and the Iraq war in particular expressed […]

Still Cookin’

September 3, 2007 by Jan Herman

Poetry as Insurgent Art: I am signaling you through the flames. The North Pole is not where it used to be. Manifest Destiny is no longer manifest. Civilization self-destructs. The goddess Nemesis is knocking at the door… What are poets for in such an age? What is the use of poetry? … The master class […]

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