Questions for Tariq Ali
by Theodore Hamm and Christian ParentiExpress
Tariq Ali will deliver a talk, “Obama’s War,” at the School of Visual Arts on Monday, April 19, as part of the London Review of Books’ 30th anniversary celebration. Ali’s Night of the Golden Butterfly, the final novel in his critically acclaimed Islam Quintet, comes out this month from Verso.
THE ACCIDENTAL COP
by Doug CordellExpress
“It’s different than this building,” Hector said as I counted out the bills.
“What do you mean?”
He hesitated.
“Less quiet.”
Mexico City: A Safe Haven?
by Michael MillerExpress
When I first arrived in Mexico City last summer, it was still easy enough to believe that the madness of the drug war was a remote and relatively minor distraction: a dispute between rival cartels; a conflict largely confined to the border or distant mountain ranges that hide valleys of poppies and marijuana plants.
TRANS SIBERIA
by Greta Hansen, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, and Warm EngineExpress
From January 28 through February 19 of this year, Warm Engine (Greta Hansen and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong) rode the entire Trans-Siberian Railway, studying the impact of Communism on the design of the Russian and Chinese cities that grew up along the railroad.
Waygooks: Stories from Korea: Compiled and Edited by J. Scott Burgeson
Express
The following stories are the first in a series for The Brooklyn Rail about the lives of expatriates in Korea. PRINT EXCLUSIVE
Tibet’s Continuing David and Goliath Story: Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin with Williams Cole
by Williams ColeExpress
Tibetan directing partners Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin have produced a catalogue of films spanning more than two decades that have cemented them as not only award-winning filmmakers but as prominent voices in the Tibetan exile community and beyond.
A Rebel and His Causes
by Michael SandlinExpress
When you consider the gentlemanly quietude of post-millennial literary criticism, it’s hard not to appreciate the Big Noise that legendary hipster academic (or “nonacademic academic” as he oxymoronically called himself) Leslie Fiedler generated early in his career.
It’s Elementary…
by Dylan ByersExpress
Two blocks north of Washington Square Park, sitting at the bar of the Knickerbocker with a bottomless glass of wine on a wet weekday afternoon, the author of six novels, five poetry collections, and editor of a nearly 30-year-old literary journal tries to reason out a solution to the following mystery: how did nonfiction become so much more popular than fiction?
What the Wild Things Do
by Chris MichelExpress
In his new book, Gordon Grice tries to convince us that the Discovery Channel hasn’t cornered the market on gruesome nature documentary.
Should Jackets Be Required?
by Victoria MariniExpress
his is not a fairytale, though it begins like one. Once upon a time publishing houses sold books to booksellers, and they in turn sold books to readers. To some extent this is still very true, but the ominous glow of amazon.com, of Kindles and Nooks, has stricken publishing’s traditional business models to near paralysis.
