Reviews

Shop Class

by Hank Stuever / Posted on Dec 15, 2009 | No Comments

In Tinsel, Washington Post Style-section writer Hank Stuever immerses himself in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, with some of the Americans who help make [...]

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Illusion Nation

by Anis Shivani / Posted on Dec 08, 2009 | No Comments

Amid the hoopla over Barack Obama’s “historic” presidency, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning [...]

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Killing the Thirst

by Tom Palaima / Posted on Nov 24, 2009 | No Comments

This summer Texas suffered through its worst drought in half a century. Two hundred and thirty public water systems declared mandatory restrictions. Crop and [...]

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Views of the Frontier

by David Cleaves / Posted on Nov 10, 2009 | No Comments

El Paso is as far from Texas as you can get while still being in it, a fact that holds a certain appeal to [...]

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Becoming Brazilian

by Ryland Barton / Posted on Nov 09, 2009 | No Comments

The Brazilian author Clarice Lispector is not well known in the United States, but in her native land she is considered part of a [...]

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