A review of Deconstructing Organized Crime, a uncommonly readable academic text about the intersections of organized crime, terrorism, and globalization. Continue reading Reviews in Brief: Deconstructing Organized Crime: a historical and theoretical study, by Joseph L. Albini and Jeffrey Scott McIllwain
It’s day three of CCLaP’s “Year in Books 2012” report! Today, staff writer Karl Wolff takes a look at his favorite reads in 2012, broken down by specific category. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays Wednesday: The Year in Books 2012: Karl Wolff’s Picks
This week for my penultimate entry in the On Being Human series I examine “Nekropolis” by Maureen McHugh, a novel about an artificial being called a harni and Hariba, a woman who has been “jessed” into subservience. Continue reading On Being Human: Nekropolis, by Maureen McHugh
This week I review Mary Kennedy Eastham’s short story collection, “Squinting Over Water,” where characters have to come to terms with loss. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Squinting Over Water: Stories, by Mary Kennedy Eastham
This book proves its usefulness in its good timing. Coleman and Weaver investigate the numerous pop cultural pieces here, analyzing how specific treatments reflect attitudes of society at large. Continue reading Reviews in Brief: Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture, by Kimberley McMahon-Coleman and Roslyn Weaver
In this week’s penultimate installment of “On Being Human,” Karl Wolff reviews Jim Thompson’s 1952 underground classic “The Killer Inside Me,” a book told from the perspective of a small town deputy sheriff from Texas who also happens to be a serial killer. Continue reading On Being Human: “The Killer Inside Me,” by Jim Thompson
This week at CCLaP, Karl Wolff reviews “The Cage” by Gordon Weiss, a former UN worker who writes about the human rights disaster of Sri Lanka in its battle with the Tamil Tigers. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: The Cage, by Gordon Weiss
Are Michael Bay’s Transformers movies and the trend of using drones for assassination part of the same moral sickness? Continue reading Democracy is not for the People, by Josef Kaplan @thethepoetryblog
If you liked “the Da Vinci Code” or similar books involving conspiracies and ancient artifacts, “The Radix,” by Brett King may be the book for you. Continue reading The Radix, by Brett King @ Joe Bob Briggs
These remarks will be classified in The Critic’s Notebook. Unlike a more tightly constructed and formal book review, these notes will possess a larval nature: impressionistic, half-formed, spontaneous. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell
The Driftless Area Review 