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Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2008
March 17, 2025CLR writers select the best books of 2008.
Non-Fiction Reviews
What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
March 15, 2025"But then an asteroid 6 miles across – that’s bigger than Mt. Everest! – slammed into...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What’s Killing the Honeybees?
March 14, 2025"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
March 13, 2025The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India
March 12, 2025"India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed...
Non-Fiction Reviews
David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers
March 12, 2025"Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Christine MacDonald on the Corruption of the Environmental Movement
March 11, 2025"But after watching environmentalists blatantly engage in greenwashing for their corporate sponsors, I can tell you...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
March 9, 2025Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Travel
Being Kidnapped at Knifepoint Is Not Enough to Change David Lida’s Love for Mexico City
March 7, 2025"But with neoliberal governments, an unjust distribution of wealth is becoming the norm. Even in wealthy...
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