The 10 Best American Poems

from The Guardian UK The 10 best American poems The list could go on and on, but these are the poems that seem to me to have left the deepest mark on US literature – and me   Engraving of Walt Whitman by George C Cox. Image: Bettmann/Corbis   For whatever reason,...

SALON: James Frey Does Jesus

from Angry Salon James Frey does Jesus If the faux-memoirist thinks he’ll offend anyone by depicting Christ as a whoring drunk, he’ll be disappointed BY LAURA MILLER Salon Apparently James Frey has a tiny man in his head, like some kind of internalized...

ATTN: God Does Not Hate Women

from NPR New Bible Draws Critics Of Gender-Neutral Language by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the old translation of the world’s most popular Bible, John the Evangelist declares: “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a...

Mixed Martial Arts Rally in Midtown Manhattan

from The New York Observer Kapow! Mixed Martial Artists to Rally in Midtown for Legialization By David Freedlander March 16, 2011 | 9:54 a.m. Over 1,000 fans of Mixed Martial Arts are expected to rally today in front of Radio City to call on lawmakers to legalize the...