Demonic Males, Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

from International Crime Authors Reality Check Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Those three questions formed the title of Paul Gauguin’s 1897 painting, which he finished while living on a South Pacific Island. It is Gauguin’s vision of paradise....

Tintin Dans Le Chambre Forte

from The New York Times A Library’s Approach to Books That Offend By ALISON LEIGH COWAN Ruby Washington/The New York Times The vault-like room in the Brooklyn Public Library where “Tintin au Congo” was reshelved after a patron took issue with the book. The cartoonist...

i sold andy warhol (too soon) by RICHARD POLSKY

from Shelf-Awareness Book Review: i sold Andy Warhol. (too soon) i sold Andy Warhol. (too soon) by Richard Polsky (Other Press, $23.95, 9781590513378/1590513371, September 15, 2009) A wild roller coaster ride is nothing compared to the vertiginous ups and downs of the...

Death Cab For Kerouac

from Billboard Magazine Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar Team Up For Kerouac Soundtrack by Michael D. Ayers, N.Y. In an ode to iconic author Jack Kerouac, alt-country veteran Jay Farrar has teamed up with Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard for a...

The Top Ten Book Sites On The Net

from The Times Online The 10 best book websites On the internet, you can download page after page of free material, post your work online and even catch a publisher’s eye by Mike Peake Literature is thriving on the web. It’s not just for sale on mega-sites such...