This Human Season

This Human Season by Louise Dean is an historical novel of the caliber usually associated with authors like Nadine Gordimer and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Soul Murder

The discrepancy between wishful thinking and sombre reality is a series of tragic statistics.
--Soul Murder by Andrew Nugent

American Political Theatre

Last fall, in Maintaining the Deception, I wrote about how the supporting actors of American political theatre -- by limiting the scope of debate and imagination in the American public mind -- help to keep democracy down. In Dependency Limits Strategies, I observed that Campaign for America's Future and other progressive fronts for the Democratic Party were essential to undermining the democratization of capital. In Breathless Buffoonery, I noted how this progressive avant garde marginalizes authentic activists who offer genuine solutions to global crises.

In Fatuous Futurists, I chronicled their plans for positioning themselves to profit from the widescale resentment mobilized by justifiable anger at the Obama regime they themselves helped to elect, and, until recently, painstakingly apologized for. For their rising stars, capitalizing on crisis requires persistent hyperbole.

Of course, none of this is new.

Progressive Reports Now

The Progressive Reports Now series by Charles Oxtrot, featuring Amber Milgram, is the best thing since MAD magazine.

Eddie Stack

Eddie Stack tells stories from County Clare. His blog is a riot.

Gallows Lane

Ten pages into Brian McGilloway's second novel, Gallows Lane, and you know you're reading the next Simenon.

Totem Forests

To the Totem Forests, a collection of paintings and photos of coastal villages in early twentieth century British Columbia, is available online. The exhibit includes recent commentary by First Nations regarding some misinterpretations by the artists, as well as maps of the four nations represented.