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9:00AM
APR 21 2008
Bringing down the house
Here's the inaugural issue of the Journal of Language Contact. Talker in the City: Though preparation for Titlepage is taking up much of his time these days, Daniel Menaker is still editing books. From Print, an interview with Matthew Diffee, editor of The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker and The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap; and drawing fire: Contemporary comics take a hard look at the conflict in Iraq, and metaphors abound. A review of The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice by Terry Kenneth Aladjem. A review of Moral Value and Human Diversity by Robert Audi. A review of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century by Philip Bobbitt (and more). From Monthly Review, Istvan Meszaros on the communal system and the principle of self-critique. Manufactured scarcity and the profits of deindustrialisation: Is "green capitalism" a new paradigm of sustainable production or a license to shut down plants and print money? A review of Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik by Chester E. Finn, Jr. Readers of the 2002 nonfiction bestseller Bringing Down the House might wonder why any embellishment was necessary for the film "21". From Logos, more on Mearsheimer and Walt's The Israel Lobby.
