“Ambition makes you look pretty ugly,” Thom Yorke sneered on Radiohead’s seminal 1997 album OK Computer. He did […]
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As one of a smallish group of liberal Appalachian ex-pats, I have always considered myself an ambassador for […]
“The Reagan White House was one in which great expectations were allowed into play,” reflected Joan Didion in […]
Scholars in recent years have studied a variety of different media to challenge the ever-present notion of technological […]
Democracy is a funny word. In the strictest sense, it means “government by the people,” with decisions made […]
“One last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out,” Joan Didion concluded with an air of […]
High school didn’t leave much time for movies. Maybe that’s not entirely true; movies were there and time […]
I am a bit of a sucker for “first” novels. There is something about the unbridled sense of […]