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Royal Personifications and Popular Sovereignty: Passing the Torch
In October 1795 while riding to Parliament in a glass-enclosed royal carriage King George III became the target of a crowd protesting war and demanding bread. Like Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the U.K. throne, and his consort, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, riding to the theatre in the glass-enclosed Rolls Royce, royalty embodies the sovereignty which led to war and hardship....
Outside The Lines
Lefty press Reach & Teach has published Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon, a coloring book by Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz. The "tea, trains and tiaras for everyone!" message throughout is winningly lighthearted, even if such jokes as "Marriage is so gay" (illustrated with a wedding cake topped by two brides) are overcomplicated for the...
Underbelly
Mulgrew Magrady, a nearly homeless Vietnam vet, steps in to issue a warning when a drug dealer harasses his wheelchair-bound friend. Later, when the friend disappears and the dealer turns up dead, Magrady is deemed the prime suspect, hand-picked by Captain Stover of the LAPD. Magrady and Stover go way back to unresolved issues when they both served in Vietnam. With little else to do in a...
Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays after Yugoslavia
When this writer worked in Kosovo, attempts to interview people from the small community of Serbs that remained there after the European Union took over the city almost invariably failed. The Serbs were afraid to talk. Even a well-known journalist just clammed up when asked about the future of the Serb community in an independent Kosovo. So it is good, almost exactly three years after...
What Was the Hipster? Edited by Mark Greif, Kathleen Ross and Dayna Tortorici
On 11 April 2009, the youthful cultural journal n+1 held a symposium at the New School in New York. The topic that detained almost 200 people for more than two hours on an exceedingly rainy afternoon was "hipsters". Not the once fashionable cut of trousers, but that modern breed of achingly with-it urban trendy. The papers presented, transcripts of the discussions that followed,...
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