Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon
Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With the Spoon review, short version: If you have children, know children, or were ever a child yourself, you need this new coloring book by Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz. Long version: As a child of the Free to Be...You and Me seventies, dressed androgynously by a pair of liberal-minded parents, I never dreamed that I would have difficulty...
Dan Clowes' Mister Wonderful
Daniel Clowes' comic books are often about misfits. Ghost World was about a couple of teenage girl outcasts. Pussey was about an arrogant, self-deceiving cartoonist. The more recent Wilson (reviewed here) was about a lonely, unemployed, self-loathing, passive-aggressive sad-sack who goes through life making himself and the people around him miserable. There's not a lot of action...
Living In Insecure Times
Writing about Hollywood disaster movies, Fredric Jameson once quipped that our culture finds it easier to imagine the end of life on Earth than to conceive of a transformation of the capitalist social relations that are pushing us inexorably towards catastrophe. Jameson's quip unfortunately grows more prescient by the day. Liberal democratic political systems the world over seem utterly...
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
A book review of Sepp Holzer's Permaculture book, 'A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening.' I have to say that I was very eager to obtain a copy of Sepp Holzer's book which I advanced ordered early in January of this year. Our Permaculture class studied the masters on the subject such as Bill Mollison, David Holmgren,...
Collecting Counter-Narratives
If the North American left is good at anything, it’s being discontented. And if the collapse of the left as an effective political force over recent decades has amplified our discontent, it’s also forced some radical thinkers to dig in and do the hard work of analyzing society. This section of the left is mainly (though not exclusively) based in academia and grounded in a broad...
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