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April 30, 2013

Razing Hell

April 30, 2013/ Steve Danziger

In a new memoir packed with garbled madness, we get a funhouse-mirror autobiography of the legendary Richard Hell, who did more than anybody to invent punk rock and only haphazardly survived to tell the tale

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Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, May 2013, Steve Danziger
April 30, 2013

No Kaddish For Old Men

April 30, 2013/ Maria Rybakova

Does love create an unbridgeable distance between two souls? Marco Roth's searching memoir of his microbiologist father alternates between longing and numbness in its search for what, if anything, binds fathers and sons

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April 30, 2013/ Maria Rybakova/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, May 2013
April 30, 2013

Infinite Reflection

April 30, 2013/ Colleen Shea

Born of ancient Buddhist philosophy into the fragments of the modern world, Yoko Ogawa's Revenge asks essential questions about what it means to be human.

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April 30, 2013/ Colleen Shea/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, Colleen Shea, fiction, literary criticism, May 2013
April 30, 2013

Rending the Familiar

April 30, 2013/ Anthony Stewart

Shane Book’s evocative collection Ceiling of Sticks shows us our familiar world in ways that might surprise even the most jaded reader into optimism about poetry.

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April 30, 2013/ Anthony Stewart/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Book Review, literary criticism, May 2013, Poetry, Poetry Review
April 30, 2013

Failing Gracelessly

April 30, 2013/ Greg Waldmann

The authors have invaluable sources in America's 'deep state' of surveillance and counter-terrorism, but how much secrecy does security justify? And what happened to moral accountability?

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April 30, 2013/ Greg Waldmann/
Politics & History
Book Review, george w bush, greg waldmann, May 2013, Vietnam
April 30, 2013

from Soft Perimeter

April 30, 2013/ Michael Ives

a poem

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April 30, 2013/ Michael Ives/
Poetry
May 2013, Poetry
April 30, 2013

“A Crystal Stranger Taking Off Their Mask”

April 30, 2013/ Jonathan Aprea

Constructing a "walrus itself" is a difficult thing to do - but it's just one of the transubstantiations Ben Mirov attempts in his latest collection of poems

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April 30, 2013/ Jonathan Aprea/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
literary criticism, May 2013, Poetry, Poetry Review
April 30, 2013

Sleazy Inner Tubes

April 30, 2013/ Steve Danziger

Artist Laura Carton does not surf pornography for the usual reasons, By digitally removing the 'actors' from their backgrounds, she creates strangely suggestive landscapes. In this interview she addresses both her process and her plan.

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Interview, May 2013, photography, Steve Danziger
April 30, 2013

The Annotated Mix-Tape, #24

April 30, 2013/ Joshua Harmon

In this latest installment of his Mix Tape series, our writer discovers a new world of digital lore for young music fans and contrasts it with his analogue lessons of yore

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Arts & Life
May 2013, music
April 30, 2013

It’s a Mystery: “Half of the future is buried in the past”

April 30, 2013/ Irma Heldman

Two seductive thrillers: one starring a fearless female cop, the other a boatload of washed-up MI5 spies.

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Features
Book Review, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, May 2013
April 30, 2013

Ad Infinitum

April 30, 2013/ Phillip A. Lobo

A radio voice crackles "Hallelujah," and Booker DeWitt's violent, surreal steampunk adventures in Columbia begin again in the latest BioShock chapter, BioShock Infinite

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Arts & Life
May 2013, Phillip A- Lobo, video games
April 30, 2013

May 2013 Issue

April 30, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

"www.deepintrusion.com, 2004" by Laura Cartonfrom Stripped, 2010

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fine art, May 2013, photography, Steve Danziger
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