The Big Both Ways

From its Chandleresque title right through its knockout climax, John Straley’s Depression-era noir provides hot and heavy, morally complicated thrills as it tosses a male drifter and female murderer together on a bumpy ride across the American Northwest.

Soft on Capitalism?

March 8: “The development of this crony capitalism came at the expense of our constitutional principles, that we are a nation governed by laws and not men.”  

Poetry Needed

March 7: “Corporate America now desperately needs the powers associated with the poetic imagination not only to see its way through the present whirligig of change, but also, because poetry asks for accountability…”