Family Values

by | Mar 4, 2014 | Book Reviews

March 4: “Children are no longer economic assets, so the only way to balance the books is to assume they are future assets…”  

The Corpse Exhibition

by | Mar 3, 2014 | Book Reviews

Hassan Blasim offers his first-hand account of contemporary Iraq, in surreal short stories alive with awe, empathy, and a native son’s vantage point.

Scapedogs

by | Mar 3, 2014 | Book Reviews

  “[Naples, Italy] is trying to stake out a reputation as a civic innovator by positioning Naples at the cutting edge of dog-waste eradication … The idea is that every dog in the city will be given a blood test for DNA profiling in order to create a...

Starting Time

by | Mar 3, 2014 | Book Reviews

March 3: “[W]e are proposing to inform people — to inform many people who would not otherwise be informed…”