Books of The Times: Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left
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In his incendiary new book, Dinesh DâSouza argues that the American left is allied to the Islamic radical movement.
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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One sign Election 2004 is over: At Barnes &amp; Noble bookstores, tables piled with current-events books have been dismantled, giving way to holiday gift-book displays. In a year teeming with books from the left and the right, only a "non-political" political book remains a top seller -America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, a sendup of a high school civics textbook.
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Two important new books help understand why Venezuela's leftist president is considered both a national hero  and a flawed demagogue
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A review of the Jonathan Saunders, Tuleh, Preen Ohne Titel, Diane Von Furstenberg and Rodnik Fall 2008 collections.
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As the holiday season approaches, book lists fill the entertainment sections of newspapers: fiction and non-fiction, prize winners of all sorts, the ubiquitous coffee-table large-format illustrated tomes, and children's literature. For me, it's always a tempting feast. It's an opportunity to expand my personal library or find a gift for someone special.
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A business course on cutthroat capitalism disguised as a slacker comedy: Thatâs the kindest way to describe Michael Lehmannâs âFlakes.â
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"Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture" is not your typical business book. Instead, it's a wide-ranging work of social criticism peppered with examples from the movies and rock music. The authors focus more on the psychology of consumers than the inner workings of the boardroom, which is not surprising, considering that both come from backgrounds in philosophy. Each ...
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The author of 'Musicophilia' and 'Awakenings' chats about what he's reading, watching, and listening to.
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Comment is free: Tristram Hunt: The chasm between rich and poor seen in London today resembles the Manchester that Engels described in the 1840s.
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.
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Political satirist Jon Stewart's  mock look at a political science college textbook "America (the  Book), a Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction," was named on  Sunday the book of the year by Publishers Weekly, the trade  publication of the book industry.
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A school text book for Arab children in Israel has sparked an outcry among rightist Jews by including a reference for the first time to the Palestinian view of the Jewish state's founding as a "catastrophe".
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"An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England" (Algonquin, 320 pages. $24.95), by Brock Clarke: America lives in the age of the memoir and the confessional. It's the defining literary legacy of our time, much as insanely long novels marked the Victorian Age.
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A taste of the latest in food memoirs, a thriving literary genre
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TIME.comix on 'The 9/11 Report' and 'The Pride of Baghdad'