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About 75 years ago, author James Agee witnessed the arrival of cinema as an art form

In Books, The Scruffy Citizen by Jack NeelyDecember 12, 2017leave a COMMENT

The Works of James Agee, Vol 5 Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts edited by Charles Maland Last summer, a few weeks before the Mercury closed as a weekly …

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Q&A: Whistle-blower and Tarbell founder Wendell Potter

In Books, Q&As by Jack NeelyJuly 19, 2017leave a COMMENT

Wendell Potter’s name has a sharp resonance in Washington. For more than 20 years he was an executive in public relations for Humana and CIGNA, until he went public, first …

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Q&A: Mary Campbell, Author of ‘Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image’

In Books by Stuart N. BrotmanDecember 7, 2016leave a COMMENT

With Mitt Romney, The Book of Mormon on Broadway, and the familiar sight of wholesome young men with name tags knocking politely on front doors, the Latter-day Saints have come …

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On Its 20th Anniversary, David Madden’s ‘Sharpshooter’ Remains an Essential Civil War Novel

In Books by Guest ContributorNovember 16, 2016leave a COMMENT

by Ryan McCormack The American Civil War, perhaps more than any other war fought by Americans, is a writer’s war. Hundreds of books have been published on the conflict since …

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Andrew Scott Cooper Traces the Events Leading Up to Iran’s 1979 Revolution in ‘The Fall of Heaven’

In Books by J. BurrowsNovember 3, 2016leave a COMMENT

Early in The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran (Henry Holt and Co.), Andrew Scott Cooper sums up the suspicions that informed Iranian culture …

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