How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
Part history, part cultural commentary, part political analysis, and part diehard sports fan evangelism, How Soccer Explains the World is an interesting and tho...
Author: Kevin Holtsberry
I work in communications and public affairs. I try to squeeze in as much reading as I can while still spending time with my wife and two kids (and cheering on the Pittsburgh Steelers and Michigan Wolverines during football season).
Thought for the day: Literature
Here literature’s weakness – that, unlike philosophy, it is unsystematic – becomes its great strength. It draws on all our ways of knowing at ...
Why Average Joe Ain't Reading
I didn’t comment on the recent NEA report on American reading levels because I really didn’t feel I had anything to add. But CAFF at Tingle Alley an...
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
A look back at the classic hard boiled detective story that launched a hundred more.
Inside The Kingdom by Carmen Bin Ladin
What do you do when your last name moves from famous to infamous on a scale hard to imagine? You write a book; in a media driven age one must fight fire with fi...
Another Cultural Concurrence Index
Bobby Allison-Gallimore over at the Rattler has posted his own version of the Teachout Cultural Concurrence Index. In for a penny in for a pound I say, so I wen...