Note: This is the first part of a two-part article. The second half will appear in the February 2009 issue of the GC Advocate. I I will begin with a story that I hope casts some light on why and how the US occupation of Afghanistan is failing. I was with my friend and interpreter Ajmal...
Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer. 2666. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 898 pages. With the translation into English and publication of Roberto Bolaño’s final work and masterpiece, the sprawling antinovel 2666, Anglophone readers can now confirm his status as one of the...
William Ayers et al. City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row. New York: New Press, 2008. 384 pages. Before his radical history became fodder for conservative sound-bites in the presidential election, William Ayers was a writer on education reform and professor at the...
Eric Weisbard. Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 323 pages. Henry Rollins, most notably of the hardcore punk band Black Flag, once said, “I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like...
Grant, Colin. Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 544 pages. Rolinson, Mary G. Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007....
