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"Hey Diego, wanna hear a secret...?" It's been an exciting year here in wmtc- Joy of Sox -land: me working full-time in my new...

Despite the increased attention given to graphic novels in recent years, many readers don't consider graphic novels when thinking about ...

Katha Pollitt's new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights , is a powerful gust of fresh, clean air that blows away the toxic stench of t...

Two years ago, wmtc's annual "i hate christmas" post declared: " i hate christmas is slightly less hateful this year ...

Corey Glass, war resister from Canada by way of Indiana, speaks out from his travels in Europe in the current issue of  NOW . I'm not go...

Lost Memory of Skin , Russell Banks' 2011 novel, begins with an impossible paradox. A group of men are living in an encampment under a h...

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Terrible news for the music world this week, and for the world of unabashed, unrepentant, hard partying rock-and-roll. I have loved Bobby Ke...

This Wednesday, December 10, is Human Rights Day . The date was chosen to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rig...

Two years ago, fast-food workers in New York City held a one-day strike. In that historic action, the result of months and even years of org...

Revolutionary thought of the day: All of this is why any attempt to rise to the climate challenge will be fruitless unless it is understood ...

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate , by Naomi Klein, is incredibly difficult to write about. I've been putting sticky n...

I don't know when people starting calling the day after US Thanksgiving "Black Friday," but the expression has become synonymo...

Swamplandia!  caught me by surprise. At first, Karen Russell's debut novel seemed like a quirky family story, a strange and somewhat sad...

The revelations about Jian Ghomeshi hit my Facebook feed in waves. First many friends were shocked by CBC's announcement that they were ...

For the past few years, I have participated in Write For Rights, Amnesty International's annual write-a-thon for human rights - actually...

The fight for justice for US war resisters took a major step forward yesterday, with a ruling strongly in favour of war resister André Sheph...

Robert Fisk, in The Independent : But as the years passed, old Bill Fisk became very ruminative about the Great War. He learned that Haig h...

Last week I attended " R.A. in a Day ," an annual one-day mini-conference on readers' advisory - that is, finding books for re...

This week, Columbia Records released The Basement Tapes Complete , six CDs of music made by Bob Dylan and The Band at the house they lived i...