A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
Fake news, disinformation, propaganda, and other elements of a culture that denies reality are corroding our society. These books show a possible road out of this situation.
"Even though I've been living in this country for twenty-two years and this is for all intents and purposes my home – it's where I intend to live the rest of my life – elsewhere is this notion that one or two pieces are missing," says Abdelmahmoud.
The New York Times feature writer shows in carefully argued detail that the Sandy Hook hoaxers exist in a direct line with QAnon and the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The author says in a statement that she has “full confidence” in the work that went into the book.
“I never thought Ukrainians anywhere would welcome Russian occupation,” says Marples.
Edgar Smith, the convicted murderer of a fifteen-year-old girl, found some powerful advocates in conservative writer William F. Buckley, Jr., and Alfred A. Knopf editor Sophie Wilkins.
The history of censorship is inextricable from the history of power and in a changing world, it behooves us to consider how to balance speech and security.
The new book, which proposes a Jewish notary as the person responsible for giving up the Franks’ hiding place, has come under fire by historians who question its assertions.
In its examination of the roots of American horror cinema, this single-volume survey is valuable, though it lacks follow-through in its second half.
An outcropping of French theory, postmodernism is most evident in its connection to neoliberalism and our overtly consumerist society.