Culture

Our Imperfect Unions

David Moberg

P.O.V.: A Home For Homeless Films

Patricia Aufderheide

Atheism’s Unholy Trinity

Jarrett Dapier

Errol Morris’ Myopia

Michael Atkinson

Adbusters’ Ads Busted

James H. Ewert Jr.

The Next Great Awakening

Kim Bobo

Remembering Mazzocchi

David Moberg

Portrait of the Awkward Artist

Achy Obejas

Save the Dramatic Chipmunk

Patricia Aufderheide

The Revolution Will Not Be Designed

As we look beyond housing solutions to urban poverty, good design is enjoying a second coming as the cure for what ails us

Alix Rule

Bad Cop, Badder Cop in Brazil

Does the new shoot-'em-up film Tropa de Elite bring out the country's inner fascist?

Holmes Wilson

Rocking Lolita in Tehran

Iran's underground music scene has more followers than ever, largely because Iranian musicians are performing on a new stage: the Internet

Colin Meyn

King of the Crop

Two years ago the federal government spent $9.4 billion to promote corn production, driving small farmers off their lands in Mexico, because they were unable to compete with U.S. imports

Ben Terrall

Youth Gone Wild

Jared Cohen's book Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels among the Youth of the Middle East seeks to understand an area of the world where hatred for his country and religion run rampant

Brent White

R.I.P. LiP

Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition--complete with illustrations, a "theft ethics" quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices

Erin Polgreen

Prairie Style Romance

Though Nancy Horan takes great liberty in imagining intimate scenes between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney--of which there is no evidence--Loving Frank ultimately rests on historical record

Achy Obejas

Suffering Secondary Trauma

Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind explores the complexity of Chang's psychology as it formed around the demands of her profession and her personal struggles stemming from her writing about The Rape of Nanking

Silja J.A. Talvi

Survival of the Adapted

The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory takes the theory of evolution--"survival of the fittest," a phrase that appeared only in a later printing of Charles Darwin's classic text--and, in alternating chapters, juxtaposes the relationship between Darwin and fellow biologist Alfred Russel Wallace with Fries' curiosity about his own adaptations to a world unprepared for his body and his means of motion

Achy Obejas