“Punching Out”: The last days of a Detroit auto plant
A new book chronicles the dismantling of a hulking factory -- and the workers it leaves behind
Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011 1:30 AM UTCEntertainment Auto Industry, Great Recession
Scott McLemee
Entertainment Auto Industry, Great Recession
How Abraham Lincoln really viewed slavery
A new history explores the complex relationship between the president and the institution he abolished
Saturday, Jan 1, 2011 2:01 PM UTC 40Entertainment History, Nonfiction, Books
The Best Of Crank!
Scott McLemee reviews 'The Best of Crank!' by Bryan Cholfin.
Wednesday, Oct 21, 1998 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
I Married A Communist
Scott McLemee reviews 'I Married a Communist' by Philip Roth
Tuesday, Sep 29, 1998 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Philip Roth, Books
Master of allusion
When a philosopher creates a video game about Vegas, the payoff is fascinating but elusive.
Tuesday, Aug 18, 1998 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Video Games, Business
New JFK death film
The digitized Zapruder film cannot dispel lingering questions about JFK's assassination.
Tuesday, Aug 4, 1998 7:00 PM UTCNews
Cocaine Nights
Scott McLemee reviews 'Cocaine Nights' by J.G. Ballard.
Monday, Jun 22, 1998 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
Rethinking Jonestown
A new academic movement argues that cults fulfill needs not met by our soulless consumer society.
Wednesday, Jun 17, 1998 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
Errata
Scott McLemee reviews "Errata: An Examined Life' by George Steiner
Wednesday, Mar 18, 1998 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
Those Dirty Rotten Taxes
Scott McLemee reviews 'Those Dirty Rotten Taxes' by Charles Adams
Tuesday, Mar 3, 1998 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
Fragments
Scott McLemee reviews 'Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1991-1995' by Jean Baudrillard
Monday, Dec 1, 1997 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
The man who took sex out of the closet
Alfred Kinsey outed America's sexual secrets -- while keeping a few of his own.
Wednesday, Nov 5, 1997 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Sex, LGBT, Love and Sex, Books
Weird morning in America
A review of Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon"
Friday, Apr 25, 1997 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Thomas Pynchon
Media Circus: Sect Appeal
An ugly family feud cleaves a Trotskyist publishing empire in twain.
Thursday, Feb 6, 1997 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment
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