Cultural Criticism


Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
The Society of the Spectacle
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Regarding the Pain of Others
Between the World and Me
Orientalism
Bad Feminist
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Joshua took another small sip from his wine glass as his gaze and his thoughts drifted away from the flat-screen television mounted above the marbled fireplace to ponder a roomful of sports jackets and pantsuits and in some cases cocktail dresses but only of neutral tones and minimal detailing if for no other reason than to avoid becoming the subject of the next petty scandal that would nevertheless send shockwaves through their haughty and insular world. The way they stood in their intimate clu ...more
Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

Rehan Khan
My type of politics leads to a clash of religions, a clash of cultures and a clash of races. Your type of politics unifies under an imperial cause. In the end I will win, because dividing and conquering is far easier than unifying the hearts of men.
Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

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