What All the Fuzz is About: This Week in Books
These five new literary products will add more value to your life than whatever Silicon Valley has in store for you today.
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The Vegas Dilemma: So Many Notable New Books This Week
These six new books hitting the shelves today are actual fire.
Moon and the Mars and A Slow Fire Burning: This Week in Books
This week offers a solid lineup of stimulating new books, including Kia Corthron's Moon and the Mars.
Pumpkin Spice and Kat Chow: Taking in Tuesday’s New Books
Today’s new books—and other notable links. Mentioned: Kat Chow, Peter Heller, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Matt Bell, Nick Antosca, Ursula K. Le Guin.
An Afghan Perspective: The West Chose Wrong Problems to Solve, Wrong Methods to Solve Them
"The West set out to solve a series of problems in Afghanistan. The West is a very problem-solving culture. And one of the problems of Afghanistan is that it doesn't lend itself readily to being sorted out on the West's terms."
Programming Note: We’re Back
21 years have passed since we published our first bunch of stories on identitytheory.com. One year has passed since we published our last story. That changes today.
Black Life Matters: Killer of Sheep Review
Her body language, the deep darkness, the shot, the music, says it all: what are we supposed to be doing in here?
Blog Relaunch + Vegas Shooting Thoughts
My mind just keeps thinking about it. "Don't go there. Mass murder. Over there. Mass murder."
Visit Identity Theory at Lit Crawl San Francisco
We're throwing an Identity Theory reading-party at the San Francisco Lit Crawl on October 14th.
Dunkirk: Depth to the Games
The film is a study in learning from old masters as much as it is in bringing an old story to a new audience.