Staff Pick: Swetha Regunathan by Staff

4 July 2009 - Edited by Jeffrey Eugenides, My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead is a quiet, yet powerful collection of great love stories, from Chekhov to Munro. These are stories which search for and lose love.
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Staff Pick: Francis Reynolds by Staff

3 July 2009 - Tawada’s novel doesn’t hesitate to explore complex issues of identity and representation in an image-saturated world, but what has stayed with me the most is how her prose beautifully embodies her young character’s fragile and preoccupied state of mind.
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VIDEO: Glenn Beck wants many Americans to be killed in a terrorist attack (or his guest does) by JW

2 July 2009 - Is Beck's guest's call for a terrorist attack from Osama bin Laden at all like shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater?
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Staff Pick: Erica Wright by Staff

2 July 2009 - Hardwick defies genre in this lyric memoir/novel, championing the sentence above all else. NYRB Classics did us all a favor when they resurrected Sleepless Nights from the out-of-print graveyard in 2001.
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Norman Solomon: Abstract Quality Journalism for War by NS

1 July 2009 - No amount of newsprint or airtime can do more than scratch the human surface of war, especially when the media lenses are ground with ideology, nationalism, and economic convenience.
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Dahr Jamail: Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military by Guest Blogger

1 July 2009 - As the war in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, some people in the US military find their voices, dissent, and resist.
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Staff Pick: Kyle McAuley by Staff

1 July 2009 - What’s so thrilling about Cloud Atlas is how complete it feels not in spite but because of this narrative fragmentation. Instead of collapsing under the weight of its own invention, Cloud Atlas breathes and thrives like a collection of living voices.
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Work for Guernica by The Editors

30 June 2009 - Interns, assistants and ad sales rep needed...
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Staff Pick: Michelle Mounts by Staff

30 June 2009 - This wicked little volume reminds me of Poe’s The Tell-tale Heart and Gogol’s Diary of a Madman... Your discomfort as a reader is author John Hawkes’s triumph.
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Staff Pick: Michael Archer by Staff

29 June 2009 - What makes The Bubble worth watching is the way it exposes the complex lives and realities of Palestinians and Israelis and makes us pose questions about our own humanity.
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Dilip Hiro: The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran by Guest Blogger

29 June 2009 - Until the June 12th election, post-Shah Iran seemed to indicate that Islam and democracy could work in harmony. The upheaval has demonstrated that when strains between the two develop, democracy gets short shrift.
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Staff Pick: Adaeze Elechi by Staff

28 June 2009 - I recommend Asa's self-titled debut album because there are some things that are too stunning not to be shared.
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Staff Pick: David Doody by Staff

27 June 2009 - There's a lot of talk these days about vampires. Vampire movies, vampire books, vampire sex symbols. Well, you can keep your vampires. I’ll take werewolves over those bloodsuckers any day, thank you very much. And while we’re at it, I’ll take my story about werewolves written in verse, please.
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Staff Picks: Meakin Armstrong by Staff

27 June 2009 - If you thought the excerpt Sarverville Remains was good, you should probably try The New Valley.
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Roya Hakakian on Neda by JW

26 June 2009 - Every revolution needs icons and symbols -- an image that embodies a sense of universality of blight and at the same time innocence.
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Staff Pick: Katherine Dykstra by Staff

26 June 2009 - The short stories in Nothing Right all revolve around midwestern women in complicated relationships, both familial and romantic.
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Staff Pick: Joel Whitney by Staff

25 June 2009 - Synecdoche New York is a brilliant film that is sad, strange, illuminating, funny, epic, and totally original.
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Norman Solomon: Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran by NS

25 June 2009 - When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel. The leadership of GOP reaction and the leadership of Bolivarian revolution have bought into the convenient delusion that long-suffering Iranian people require assistance from the U.S. government to resist the regime in Tehran.
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Ex-detainees allege US, Afghan abuse (video) by Guest Blogger

24 June 2009 - According to the BBC, as the Obama administration takes action to shut down Guantanamo, a detention facility in Bagram (a US military base in Afghanistan) expands. Ex-detainees talk to the BBC about their time at Bagram.
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Staff Pick: Swetha Regunathan by Guest Blogger

24 June 2009 - Nothing comes easy in O’Neill’s complex novel—neither dreams nor lengthy jaunts through a New York populated by “others. ”
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Robert Reich: Why the Critics of a Public Option for Health Care Are Wrong by RR

24 June 2009 - Without a public option, the other parties that comprise America's non-system of health care -- private insurers, doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and medical suppliers -- have little or no incentive to supply high-quality care at a lower cost than they do now.
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Greg Grandin: Touring Empire's Ruins, From Detroit to the Amazon by Guest Blogger

23 June 2009 - To truly grasp how far America has fallen from the heights of its industrial grandeur -- and to understand how that grandeur led to stupendous acts of folly -- you should tour a set of ruins far from the Midwest rustbelt; they lie, in fact, deep (and nearly forgotten) in, of all places, the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
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Staff Pick: Jordan Hirsch by Guest Blogger

23 June 2009 - As the crisis in Iran has unfolded, one book has received numerous mentions across the blogosphere: Amir Taheri’s The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution.
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Joel Whitney: All About Iran by JW

22 June 2009 - A recap of some of the more in-depth, recent cultural coverage of Iran, and some other reasons Americans might be so fascinated by this story--besides our self-evident altruism.
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Abortion debate on 'Daily Show' (video) by Guest Blogger

22 June 2009 - Republican political commentator Mike Huckabee returns to The Daily Show to debate abortion.
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Staff Pick: Elizabeth Onusko by Guest Blogger

22 June 2009 - When poet Paul Guest, who was paralyzed in an accident as a child, writes of his condition in My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, he is simultaneously blunt, frenzied, grief-stricken, and humorous.
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David Doody: Media Matters: 'Some conservative media figures defend Obama's response to events in Iran' (Video) by DD

22 June 2009 - Media Matters for America has compiled a list of conservative commentators who have different opinions than some Republicans on President Obama's response to the events taking place in Iran.
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Zoya Phan: Thailand Forcing Karen Refugees Back to Burma by Guest Blogger

21 June 2009 - Up to 6,000 Karen have fled a new military offensive by the Burmese Army and its allies, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. Most have fled to Thailand. Now that there is less fighting in some places, Thai authorities apparently want the refugees to return to Burma.
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Watch: Waltz with Bashir Movie Trailer (Video) by DD

20 June 2009 - Watch the trailer for Waltz with Bashir, a graphic novel and animated documentary film by Ari Folman, that was featured on Guernica's blog in January.
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Robert Reich: Memo to the President: What You Must Do To Save Universal Health Care by RR

20 June 2009 - There are many things the President must do to make universal health care a reality, including putting all other agenda items on hold and actually fighting back against those who have chosen to take up this fight against him.
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Does Iranian citizen journalism report or distort? by JW

19 June 2009 - Maybe the US's credibility in places like Iran is cause enough for caution. A video plus some Guernica interviews about Iran.
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Robert Reich: Does the Obama Plan for Reforming Wall Street Measure Up? by RR

19 June 2009 - The White House's so-called reform does very little in the way of actual reform and will allow Wall Street to return to business as usual, which will, sooner than later, result in a repeat of the great meltdown of 2007 and 2008.
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Norman Solomon: Obama and Anti-War Democrats by NS

18 June 2009 - This is a crucial time for anti-war activists and other progressive advocates to get more serious about congressional politics. It's not enough to lobby for or against specific bills -- and it's not enough to just get involved at election time. Officeholders must learn that there will be campaign consequences.
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Charles Greene: Viva Bloomsday or Why Ulysses is the Greatest Novel Ever by Guest Blogger

16 June 2009 - As another Bloomsday has come, I feel that now is as good a time as any to make my case for why James Joyce's Ulysses is the greatest novel ever written. That's right, I did say greatest ever.
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Zoya Phan: My People Still on the Run in Eastern Burma by Guest Blogger

14 June 2009 - 6000 Karen have been forced to flee their homes as the Burmese Army continues targeting civilians.
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Wikileaks: World Health Organization Study Suppressed by the U.S. by Guest Blogger

14 June 2009 - In March 1995, the WHO and United Nations Interregional Institute of Crime Investigation announced the publication of the results of a global study on cocaine, which were suppressed due to the intervention of the representative of the United States.
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Robert Reich: The Healthcare War is Now Official by RR

12 June 2009 - The next weeks will show what Obama is made of -- whether he's willing and able to take on the most formidable lobbying coalition he has faced so far on an issue that will define his presidency.
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Michael T. Klare: It's Official -- The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over, Energy Department Changes Tune on Peak Oil by Guest Blogger

12 June 2009 - For the first time, the well-respected Energy Information Administration appears to be joining with those experts who have long argued that the era of cheap and plentiful oil is drawing to a close.
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Joel Whitney: New York Times as Quixote by JW

11 June 2009 - Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones found a new use for the New York Times and for newspapers: butt of our jokes.
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Robert Reich: The Great Debt Scare: Why Has It Returned? by RR

11 June 2009 - Why are the ostensibly liberal Center for American Progress and New York Times participating in the Debt Scare right now when the economy is still mired in the worst depression since the Great one, meaning the government has to create larger deficits if the economy is to get going again?
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Editors: Royal Dutch Shell Settles in Ken Saro-Wiwa Case by The Editors

9 June 2009 - Royal Dutch Shell has reached a settlement of $15.5 million in a case brought against the oil company by the relatives of anti-oil campaigners in Nigeria who were killed in 1995.
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Norman Solomon: Words and War by NS

8 June 2009 - Millions of words and factual data pour out of the Pentagon every day. Human truth is another matter, and there's plenty more media invisibility and erasure ahead for Afghan people as the Pentagon ramps up its war effort in their country.
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Robert Reich: How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do by RR

6 June 2009 - We must let our representatives and senators know we want a public option without conditions or triggers -- one that gives the public insurer bargaining leverage over drug companies, and pushes insurers to do what they've promised to do.
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Carole Joffe: The Legacy of George Tiller by Guest Blogger

6 June 2009 - While the response to George Tiller's death demands outrage, another response to this killing must be to demand that the mainstream medical community acknowledge the reality that there will always be some women who need abortions later on in pregnancy.
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David Doody: NEED, the Humanitarian Magazine: 'Screw the Man, Save the World' by DD

5 June 2009 - NEED magazine, a humanitarian magazine based in Minneapolis, searches for an answer to declining advertising revenue.
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Michael Archer: Can't Get Arrested by The Editors

5 June 2009 - In an interview for Guernica Magazine, published June 1, I asked Wuer Kaixi where he planned to be yesterday, the twentieth anniversary of the Tianamen Square massacre. Kaixi, who became known to world when cameras captured him scolding Chinese Premier Li Peng while wearing a hospital gown, was one of the most prominent student leaders of the uprising.
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Tom Engelhardt: Missing Word, Missing World: Graduating the Rest of Us, '09 by Guest Blogger

3 June 2009 - Some words, like "empire," have gone MIA in our American world, and words denied mean analyses not offered, things not grasped, surprise not registered, strangeness not taken in, all of which means that terrible mistakes are repeated and wounding ways of acting in the world never seriously reconsidered.
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Robert Reich: The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers by RR

2 June 2009 - As new technologies and more efficient machines continue to make many manufacturing jobs obsolete, why is the Obama Administration bailing out GM?
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David W. Orr: Learning to Live With Climate Change Will Not Be Enough by Guest Blogger

1 June 2009 - A leading environmentalist explains why drastically reducing carbon dioxide emissions now will be easier, cheaper, and more ethical than dealing with runaway climate destabilization later.
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John Sevigny: On John Divola's Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert by Guest Blogger

30 May 2009 - Few recent photographs speak as directly or eloquently about the relationship between civilization and nature as a relatively unknown black-and-white image from American photographer John Divola's series, "Dogs chasing my car in the desert."
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David Bollier: Throwing Good Money After Bad by Guest Blogger

29 May 2009 - Obama may be a masterful politician with the common touch, but where is the respect for ordinary citizens when his administration lets Wall Street rescue itself at our expense?
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William Astore: Selling Education, Manufacturing Technocrats, Torturing Souls: The Tyranny of Being Practical by Guest Blogger

28 May 2009 - Based on a decidedly non-bohemian life -- 20 years' service in the military and 10 years teaching at the college level -- I'm convinced that American education, even in the worst of times, even recognizing the desperate need of most college students to land jobs, is far too utilitarian, vocational, and narrow.
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Robert Reich: Sotomayor and the Republicans by RR

27 May 2009 - Will the Republicans see going negative on Sotomayor as their only chance at slowing Obamomentum, or do they simply lack the wisdom to opt for a more sensible strategy?
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Fred Pearce: Consumption Dwarfs Population As Main Environmental Threat by Guest Blogger

27 May 2009 - It's overconsumption, not population growth, that is the fundamental problem: By almost any measure, a small portion of the world's people -- those in the affluent, developed world -- use up most of the Earth's resources and produce most of its greenhouse gas emissions.
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Robert Reich: The Only Sure Way to Fund Universal Health Care by RR

24 May 2009 - The only way President Obama can make universal health care a reality will be to change the position he took during the presidential campaign.
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Robert Reich: A Modest Plan For Paying College Costs by RR

22 May 2009 - As he gets ready to head to a commencement at the University of California Berkeley Robert Reich offers a plan to pay back college tuition, linking repayment to a fixed percent of subsequent wages for a limited number of years, enabling all graduates to follow their dreams into whatever work they want.
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Norman Solomon: The March of Folly, Continued by NS

21 May 2009 - "The March of Folly," a book published 25 years ago explains, as well as anything written since, President Obama's policy towards Afghanistan--one based, as was the case in Vietnam, more on military strength than on political diplomacy or humanitarian efforts.
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Noam Chomsky: Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia by Guest Blogger

20 May 2009 - America has a long history of torture, dating back, in fact, to our earliest days as an "infant empire" as George Washington called it. Any surprise brought on by the torture memos released by the White House fails to recognize--or refuses to remember--this key factor of American history.
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Mia Farrow: Darfuri Voices Heard by Guest Blogger

19 May 2009 - Today, on the steps of one of our nations greatest buildings, in the company of some of our most powerful and respected leaders, Darfuri voices were heard.
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Philip C. Winslow: Cluster Weapons: On the Way Out by Guest Blogger

19 May 2009 - A movement to ban cluster weapons is gathering pace. It's possible that this time around the U.S., which has not used cluster munitions since 2003 in Iraq, will join, helping make the weapons and their explosive sub-munitions a military artifact.
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Watch: Chevron's Amazon Crude mess on 60 Minutes by JW

19 May 2009 - When Texaco left Ecuador in 1992, it left one huge environmental mess. The result has been a suit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorians against Chevron, which bought Texaco, for $27 billion. This is the biggest environmental lawsuit in history.
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Robert Reich: The Health Care Cave-In by RR

18 May 2009 - "Don't make the perfect the enemy of the better" is a favorite slogan in Washington because compromise is necessary to get anything done. But the way things are going with health care, a better admonition would be: "Don't give away the store."
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Jared Genser and Meghan Barron: The Trial of Aung San Suu Kyi by Guest Blogger

18 May 2009 - How will the world react to the injustice?
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Link Roundup by Guest Blogger

15 May 2009 - A poetry project goes on summer vacation, Obama changes his mind on military commissions, a Columbia Professor says there is no genocide in Darfur, and more.
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Watch: Rumsfeld confronted as war criminal for humanitarian deaths by JW

14 May 2009 - Is this a fair use of freedom of speech? Or just obnoxious? Is Donald a war criminal?
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Robert Reich: The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells by RR

13 May 2009 - Don't be confused by these alarms from the Social Security and Medicare trustees. Social Security is a tiny problem. Medicare is a terrible one, but the problem is not really Medicare; it's quickly rising health-care costs and a system that is inefficient and wasteful.
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WATCH: The tortured humor debate on Jon Stewart by JW

12 May 2009 - Stewart demonstrates the hypocrisy of right-wing torture apologias, criticizing Wanda Sykes
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Norman Solomon: A Progressive Challenge to Jane Harman by NS

12 May 2009 - Marcy Winograd's race to unseat Jane Harman in California's 36th District in 2010 reflects -- and is likely to help nurture -- a growing maturity among progressives around the country who are tired of merely complaining about centrist Democrats in Congress.
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Nick Turse: A Woman at the Edge: Tough Times, Domestic Violence, and Economic Abuse by Guest Blogger

11 May 2009 - As part of the "Tough Times" series he has been doing on America in meltdown mode for TomDispatch.com, Nick Turse ventured into the world of domestic abuse recently and discovered what tough times can really mean for some women.
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Best of the Web 2009 by The Editors

10 May 2009 - Guernica Fiction featured in Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2009.
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Robert Reich: What Will Happen to Banks that Fail the Stress Test, When You and I Own Wall Street by RR

7 May 2009 - The outcome of the "stress tests" will be that the banks needing extra capital will get it from the Treasury. The Treasury will simply swap debt for equity - turning what the banks owe the government into shares of stock in the banks. The question becomes, what type of shareholders should the public become?
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Norman Solomon: We Need a Green New Deal by NS

6 May 2009 - Seventy-five years after the start of the New Deal, and nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, the need for basic change on behalf of social justice and ecology is clear.
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Dilip Hiro: Defying the Economic Odds by Guest Blogger

5 May 2009 - In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, a new world order is emerging -- with its center gravitating towards China. As the world melts down, China grows.
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Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa at PEN by The Editors

4 May 2009 - On May 2, as part of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Guernica co-presented an event honoring Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and environmental activist hanged by a Nigerian military court for trumped up charges.
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David Bollier: Who Should Own Antiquities? by Guest Blogger

3 May 2009 - The clash of justifications for property rights in ancient works of art.
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Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa by The Editors

2 May 2009 - Guernica is proud to cosponsor this night of remembrance at PEN World Voices Festival on Saturday, May 2 with Ken Wiwa, Richard North Patterson, readings by Steve Connell and Sekou, and moderated by Okey Ndibe.
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Robert Reich: The Auto Bailout Is Going Off the Road by RR

1 May 2009 - There is no reason taxpayers should pay billions more to GM when they are laying off workers. The purpose of any auto bailout is to help American auto workers keep their jobs, not save an auto industry that's a tiny fragment of what it was before.
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Francis Reynolds: An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell (Part 2) by Guest Blogger

30 April 2009 - The University of Chicago professor and leading image theorist on stereotypes, the presidential campaign, and the legacy of the "war on terror."
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Francis Reynolds: An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell by Guest Blogger

29 April 2009 - The University of Chicago professor and leading image theorist on stereotypes, the presidential campaign, and the legacy of the "war on terror."
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Philip C. Winslow: Cultural Cross-Currents in the West Bank by Guest Blogger

28 April 2009 - Attempts at apolitical cultural events have been thwarted by deep-rooted and distinctly anti-modern undercurrents in the town of Jenin.
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Robert Reich: How Obama Can Succeed in the Next Hundred Days and Beyond by RR

26 April 2009 - So far Obama has found a workable balance, requiring increasingly fancy footwork, and some rebalancing will be needed. The central question for the next 100 days is how deftly he finds new footing.
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Tom Engelhardt: Killing Civilians by Guest Blogger

24 April 2009 - How safe do you actually want to be?
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Norman Solomon: Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster by NS

23 April 2009 - Rejecting Obama iconography and demonology is necessary for a healthy progressive movement. We won't get far by trying to leapfrog the actual political conditions of the country. Our task is to change them.
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Robert Reich: Where Government Spending Should be Trimmed -- And Why It's Necessary to Fast-Track Universal Health Care by RR

20 April 2009 - Republicans seem hell bent on becoming a tiny, whacky minority. Obama should stop trying to court them and fast-track health care.
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Jan Hively: Sharing the Work, Spreading the Wealth by Guest Blogger

18 April 2009 - How the economic stimulus plan could open the way for a commons-based society.
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Letter to the Editors: A Response to Joel Peckham's essay 'Guided by Voices' by The Editors

17 April 2009 - Zionism was not simply a response to worldwide anti-Semitism. The earliest Zionists were caught up in the colonialist and nationalist ideology of their day.
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David Bollier: Dozens of Roads Going Private by Guest Blogger

16 April 2009 - U.S. PIRG report documents the sell-off of public highways and construction of private toll roads.
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Robert Reich: We Need More Stimulus, Not More Bailout by RR

14 April 2009 - Tim Geithner believes that the economy will be rescued when banks lend again, but most people are already carrying too much debt and don't want to borrow more money. As he prepares to return to Congress for what will be, if he even gets it, the last money Congress will give the administration, he needs to focus on stimulus rather than bailout.
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Roane Carey: Don't Flash the Yellow Light by Guest Blogger

13 April 2009 - Mixed messages from Washington could lead to catastrophe in Iran.
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Robert Reich: Why We're Not at the Beginning of the End, and Probably Not Even At the End of the Beginning by RR

11 April 2009 - President Obama has begun urging Americans to refinance their homes so they can save money and start spending again, and the nation's biggest banks are claiming their operations are profitable this year. But, this is only because of the flood of money the Fed put into the economy, not because we've reached the beginning of the end.
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Philip C. Winslow: War Crimes on Trial in Sierra Leone by Guest Blogger

10 April 2009 - A journalist and foreign correspondent reflects on his time spent in Sierra Leone as, this week, three of that country's war criminals were sentenced to long prison terms for multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Norman Solomon: Getting a Death Grip on Memory by NS

9 April 2009 - A recent New York Times article told of research being done on the possibility of erasing certain memories. While the research scientists are just scratching the surface in this field, American media outlets have been at it for a long time.
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Tom Engelhardt: Terminator Planet: Launching the Drone Wars by TE

8 April 2009 - As you sit in that movie theater in May watching the latest installment in the Terminator series, actual unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), pilotless surveillance and assassination drones armed with Hellfire missiles, will be patrolling our expanding global battlefields, hunting down human beings.
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Readers respond to Aiding is Abetting: An interview with Dambisa Moyo by The Editors

7 April 2009 - Democracy has almost always preceded the creation of a large middle class.
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Choruss: A Correction by The Editors

7 April 2009 - We the editors regret any implication, in our blog that ran last Wednesday, that Choruss hoped to break or circumvent the law.
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Robert Reich: Why You Should Work for a Hedge Fund by RR

7 April 2009 - The hedge fund managers who raked in billions last year wouldn't have done nearly as well had taxpayers not bailed out Wall Street to begin with. Now, these are exactly the sort of investors Tim Geithner is trying to lure in to buy troubled assets from banks, with an extraordinary offer financed by you and me and other taxpayers.
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Norman Solomon: Democrats and War Escalation by NS

6 April 2009 - Obama's insistence on increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan will fracture his base inside the Democratic Party. If he insists on leading a party of war, there will be those within the party who organize to transform it into the party for peace.
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Guernica PotPourri by Guest Blogger

5 April 2009 - A smattering of news from Guernica's anonymous newshound.
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Letters: A Response to Guernica's Interview With Dambisa Moyo by Guest Blogger

4 April 2009 - At Guernica we love hearing what you, the reader, think about the essays, interviews, stories, and poetry we publish. Here, Frank Williams, of Industries of Africa, responds to our recent interview with African author and economist Dambisa Moyo.
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Robert Reich: It's a Depression by RR

3 April 2009 - This is still not the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it is a Depression. And the only way out is government spending on a very large scale. We should stop worrying about Wall Street. Worry about American workers. Use money to build up Main Street, and the future capacities of our workfo
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