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Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: 'ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone'
By TERRY GREENE STERLING
Editor's Note: As a staff writer for Phoenix New Times, award-winning journalist Terry Greene Sterling reported for years on the political brawls... More >>
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By TED B. KISSELL
Genius (Still) At WorkReuben Martinez of the relocated Librería Martinez offers his top 10 summer readsThe economic crisis has slammed us... More >>
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Bad FaithWilliam Lobdell’s Losing My Religion describes how Orange County Christianity lost its most ardent journalistic supporterConsider... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Graphic ContentComics best kept from the kidsDon’t tell my parents, but I discovered adult comics when I was still a kid. It was the tail... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Keeping SecretsA psychoanalyst represses a murder in Hanif Kureishi’s Something to Tell YouThose who believe that shrinks are as neurotic... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Cartoon NoirAbandoned Cars considers the wreck of the American dreamNoir, be it film or fiction, is as American as street racing and serial... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Reality ShowIn Natsuo Kirino’s new novel, a murder forces four Japanese students to get real MTV’s long-running reality show The... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Time PieceThe future, now past, looks like the present in the newest Philip K. Dick anthology The problem with fiction set in the future is... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
You, Too, Can Be Creative!Cartoonist Lynda Barry’s how-to makes being an artist easy Why is it that most classes in creativity stifle the... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
All-American Boy
Sonny Bravo gets laid, learns to drive a stick and confronts racism in The Flowers
Using a 15-or-so-year-old Mexican-American kid... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Bedfellows
Sex seduces science in Mary Roach's Bonk
Sex and science have a natural affinity. After all, doesn't just about everything we learn... More >>
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Lisa Alvarez's Summer Reading List
Cowboy gunplay, High Sierra poetry, the Inland Empire and more!
By day, Lisa Alvarez is the chairwoman of the... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Blowin' Balloons
Bass Cathedral bubbles with jazz
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "jazz age" aside, the relationship between America's "indigenous"... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Mock the Vote
Convicted Republican operative tells how to manipulate the electorate
We've always given Orange County Republicans credit for... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Sympathy for the Devils
The Stones, filmmaker Kenneth Anger and Charles Manson come together in Sway
The 1960s were all about peace and... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
You Don't Need a Weatherman . . .
Students for a Democratic Society chronicles the winds of change in the 1960s
The 1960s were all about... More >>
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By DAVE BARTON
Ouch!
New book on torture devices brings the pain
Jesus Christ and The Hunchback of Notre Dame were my gateway to a fascination with torture.
It... More >>
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By BILL KOHLHAASE
Gonzo Goes On
. . . And on and on and on
Three years ago, Hunter S. Thompson put a bullet in the back of his throat and through his brain... More >>
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Do Me takes a lingering look at sex and love
By BILL KOHLHAASE
I've always wondered: If love is blind, why is sex so much better with one's eyes open? There's an essay in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love From... More >>
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Cartoonist Joe Sacco's graphic depiction of Palestine brings the suffering to life
By BILL KOHLHAASE
It's unclear what President George W. Bush knew of Palestinian life when he visited the occupied city of Ramallah on the West Bank a few weeks... More >>
