Philosophers and scientists have long proposed theories in which duality is the propelling force of movement and progress - the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's dialectic offered a process...
Gregory Jusdanis, Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature. Stanford UP, 2010. Is literature dead or dying? What comes after the book? Are people still interested in stories? These are just some...
ABC's rocky pilot episode of Body of Proof recently highlighted an ongoing problem television dramas seem to struggle with: the accurate depiction of work/life balance for women. As women in society...
Dabbling in different genres is much the same as experimenting with a wild cocktail of hard drugs; it may have some electric highs but the comedown isn’t going to be pretty. After unleashing Sucker...
Shock! Horror! The Truth Is Revealed! Rich business people pay money to politicians in exchange for favourable decisions and politicians comply. Headline news it ain’t. If you live in Ireland...
As far as careers go, a girl couldn’t wish for a better one than Phyllis Schlafly. Much sought-after public speaker; respected author, published many times over; powerful activist, who has changed...
If there is one thing that is obvious from Karen Joy Fowler’s work to date, it is that she likes books. The Jane Austen Book Club, for which she is chiefly known (it spent quite some time on the...
Last week's Grey's Anatomy ended with a cliffhanger this viewer predicted at the very moment we saw Callie and Arizona in a car; crunching noises and the show's classic fade to white, warning that...
Every sperm is sacred, goes the old Monty Python song, but it might well be the new motto of the Republican Party in 2011. Since their victory in 2010 midterms, Republican politicians (with a few...
Susan Stryker, Transgender History, Seal Press, 2008. Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, eds. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, 2010. The feminist press Seal has carved out a...
