In Review: Books, Music, and Film

Books, Music, and Film

YES! Film Picks: Crude, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Dirt

posted Feb 11, 2010

Reviews of our favorite films for the spring 2010.

The Food of a Younger Land

by Laura Kaliebe

posted Dec 15, 2009

Author Mark Kurlansky unearths a Depression-era project to document the country’s food traditions.

Trauma Stewardship

by Rinku Sen

posted Dec 15, 2009

ColorLines' Rinku Sen finds this guide useful for "anyone who stays close to the ground as they help to change that landscape".

Guardians of the Revolution

by John Feffer

posted Dec 15, 2009

Iran and the United States do not have to remain eternal enemies. So argues Ray Takeyh, an Iranian-born scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, in his useful and engaging new book.

In Review :: YES! Music Picks

posted Nov 10, 2009

Musical inspiration while putting out the Winter 2010 issue: Steve Earle, Mari Boine, and Richard Shindell.

In Review :: YES! Film Picks

posted Nov 10, 2009

Our favorite films this season include "The YES! Men Fix the World," "Homo Toxicus," and "Fresh."

Nowtopia

by Laura Kaliebe

posted Sep 18, 2009

Review of Chris Carlsson's Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future—Today!

When the Prisoners Ran Walpole

by Carol Estes

posted Sep 18, 2009

Carol Estes reviews Jamie Bissonette's account of a true story in the movement for prison abolition

The Poor as Customers?

posted Sep 18, 2009

John Harvey reviews Michael Edwards' Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philantrocapitalism

In Review :: YES! Picks :: Film

posted Aug 14, 2009

Our favorite films for the fall '09: Fierce Light, The Greening of Southie, and What is the Economy for, Anyway?

In Review :: YES! Picks - Music

posted Aug 14, 2009

Musical inspiration while putting out the fall '09 issue.

In Review :: Justicia Now

by Lisa Gale Garrigues

posted May 07, 2009

Lisa Garrigues reviews this documentary about Ecuador’s oil wars.

In Review :: Tree Intimacy

by Brooke Jarvis

posted May 07, 2009

Brooke Jarvis reviews Nalini Nadkarni’s Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connection to Trees.

In Review :: Rules for Online Radicals

by James Trimarco

posted May 07, 2009

James Trimarco reviews Markos Moulitsas Zúniga’s Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era.

In Review :: Homemade Revolution

by Erik Knutzen

posted May 07, 2009

A hand-cranked and pedal-powered guide to shrinking your home electricity use.