Culture
For Love or Money?
by Chelsea Leone, SUNY Cortland, June 5, 2008
By day, Casey Han attempts to lead the life of Wonder Woman by sporting a pair of silver bangles on her wrist. By night, she hauls all her designer items in a garbage bag wondering where she will spend
LIVE THROUGH THIS
by Lorraine Berry, , June 5, 2008
Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev Seven Stories Press (2008) In one of the first published feminist novels, The Awakening, Edna, the heroine of the story, in an act that we are supposed to
Black Flies
by Heather Fairchild, SUNY Cortland, May 29, 2008
In a world where such TV shows as “House” and “Grey’s Anatomy” reign supreme, these shows exemplify an American desire to see every patient survive. Frankly, these “happy endings” (to coin a cliché) are not what happens out in the
This Is Who I Am
by Lorraine, , May 29, 2008
THIS IS WHO I AM: OUR BEAUTY IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES by Rosanne Olson 2008: Artisan (Workman) I admit it: even at 45, I look in a mirror and see flaws. The ten pounds I put on this long
Landsman
by Chris M. Poole, Associate Director Academic Computing Services, SUNY Cortland, May 29, 2008
Peter Charles Melman, Landsman : A Novel (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2007. Pp. 325. Reading group Guide.) Landsman is a work of historical fiction set in the Civil War. On the surface it is a story about young man, Jewish by birth,
Late Nights On Air
by Sasha Williams, SUNY Cortland, May 28, 2008
The structure and style of this novel gives the reader an intimate understanding of each character. The thought of living in such a small community, like Yellowknife, seems claustrophobic, but for Dido, Harry, Gwen, and other characters, it is
Kissing Dead Girls
by Lorraine Berry, , May 21, 2008
Kissing Dead Girls Daphne Gottlieb 2008: Soft Skull Press, Boston I have never thought that post-modernism/post-structuralism/Lacanian analysis is sexy: I love words, but jargon is a turn-off. Secret languages whispered in the ear of your lover, especially at the