It's not complete, but I've received a list of things scheduled to run in the journal Historical Materialism in 2016 and it's impressive. Here it is: … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2016
Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Half-Baked Idea
Celebrate it or hate it as you will, Wikipedia has metamorphosed from its beginnings as a gangly cultural interloper into the de facto reference work of first resort..... My column from last week on Wikipedia's 15th birthday. And in one of the Half-Baked Ideas to Save the World (is that trademarked?) offered at the Random Nerds blogazine, editor-in-chief Bryce Rudow makes the case for "A Wiki … [Read more...]
Graphic nonfiction novels
Kent Worcester's article "The Graphics Juggernaut," posted last month at the website of New Politics magazine, looks at Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans (Verso) and three other recent political "titles aimed at the words-and-pictures market" -- which is probably a more serviceable description than calling them "graphic nonfiction novels," come to think of it. Among the … [Read more...]