The April/May issue of the Boston Review came in the mail yesterday. Check it out online. The cover article is “Islam and the Challenge of Democracy” by UCLA Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, with responses from John Esposito, Nader Hashemi, Noah Feldman, William Quandt and many others. The issue also contains a short story titled “A Wrong Thing” by the amazing A.L. Kennedy.
Kottke had an idea for the book publishing industry that scares me too much to even repeat here. See for yourself.
Thanks to Moby for the link.
Faux News’ ratings success notwithstanding, Americans are turning to books to get an alternative point of view on current events: A slew of books “of a heretical flavor” are on bestseller lists.
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will be at UCLA this very weekend. You can get free tickets via Ticketmaster (and, believe it or not, they’re not charging “handling fees”.) Act quickly though, as tickets go fast and some panels are already sold out.