INSIGHTFUL, INFORMATIVE LOOK at a multifaceted conflict in rural India from novelist/activist Arundhati Roy.

OVERVIEW OF THE “9/11 Truth” movement has some interesting interviews, but flounders in off-topic axe-grinding.

CHANNELING HUNTER S. THOMPSON for a Lovecraftian retelling of Nixon’s second victory? An idea so crazy it works!

INSIDE CUBA TODAY with a pioneering dissident blogger; insightful and moving prose in unobtrusive translation.

INSIDE 2009’S MEGA-SCANDAL of corruption, bribery, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, organ trading in New Jersey.

ENGAGING HISTORY of the early 20th century’s most influential anarchists, communists, Utopians, fringe thinkers.

ENGAGING, CLEARLY WRITTEN bio is a love letter to activist Jane Jacobs’s fight vs. overdevelopment in NYC. SOLID B

WRESTLING WITH MOSES: HOW JANE JACOBS TOOK ON NEW YORK’S MASTER BUILDER AND TRANSFORMED THE AMERICAN CITY by Anthony Flint
New York: Random House
July 2009