Book Reviews (Secular) Index
The Men Who Stare At Goats | |
 | The more bizarre elements of Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare At Goats are anchored in a disturbing reality that we know to be the truth. The shocking images from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were too weird, too perfectly calculated to do psycho-sexual and cultural damage, to be merely a case of a couple of bored, barely literate prison guards having a lark. Read ... The Men Who Stare At Goats |
The Play Ethic – A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living | |
 | I learnt about play from Pat Kane’s book The Play Ethic – A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living. This sprawling website of a book is perhaps a little less fun to read than it ought to be and could be half as long. It swings between groovy journalist chat and would-be academic prose. However, it contains a real and profound challenge to the way we live life in the west. Read ... The Play Ethic – A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living |
Urban Tribes | |
 | In his intriguing new book Urban Tribes, Californian journalist Ethan Watters argues that young adults are forming their own significant communities in place of traditional family units; and finding in these groups some of the benefits that family life offers. Read ... Urban Tribes |
