Book Reviews, Fiction, Politics, Art Criticism, and Theatre Criticism

Staff of From the Wilderness Publications at Petrocollapse Conference in New York, May 2006. Seated: Mike Ruppert, Editor in Chief; leftmost, Jamey Hecht; third from left, Jenna Orkin; fifth from left, Michael Kane; rightmost, Dmitry Orlov.

“Marc Pietrzykowski’s ‘and the whole time I was quite happy,” Rattle,  May 2008.

“Dollar Decline Blues,” From the Wilderness, August 25, 2006

“Peak Asphalt, Too?” FTW, August 2, 2006

“Big Brother’s Blunt Instrument: Gold Confiscation in a Post-Dollar Collapse,” FTW, July 7, 2006

“Twilight in the Corn: the Bulldozing of South Central Farm Begins,” FTW, June 16, 2006

“Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma: New York City Conference, April 27,28,29, 2006,” FTW, May 10, 2006

“Biodiversity, GMO, and the Future,” FTW, April 20, 2006

“The Future at War with the Past: While South Central L.A.’s Urban Farmers Face Eviction, Peak Oil Threatens Global Food Supply,” FTW, March 22, 2006

“The Tempest at the Met: All Over the Place,” L.A. Splash.com, March 2006

“Shell Game: DoE Claims Massive CO2 Injection Could Quadruple U.S. Proven Oil Reserves,” FTW, March 10, 2006

“Othello at the Met: The Right Kind of Agony,” L.A. Splash.com,, February 2006

“Under Strains of Peak Oil and Gas, Ideology Stretches to the Limit,” FTW, January 20, 2006

“Ukraine, Russia, Natural Gas: Ideology or Hypothermia?” FTW, January 5, 2006

“Deffeyes at Caltech,” FTW, December 7, 2005

“Peak Oil Caucus Formed in U.S. House of Representatives: A New Beginning ad the Clock Runs Down,” FTW, November 23, 2005

“Biodefense Program in Galveston, TX Sacrifices Research for Public Safety,” FTW, September 22, 2005

“The Dollar, the U.N., and the U.S.: Right Wing Populists Still Fear the Wrong Thing,” FTW, August 29, 2005

“The ‘Koran Quotation Error’ Meme,” FTW, July 11, 2005

“The Rove Remarks,” FTW, June 23, 2005

“ASPO in Lisbon: the 2005 Conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas,” FTW, June 16, 2005

“Japan and China: A U.S. Strategic Outlook for the Next Two Minutes,” FTW, April 20, 2005‘

“PTECH, 9/11, and US-SAUDI TERROR,” FTW, 20 January 2005

“Taking the Fiscal Train Wreck to the Poverty Draft,” FTW, 4 January 2005

“Heeding the Music: Complete Poems of Basil Bunting,” American Book Review, September / October 2004, Vol. 25 No 6

“Christine Krol’s Sherman Boxes,” NY Arts Magazine, July / August 2004, Vol. 9 No 7.8

“Last Chance: Ilya Sachar’s Mortal Colors,”  NY Arts Magazine, July / August 2004, Vol. 9 No 7.8

“Richard Clarke’s Orchestra: Maestro Plays Simple Waltz; Shackled Media Manage To Dance Along,” FTW, April 5, 2004

“Failure and Crime Are Not The Same: 9-11’s Limited Hangouts,” FTW, 22 November 2003

“Zvi Lachman’s Sculptures: The Earliness of Strength and the Pain of Lateness,” NY Arts Magazine, September 2003

“Returner,” Independent Film Quarterly, August 2003

“Bad Faith Again: An Open Letter to the Nation Magazine,” Media Monitors Network, May 12, 2003

“Chairman of the Sandwichboard,” The Progressive Populist, Spring 2003

“The First Kiss of Coleman Hummel,” Fiction, Sundry, forthcoming

Introduction to the Electronic Edition of the Oxford book of English Verse, 1250-1950 Barnes & Noble.com  February 2002

“Ford and The Agency,” Counterpunch.org, October 18, 2001

“Poetry Lite: The House of Blue Light by David Kirby,” American Book Review, July / August 2001

“Cow’s Leap, New Poems of Tom Smith,” American Book Review, May 2000

“Charles Wright’s Black Zodiac and Mark Jarman’s Questions for Ecclesiastes,” American Book Review, October 1998

“Hardware,” Fiction, The Sycamore Review, Volume 10, No.2, Summer 1998

“The Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre Company’s Production ?? of Seamus Heaney’s The Cure At Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes,“? Poetry Calendar NYC, February 1998

“Depths of the Mirror: The Last Poems of Yannis Ritsos,” review essay in American Book Review, November 1997

“Ha Jin’s Facing Shadows,” review in Poetry Calendar NYC, November 1996

“Charlie Smith’s Cheap Ticket to Heaven,” review in Poetry Calendar NYC, December 1996

“Beaumarchais’ Barber of Seville: Genre and Innovation,” Playgoer’s Supplement of The Pearl Theatre NYC, October 1996