Synopses & Reviews
The latest in the award-winning Counterpunch series detonates an explosion of voracious, opinionated and witty fireworks on the unexpected intersections of politics, art, music, architecture and sex.
In addition to 13 essays by Cockburn and St. Clair—dissecting everything from Angelina Jolie’s connections to sex, death and the French Revolution to their famous “best books of the last 100 years.” Serpents in the Garden showcases essays from the nation’s most exciting and radical cultural critics—including music historian Bruce Jackson, historian Peter Linebaugh, Lenni Brenner, scriptwriter Ben Tripp, blues pianist David Vest, sex therapist Susan Block, JoAnn Wypijewski, folklorist Susan Davis, Ron Jacobs, Susan Martinez and Andrew Cockburn.
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The second in the popular Counterpunch series takes on American culture, in articles ranging from New Hampshire's history with marijuana to architectural terrorism, form a Freudian look at john Ashcroft to Charles Mingus. Everything you wanted to know about culture but were afraid to ask.
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Cultural Writing. The latest in the award-winning counterpunch series detonates and explosion of voracious, opinionated and witty fireworks on the unexpected intersections of politics, art music, architecture and sex. In addition to 13 essays by Cockburn and St. Clair, SERPENTS showcases essays from the nation's most exciting and radical cultural critics.
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Everything you wanted to know about culture but were afraid to ask.
About the Author
Alexander Cockburn is a syndicated national columnist, whose work appears regularly in the Nation, NY Free Press, and LA Times, amongst others. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he is the editor of the online journal Alexander Cockburn is co-editor of the online journal Counterpunch and has authored and edited numerous books, including the best-selling Whiteout.