Stories by John Dolan
John Dolan is an editor of the Moscow-based English-language alternative paper, The eXile. He is the author of, most recently, Pleasant Hell (Capricorn, 2005).
I just went through the hell of going from grad school-level poverty to the real thing. Here are my lessons learned.
Posted on Oct 15, 2008
For most of us, zooming around in an airplane to shoot wolves sounds insane. For Sarah Palin, it's a "safari."
Posted on Sep 2, 2008
Nothing seems to keep the Neocons from losing respectability. Here are three contenders for the dumbest Neocon predictions post-Iraq.
Posted on Aug 25, 2008
When Free Republic forum posters learned that the gunman was from their own demographic, out came the conservative madness.
Posted on Jul 29, 2008
Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture!
Posted on Jul 2, 2008
The American right wing, desperate for articulate hate mongers, is importing UK polemicists to stir the base up against the Muslim/Arab "enemy."
Posted on May 24, 2008
Sixx, the '80s hair rocking bassist for Motley Crue, offers to the public the memoirs of his drug-addled stardom -- if only he could admit he had fun.
Posted on Apr 12, 2008
Drop the condescending "populist" talk and get mean.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008
A Valley Girl masquerades as an L.A. gangster and a Catholic woman says she's a Jew raised by wolves. Why do people keep falling for such frauds?
Posted on Mar 8, 2008
A decade after the 'lessons learned' of World War II, British colonizers slaughtered at least 300,000 in Kenya. Only now has the first serious history been published detailing the crimes.
Posted on Sep 30, 2006
The USA wouldn't be stuck in conflicts abroad if only we could stop believing that the American way is the best way.
Posted on Sep 16, 2006
Yale professor John Lewis Gaddis engages in a torrent of patriotic self-congratulation in his new book about the Cold War.
Posted on Jul 5, 2006
Fans of disgraced author James Frey didn't value his writing -- they revered the moral of his story and his bad-boy bio that backed it up.
Posted on Jan 17, 2006
