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).
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
