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).

The Bizarre Life and Angry Times of Bill O'Reilly

O'Reilly's book tells the tale of how he blustered and threatened his way through life to reach TV stardom.
Posted on Dec 31, 2008, Source: AlterNet

5 Pieces of Advice for the New Paupers

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, Source: AlterNet

Sarah Palin's Big, Sleazy Safari

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, Source: AlterNet

The Three Dumbest Neocon Predictions Since the Disaster in Iraq

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, Source: AlterNet

Right-Wing Pathologies Revealed After Adkisson Shooting at Unitarian Church

When Free Republic forum posters learned that the gunman was from their own demographic, out came the conservative madness.
Posted on Jul 29, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Hitchens Gets Waterboarded, Withdraws from Iraq in 11 Seconds

Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture!
Posted on Jul 2, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Martin Amis & Chris Hitchens: Vicious Racism Concealed by a British Accent

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, Source: AlterNet

Why Is Coke Glamorous and Heroin Scary? Because of Halfwits Like Nikki Sixx

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, Source: AlterNet

Fighting Words: How to Humiliate -- and Convert -- a Right-Winger

Drop the condescending "populist" talk and get mean.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Literary Frauds Strike Again ... and Again

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, Source: AlterNet

Justice for A Genocide, in Book Form

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, Source: The eXile

Why Did We Let Bush Try to Bring Wal-Mart to Iraq?

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, Source: AlterNet

Yay, Yay for USA!

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, Source: The eXile

Whose Fault Is Frey?

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, Source: AlterNet