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(Music Review) IR 29.1: New Generation Dub

Richard Marcus

IR 29 - New Generation Dub

One of the biggest crimes committed by the music industry has been their ability to co-opt, dilute and turn even the most radical of genres into something safe for mass consumption. Disco, punk and … [Read more...]

Book Review – IR 30: Indigenous Visions In Dub

Richard Marcus

Book Review: IR 30 Indigenous Visions In Dub

I guess it's appropriate that blockades have gone up again on the Tyndengia Mohawk reservation in South Eastern Ontario Canada as I begin to write this review. Here in Canada the First Nations people … [Read more...]

(Movie Review) Come Back Africa: The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Volume ll

Richard Marcus

Come Back Africa: The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Volume ll

Documentary movies always seem to get short shrift. For too many people there the things people tell them to watch at school so they will learn something. Growing up on a diet of talking heads sitting … [Read more...]

Book Review: Hijos de la Selva: Sons of the Forest

Richard Marcus

Hijos de la Selva: Sons of the Forest

In the early part of the 20th century photographer Edward Curtis was funded by American businessman J. P. Morgan to undertake the extensive task of making a photographic record of Native Americans … [Read more...]

Book Review – Tripping with Allah by Michael Muhammad Knight

Richard Marcus

Tripping with Allah by Michael Muhammad Knight

Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing by Michael Muhammad Knight Soft Skull Press / 978-1593764432 / 256 pages The idea of using drugs in order to achieve some sort of spiritual … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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