Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of EmpireIn their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of American empire? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more areas of life, is actually creating the possibility for a

He writes about the rain

rescuing it from the derision into which it had slipped and restoring its original meaning of inspiring emotion or feeling

mourning their losses and killing time

As all readers of American literature know

and who is she to him

weed dealer and eventual founder of High Times Tom Forcade

Hélène Bessette’s debut novel

the tortured duke of Bomarzo and creator of the Italian town’s famously bizarre “Garden of the Monsters

This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society

He gets involved with a woman

interviewing Al Capone in Chicago

The resulting libel case put McGinniss's methods on trial