James Warner is the author of All Her Father's Guns, a Bay Area novel, published in 2011 by Numina Press. His short stories have appeared in many publications. His personal website is here.
His openDemocracy column is Standing Perpendicular
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Published in: HomeIs the world riding a wild horse? Read Mark Helprin to understand American Republicanism
Helprin’s latest novel, In Sunlight and in Shadow, can be read as an elegy for the American Century. Helprin’s...
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Published in: HomePredators, Victims and Squarepegs: the moral universe of Irvine Welsh
In his fiction, Irvine Welsh asks how we can sustain a sense of community in a culture where pursuit of...
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Published in: HomeThe future of sex. Samuel R. Delany on working all that stuff out for yourself
In the worlds Samuel R. Delany describes and creates, a sense of community is to be found chiefly in marginalized...
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Published in: HomeDavid Mamet, Gilad Atzmon and identity politics
There are unexpected similarities between two writers usually thought of as polar opposites. The author ends up...
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Published in: HomeGovernment Violence, Human Nature, and The Hunger Games
Battle Royale and The Hunger Games are young adult novels in which governments force teenagers to kill each other....
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Published in: HomeSecret museums: Anita Desai and the desecrating gaze
In The Artist of Disappearance, Anita Desai meditates on the private and fragile nature of the creative act. Her...