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Killing the Buddha

Where the Wild Things Aren’t

By Jeff Sharlet | February 21, 2009

I met KtB contributing editor Laurel Snyder back in 2004, when Peter Manseau and I went to Iowa City to promote Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible. At the time,…

Killing the Buddha

J.G. Ballard’s Pre-Posthumous Memoir

By Jeff Sharlet | February 13, 2009

KtB contributor (Believer, Beware division) Mark Dery reviews the great J.G. Ballard’s latest and possibly last book, a “pre-posthumous memoir” titled Miracles of Life, for L.A. Weekly. “In response to…

"A poverty that would keep us free."

It Makes Great Press

By Peter Smith | July 26, 2005

A group of New England Buddhists finds Zen in the art of panhandling–but at what cost?

Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman

Punctuated Equilibrium

By Matt Stefon | March 20, 2003

In Adaptation, the evolution of art occurs in fits and starts — and is never free of the hand of its creator.

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Amos Awake

By Haven Kimmel | July 3, 2002

Reading the book he’ll never write.

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Kafka in Love

By Erik Hanson | May 18, 2002

College reunions, marriage proposals, and other trials that make you buggy.

Got a few bucks for gas?

Using Our Bible as a Roadmap

By Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet | November 27, 2001

The Buddha Boys hit the highway to save a soul near you.

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Righting Waco: Confessions of a Hollywood Propagandist

By Phil Penningroth | August 25, 2001

The author of a prime time apocalypse ponders ratings, truth and redemption.

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Zen Mind, Alkie Mind

By Martha G. | February 9, 2001

Lust, Liquor, and Bill W.’s Elegant American Buddhism.