The Mantle seeks reviews, critiques and analysis on a variety of issues from a wide array of sources. While we welcome suggestions of material to critique, below is a sample list of material we would like to see reviewed. Choose an item from the list below to review, or feel free to send us your own suggestions of something similar. Likewise, if we are missing an item worthy of critique, let us know! This page is often updated, so check back soon!
We recommend you send submission queries to info(at)mantlethought.org before you dig into a particular piece, that way we can best gauge where and how your critique will fit in with The Mantle. An initial query ensures nobody's time and energy is wasted.
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Acts of Faith (Philip Caputo) (under review!) Africa (Richard Dowden) (under review!) African Development (Todd Moss) Africa's Turn? (Edward Miguel) The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (Frans de Waal) The Age of the Unthinkable (Joshua Cooper Ramo) Armenian Gologotha (Grigors Balakian) Better Safe than Sorry (Michael Krepon) Bombing Civilians (Marilyn B. Young) The Challenge for Africa (Wangari Maathi) Children of Jihad (Jared Cohen) China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa (Serge Michel and Michel Beuret) Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber) Darfur and the Crime of Genocide (John Hagan and Wenona Raymond-Richmond) Darfur's Sorrow (M.W. Daly) Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa (Dambisa Moyo) Emma's War (Deborah Scroggins) (under review!) Empire of Lies (Guy Sorman) First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Slavoj Zizek) (under review!) The Follies of Power (David P. Calleo) Food Politics (Marion Nestle) Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What it Will Mean for Our World (Vali Nasr) The Geopolitics of Emotion (Dominique Moisi) Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn) (under review!) The Hindus: An Alternative History (Wendy Doniger) Human Smoke (Nicholson Baker) The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen) iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam (Gary R. Bunt) In the Land of the Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom (Qanta Ahmed) (under review!) India After Gandhi (Ramachandra Guha) Iranophobia (Haggai Ram) The Islamist (Ed Husain) (under review!) Justice and Mercy Will Kiss: Paths of Peace in a World of Many Faiths (Michael Duffey and Deborah S. Nash, eds) Kapuscinski Non-Fiction (Artur Domoslawski) The Life and Death of Democracy (John Keane) Life Inc. (Douglas Rushkoff) The One Straw Revolution (Masanobu Fukuoka) Peace: A World History (Antony Adolf) Planet India (Mira Kamdar) Power Rules (Leslie Gelb) Punishment of Virtue (Sarah Chayes) Reflections on the Revolution in Europe (Christopher Caldwell) The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism (Joyce Appleby) Shoot an Iraqi (Wafaa Bilal) The Snakehead (Patrick Radden Keefe) Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Geoffrey Miller) Stones into Schools (Greg Mortensen) The Three Cultures (Jerome Kagan) Too Smart for Our Own Good (Craig Dilworth) El Viaje a la Ficcion: El Mundo de Juan Carlos Onetti (Mario Vargas Llosa) Vietnam at War (Mark Philip Bradley) Virtualpolitik (Elizabeth Losh) War Crimes and Just War (Larry May) Wars, Guns and Votes (Paul Collier) (reviewed!) When China Rules the World (Martin Jacques)
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2666 (Roberto Bolano) (reviewed!) The Age of Orphans (Laleh Khadivi) Artificial Respiration (Ricardo Piglia) Barneregjeringen (Aleksander Melli) The Beijing of Possibilities (Jonathan Tel) Between the Assassinations (Aravind Adiga) Black Bazar (Alain Mabanckou) Blood Test (Abbas Beydoun) The Book of Fathers (Miklós Vámos) The Boy Who Catches Wasps (Duo Duo) The Bridge of the Golden Horn (Emine Sevgi Ozdamar) Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Shahriar Mandanipour) Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money (Maghiel van Crevel) The Country Where No One Ever Dies (Ornela Vorpsi) Departing at Dawn (Gloria Lise) The Disappeared (Kim Echlin) An Elegy for Easterly (Petinah Gappah) The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami) (under review!) English August (Upamanyu Chatterjee) (reviewed!) Ex-Odes du Jardin: Variations & autres collages d'intemporalite (Rome Deguerge) Far North (Marcel Theroux) The Feline Plague (Maja Novak) Friendly Fire (A.B. Yehoshua) Ghosts (Cesar Aira) De Hearen fan Fryslan (Arjen Terpstra) I Name Me Name (Opal Palmer Adisa) Impardonnables (Philippe Djian) In Sparta (Mark Wagstaff) In the United States of Africa (Percival Everett) The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (C.M. Mayo) Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (Mo Yan) Literature from the Axis of Evil (Various authors) Maidenhair (Mikhail Shishkin) Memories of the Future (Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky) Mirrors (Eduardo Galeano) My Children! My Africa! (Athol Fugard) Niki, The Story of a Dog (Tibor Déry) In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Daniyal Mueenuddin) Petropolis (Anya Ulinich) Ruins (Achy Obejas) Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolano) (reviewed!) Say You're One of Them (Uwem Akpan) The Siege (Ismail Kadare) Skrik (Elske Schotanus) Staying Blue (Gibbons Ruark) Talking Lines (R. O. Blechman) A Thousand Deaths Plus One (Sergio Ramirez) Tirana memoria (Horacio Castellanos Moya) Too Much Happiness (Alice Munro) The Unit (Ninni Holmqvist) The Wish Maker (Ali Sethi) (under review!) A Woman in Jerusalem (A. B. Yehoshua) |
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Afghan Star (Havana Marking) Be Like Others (Tanaz Eshaghian) Burma VJ (Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller) Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore) The Cove (Louie Psihoyo) The Corporation Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms The Devil Came on Horseback (reviewed!) Disarm (Brian Liu and Mary Wareham) Fixer Food, Inc (Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein) Gasland Import/Export The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith) Objectified (Gary Hustwit) Our Bombs The Revolution Will Not Be Televised South of the Border (Oliver Stone) Super Girls! (Jian Yi) Taxi Ride to Hell Up the Yangtze Which Way Home (Rebecca Cammisa) |
Ajami Bliss Broken Embraces The Class Coco Before Chanel (reviewed!) Gomorrah The Hurt Locker (reviewed!) Lorna's Silence The Milk of Sorrow Munyurangabo My Name is Khan O'Horton Paris Police, adjective Un Prophete Revanche El Secreto de Sus Ojos Seraphine Sleep Dealer Still Walking The Stoning of Soraya M. Summer Hours Tokyo Sonata Tulpan The White Ribbon
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The Art Insitute of Chicago's new Modern Wing (architectural / spatial / exhibition critique sought) The new Acropolis Museum in Athens (architectural / spatial / exhibition critique sought) The new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (architectural / spatial / exhibition critique sought) Ruined (play) Seven (play) Vagina Monologues (play) |
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The Mantle seeks to host international bloggers and their columns in a variety of thematic areas. Bloggers will have their own blog and are expected to contribute fresh posts at least once per week. Topics/themes are dependent on the interest of the writer, but must have broad appeal to an international audience and match the spirit of The Mantle.
The blog feature of The Mantle is intended to be eclectic. While the language and format are looser and lighter than other features of mantlethought.org, the topics and posts should not be silly or one-offs. Blog posts should be thought-provoking and original, with sprinkles of humor thrown in for good measure. Ideas for topic areas to blog include film, books, art, environment, democracy, international affairs, health, academia, media, war and peace, music, urbanization, women’s rights, and so much more. Truly, the sky is the limit!
Each blog post will be publicized on social networks and when appropriate, shared with relevant members of media, academia, government, and elsewhere. Bloggers are expected to self-promote as well. Blog postings may be cross-posted elsewhere (e.g. other media sites, personal website) so long as The Mantle is recognized as the blog’s home and place of initial publication.
International writers are especially sought, though a command of the English language is a must. Previous blogging experience is a plus, but not necessary. If interested, please email info(at)mantlethought.org (subject: Blog Query) outlining the theme you wish to blog about, why it will fit well with The Mantle and appeal to a broad, international audience, as well as links to previously published blogs (or attach writing samples). Don't forget to note from which country you will be blogging.
