The Psychic Soviet

If you're interested in rock and roll, the changing world of culture and fashion, the class system, the top 40, a people's history of recent world history and anything else that might be implied by this, you've gotta check this book out! The far-ranging gaze of Svenonius takes in all these topics and more in an inventive set of nineteen essays and prose pieces that are at once revelatory and hilarious. You'll gasp as Svenonius outlines the relationships between coffee drinking and imperialism in "The Bloody Latte"; you'll nod in agreement with the exposure of Hollywood's latest misogynist trend in "Mordor Dearest." And so on. The book is a seemingly bottomless well of resource for understanding the layers of complexity (and dare we say it? Conspiracy!) that drive our modern world. That so deep of a tome should be so portable is yet another aspect of it's genius - because The Psychic Soviet is less than six inches tall by four inches wide. This allows it to be carried everywhere with little obstruction. And the cover, a pink soft-plastic shell with embossed lettering, will attract inquiring eyes (and the minds that drive them) everywhere it's flashed.