The latest in the award-winning Counterpunch series detonates an
explosion of voracious, opinionated and witty fireworks on the
unexpected intersections of politics, art, music, architecture and sex.
In addition to 13 essays by Cockburn and St. Clair--dissecting
everything from Angelina Jolie's connections to sex, death and the
French Revolution to their famous "best books of the last 100 years."
Serpents in the Garden showcases essays from the nation's most exciting
and radical cultural critics--including music historian Bruce Jackson,
historian Peter Linebaugh, Lenni Brenner, scriptwriter Ben Tripp, blues
pianist David Vest, sex therapist Susan Block, JoAnn Wypijewski,
folklorist Susan Davis, Ron Jacobs, Susan Martinez and Andrew Cockburn.