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s/t: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Greeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Allen Sperm-Suckers, Satanic therapies When John Leonard says he's going to "use a nifty novel, Philip Kerr's A Philosophical Investigation , as an excuse to talk about everything else under the fascistic sun," he means it, as a review of a futuristic thriller turns into a grand tour of modern culture, with stops to look at (among other things) the history of serial killers, Weimar Germany, E.O. Wilson's theories of sociobiology, the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the roots of psychoanalysis, a 4th-century woman mathematician, and Copenhagen's paltry commemoration of Soren Kierkegaard. In these essays, gathered from various publications (mostly The Nation ), Leonard takes on everything from Toni Morrison to the X-Files movie in freewheeling, energetic style. Reading cultural criticism hasn't been this much fun since Lester Bangs was on the scene. When the Kissing Had to Stop is probably best suited for periodic dipping rather than a straight-through reading, because it is possible to overdose on the massive amounts of cultural literacy crammed into Leonard's

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Author

Leonard, John

Publisher

New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton; Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565845336

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.75 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14