Narcissism: ‘Selfish,’ by Kim Kardashian West, and More [3 Book Reviews with comment] By Caitlin Flanagan Illustration by Quentin Vijoux Appeared in the NY Times [http://nyti.ms/1O2Sgbx] [excerpted, edited, formatted, and headers, mine: RIW. It’s always easy to take a potshot at a current cultural icon. My hope is that by presenting this article attention might be drawn toward promoting a more reflective and helpful conversation about narcissism in particular and sociopathy in general. My apologies for using Ms. Kardashian as an example.] SELFISH by Kim Kardashian West. Illustrated. 445 pp. Rizzoli. $19.95. THE NARCISSIST YOU KNOW: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age by Joseph Burgo. 261 pp. Touchstone. $25. RETHINKING NARCISSISM: The Bad — and Surprising Good — About Feeling Special by Craig Malkin. 240 pp. Harper Wave. $25.99. Kim Kardashian and narcissism: is it sociopathy? During her reign, Kim Kardashian has proved herself to be a person of...

Presciently and timely 1994 interview with Author Walter Mosley #racism #in America Introduction to Interview Crime novelist Walter Mosley writes out of a need to show how race may dominate people’s way of seeing life. His portrayal of the detective, Easy Rawlins expresses, in a moving and profound way, the experience of a black man living in the white world of Los Angeles during the beginning years of the second half of the 20th century. Easy, as the narrative’s protagonist, acts out of a knowing awareness of how a rigid, racially-narrow social order can rule life. He embodies a compassionate and wise understanding of convention’s unjust realities. And perhaps he also now leaves us a gift: a perceptive, reflective window through which to gaze upon our present, national tragedies of prejudice and racial hatred. Let us together hope that now and in the future we might “seek good, and not evil, that you may live; … Hate evil, and love good, And establish justice in the gate” (Amos 5:...