Some excerpts from a review of Laurie Anderson's latest release in the Village Voice:

In her 1995 piece Stories From the Nerve Bible, venerable performance and recording artist Laurie Anderson quoted Don DeLillo, wondering if terrorists weren't "the only true avant-garde artists left, because they are the only ones still capable of surprising people."


….the big difference between art and terrorism is that terrorism is pathetic at meeting its long-term goals, at a far greater cost.

Has Northern Ireland emerged from 400 years of British control?

Has Israel fled the West Bank with its tail between its legs?

Did the FALN liberate Puerto Rico?

By the same token, books, plays, and films have always helped advance political and social causes….