Reason Writers Around Town: Jesse Walker on Country Soul in the American South; Cathy Young on the Anti-American Russian Movie Strangers

Over at the University Bookman, reason Managing Editor Jesse Walker takes a look at Say It One Time for the Broken Hearted: Country Soul in the American South, Barney Hoskyns' look at the porous border between country and soul music. Read all about it here.

And over at The New Republic, Contributing Editor Cathy Young reviews the new Russian movie Strangers, a film every bit as anti-American as anything coming out of certain precincts in Hollywood. Read all about it here.