Nozone IX: Empire Edited by Nicholas Blechman (Princeton Architectural Press, 168 pages, $19.95) Quick: Can you link Kevin Bacon to Osama bin Laden? The artist Jennifer Daniel pulls it off on page 110 of Empire, the book-length ninth issue of…

In review: Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner (John Wiley & Sons, 394 pages, $27.95) TITILLATION GOES DOWN BETTER when you can claim you’re actually bettering yourself by wading…

South Park launched its eighth season this week with an episode that parodied Japanese anime, mocked the crackdown on “indecency,” and showed a kid getting a ninja throwing star stuck in his eye. At this point, Trey Parker and Matt…