Here are some of their recommendations: Davis deconstructs the forces that shaped modern LA through history, from the ruins of a socialist 1914 community to the influence of real estate developers, journalists, noir writers or second world war exiles, among many other groups [the book's latest editions are updated to include events from the 1990s].
It made her conscious of a peculiarly 21st-century agony in which "the quest for love and sexual intimacy swims against the tide of a therapised world that deconstructs love and a cynical internet world that commodifies sex".
Underneath is a picture of Kate Moss in a bikini and an accompanying article, written by columnist Liz Jones, that supposedly "deconstructs" every aspect of Moss's body.
Entitled "Sex and Power in Turkey", the paper deconstructs the myth that Ataturk was the sole champion of Turkish women.
It deconstructs the rumbustious 1990s, when inner conflicts of the sort that always beset science but which are generally hidden from the public were made manifest.
Jill Lepore, a Harvard professor who deconstructs the uses and abuses of the past, is wary of would-be historians with an agenda.
A chapter on globalisation offers a seemingly random look at weddings in India, South Korea and Ethiopia; another deconstructs plotlines of wedding-themed films.
EZRA KLEIN ably deconstructs the "very clever policy two-step" involved in the meme that the 47% of Americans who currently pay no income taxes are "takers" (as Paul Ryan puts it) who refuse to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives" (as Mitt Romney puts it in the video above).
While giving himself permission to interpret Islam in a far more liberal way than most Muslims would contemplate, he deconstructs the received story of the life of Jesus, and posits another version, as though the historical facts of his life are both knowable and essential.
Sondheim and Lapine paired again for Into the Woods (1987; film 2014), which deconstructs and interweaves the plots of familiar fairy tales, and Passion (1994), a melodramatic romance based on the Italian film Passione d'amore (1981).
Instead, it goes for grand-scale broke, often cacophonously, but in a manner that preserves its makers' mob-handed brio, deconstructs it, questions itself and shifts gears with thrilling restlessness.
