Changing Una
How can I criticize this heartfelt, earnest, all-the-right-references text? How can I bring myself to dis a young woman proclaiming from the left, however self-righteous she comes off? Lauren protests animal testing, censorship, and war; she talks up Amnesty International, the Onion, and the Communist Manifesto. She also suggests some books and movies. Her poetry is not great, and her lonelyheart journal-style prose musings are age-appropriate standard fare. But Lauren obviously thinks a lot and well, and so this is a zine worth watching out for. (MD)