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Books
Tuesday, December 8 2009
By Nicholas DeRenzo
If Padgett Powell's new book is a novel, in some Dada sense of the word, it looks awfully similar to a list.
By Linda Winer
A lively if somewhat arbitrary history about the hero behind so much of what we know as modern American theater.
Monday, December 7 2009
By Robert Loss
This is another dilemma of postmodern realism in fiction: the culture which insists that everything is important saturates the form of the novel itself.
By Mike Leary
Fall of the Wall, 1989: A brilliant account of a Europe transformed.
Friday, December 4 2009
By Paul Hiebert
Chabon's conservative leanings are couched, perhaps paradoxically, in a hope that all children will develop into liberated adults.
By Carolyn W. Fanelli
If you’ve ever wondered how you might experience Afghanistan, then this is the book for you.
Thursday, December 3 2009
By Lara Killian
Rural Alaska provides the setting for emotional struggles between family members as violence, alcoholism, and economic hardship rock a small Inuit community.
By Rachel Balik
Through simple language and basic analogies, Krugman manages the great feat of explaining how money works in a vacuum, and how it has worked for us in the past 20 years.
Wednesday, December 2 2009
By Chris Barsanti
In attacking America's "cult of cheerfulness", Ehrenreich makes a good argument, but doesn't take it far enough.
By Mike Pursley
A wide-reaching rainbow of art, philosophy, and science, with everything from studies on infrastructural renewal to transcriptions of music from the ever-brutal Psycho shower scene.
Tuesday, December 1 2009
By Diane Leach
Mockett, the biracial daughter of a Japanese mother and Caucasian father, is a talented writer with an impressive grasp of East Asian culture and art.
By Sean Ferrell
The Simpsons may be so big, so ever-present, so referenced and referential that to try and swallow it in one book is doomed to failure.
Monday, November 30 2009
By Zachary Houle
An attempt to reach an older demographic with the book makes it a bit of a hard one to pin down, since its hyper-surrealism is probably best suited towards undiscriminating young boys.
By Shyam K. Sriram
If this came with a CD, I know what would be on it – Neko Case, The Drive-By Truckers, Gillian Welch, Kings of Leon, The Band and Mason Jennings. Like these artists, Jones makes America come alive.
Wednesday, November 25 2009
By Robert Loss
Most aspects of culture, Grossman argues, teach us to resist our innate urge to identify with the Other, but writing fulfills our wonder.
By Mark Reynolds
This reads very much like a leisurely ride, full of brief, thoughtful observations that open a window onto the thinking process of a restless artistic spirit.
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Wednesday, December 2 2009
By Michael E. Ross
Imus traffics in the tropes of hip-hop and black culture in general on an occasional, selective basis -- a cafeteria approach to cultural exploration as obvious as it is insincere.
Tuesday, November 24 2009
By John Carvill
Every corner of this book is filled with characterful touches. You can look, but you will not find this level of writing in any other Beatles book.
By PopMatters Staff
Bestselling author Sandra Brown chats about her weep-inducing, wavering confidence and advises that one should be wary of hiring a discount hit man.
Monday, December 7 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Philip K. Dick’s fiction is a defense of the validity of video games because despite the fact that they are not real, his stories argue that there is still something valid in the artificial.
(more Moving Pixels)
Thursday, December 3 2009
By Jennifer Makowsky
A scene shows Ryder blissfully tying up the manuscript and putting a rose under the string. That's rather like what Armstrong and the screenwriters did to the film: tied it up neatly with a pretty flower.
(more The Box Office Belletrist)
Tuesday, November 24 2009
By Chris Justice
Even anglers like myself yearn for guides with fishing IQs as rich as Squanto's, a Patuxet Native American who taught the Pilgrims how to fish.
(more The Tackle Box)
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