Books Archive: J

Joshilyn Jackson

• Between, Georgia (Grand Central, 2007)

Poet Major Jackson

• News: It's a poet's job to study pop culture and decide what's worth keeping

A. J. Jacobs

• The Year of Living Biblically (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

Molly Bruce Jacobs

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books

Matthew Frye Jacobson

• Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-civil Rights America (Harvard University Press, 2006)

Steve Jacobson

• Feature: Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball -- and America

Susan Jacoby

• The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby / Power to Save the World by Gwyneth Cravens
• The Age of American Unreason (Knopf, 2008)

Eric Jager

• The Last Duel: A Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial By Combat in Medieval France (Broadway Books, 2005)

Clive James

• Les Enfants Terribles
• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts (W. W. Norton, 2007)

Lily James

• High Drama in Fabulous Toledo (FC2 [Fiction Collective Two], 2001)

Kay Redfield Jamison

• Exuberance: The Passion for Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)

Kenji Jasper

• Seeking Salamanca Mitchell (Harlem Moon/Random House, 2004)

Henry Jenkins

• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York University Press, 2006)
• The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture (New York University Press, 2006)

Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins

• Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital (Akashic, 2003)

Terri Jentz

• Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz

Catherine Jinks

• Evil Genius (Harcourt, 2007)

Warren St. John

• Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer (Crown, 2004)

Adam Johnson

• Parasites Like Us (Viking, 2003)

Chalmers Johnson

• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (Metropolitan Books, 2007)

Denis Johnson

• Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond (Harper Collins, 2001)
• Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

Kevin Johnson

• The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir [1940-1949] (Oak Knoll Press, 2007)

Steven Johnson

• Feature: Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson

Steven Johnston

• The Truth about Patriotism (Duke University Press, 2007)

James C. Johnstone

• Quickies 3: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003)

Edward P. Jones

• The Known World (Amistad, 2003)
• New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2007 (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007)

Gayl Jones

• White Rat (Harlem Moon, 2005)

Gerard Jones

• Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-believe Violence (Basic Books, 2002)

James Jones

• The Ice Cream Headache (Akashic, 2002)

Jeffrey Jones

• The Unaffordable Nation (Prometheus, 2007)

Kaylie Jones

• Speak Now (Akashic Books, 2005)

Kent Jones

• Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism (Wesleyan, 2007)

Lynne Jones

• Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia (Harvard University Press, 2005)

Stephen Graham Jones

• Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2005)
• The Fast Red Road - a Plainsong (Fiction Collective 2)

Tennessee Jones

• Deliver Me from Nowhere (Soft Skull, 2005)

Hillary Jordan

• Mudbound (Algonquin, 2008)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  It's impossible to read Mudbound without images of the Ninth Ward flooding one’s inner eye, or recalling the remarks made by former First Lady Barbara Bush.

   

James P. Moore, Jr.

• One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America (Doubleday, 2005)

James Whorton Jr.

• Frankland: A Novel (Free Press, 2005)

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

• Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy (HarperCollins, 2004)

Mireille Juchau

• Burning In (Giramondo, 2007)

Olivia Judson

• Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (Metropolitan Books, 2002)

Theodore Judson

• The Martian General's Daughter (Pyr, 2008)

Miranda July

• No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories (Scribner, 2007)

Ward Just

• Lowell Limpett and Two Short Stories (PublicAffairs Books, 2001)
• A Solider of the Revolution (PublicAffairs Books, 2002)