Books Archive: R

Jonathan Raban

• Surveillance (Pantheon, 2007)

Paul Raeburn

• Acquainted With the Night (Broadway Books, 2004)

Imad Rahman

• I Dream of Microwaves (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)

Brian Railsback

• The Darkest Clearing (High Sierra Books, 2004)

David Rakoff

• Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems (Doubleday, 2005)

Ted Rall

• Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists (Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, 2004)

Jan Ramjerdi

• Re>la>vir (Fiction Collective 2)

Dee Dee Ramone

• Legend of a Rock Star: A Memoir: the Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003)

Arnold Rampersad

• Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Knopf, 2007)
• Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Knopf, 2007)

Alice Randall

• The Wind Done Gone (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)

Stephen Randall

• They Played the Game, Vol. 1 (M Press, 2006)

Clotaire Rapaille

• The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do (Broadway Books, 2006)
• The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do (Broadway Books, 2007)

Ben Ratliff

• Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

Stephen Rauch

• Neil Gaiman's the Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth (Wildside Press, 2003)

Shannon Ravenel

• New Stories from the South: 2001, the Year's Best (Algonquin Books, 2001)

Deanna Raybourn

• Silent in the Grave (Mira, 2007)

Mark Read

• (Pluto Press, 2002)

Paul Reading

• Faunal (Bloodaxe Books, 2002)

Peter Reading

• Collected Poems 3: Poems 1997-2003 (Bloodaxe Books, 2003)

Michael Redclift

• Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste (Routledge, 2004)

Helen Reddy

• News: Helen Reddy's miles away from her singing days

Michael Redhill

• Consolation: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

Dale Volberg Reed, John Shelton Reed, John T. Edge (Editors)

• Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing (University of Georgia Press, 2008)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  A vivid, heart-felt, often lyrical look at some of the most iconic food of the South -- from the commercial to the home-cooked to the most seasonal of delicacies, gathered in the wild.

   

John Reed

• The Whole (Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster, MTV Books, 2005)

Thomas C. Reeves

• Twentieth Century America: A Brief History (Oxford University Press, 2000)

Ricardo J. Brown, edited by William Reichard

• Keeping Secrets (University of Minnesota Press)

Josua Reichert

• The World's Smallest Book (Die-Gestalten Verlag)

Kathy Reichs

• Bones to Ashes (Scribner, 2007)

ed. George Reisch

• Column: Rock Hits Wall

Jim Reisler

• The Best Game Ever: October 13, 1960: Pirates 10, Yankees 9 (Carroll & Graf, 2007)

Brett L. Renwick

• Wired for Chaos (Creation Books, 2005)

Frederick Reuss

• Mohr (Unbridled Books, 2006)

Donald F. Reuter

• Fabulous!: A Loving, Luscious and Lighthearted Look At Film from the Gay Perspective (Broadway Books, 2004)

Simon Reynolds

• Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-punk 1978-1984 (Faber and Faber (UK); Penguin (US), 1969)
• Feature: Live Fast, Die Young, or Get Off the Stage

Tom Reynolds

• I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard (Hyperion, 2006)

Gary D. Rhodes with Richard Sheffield

• Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares (Collectables Press, 2007)

Gary Don Rhodes

• White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2001)

Lucy Riall

• Garibaldi: Citizen of the World by Alfonso Scirocco

Mark Ribowsky

• He's a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock and Roll's Legendary Producer (Da Capo, 2007)

Christopher Rice

• A Density of Souls (Talk Miramax Books, 2001)

Frank Rich [The Greatest Story Ever Sold]

• News: Ex-critic Frank Rich now covers a different theater

Nicole Richie

• The Truth About Diamonds (Regan Books (US) / HarperCollins (Australia), 2005)

Bob Rickard and John Michell

• The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena (Penguin, 2007)

Laurence Rickels

• The Case of California (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Christopher Ricks

• Dylan's Visions of Sin (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2004)

David Rieff

• Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Laurie Viera Rigler

• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

Nicholas Rinaldi

• Between Two Rivers (HarperCollins, 2004)

Jonathan W. Rinzler

• News: Go Force and multiply: 'Star Wars' turns 30
• The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story behind the Original Film (Random House/Del Ray Books, 2007)

David Ritz

• Elvis By the Presleys: Intimate Stories from Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley and Other Family Members (Crown, 2005)

Graham Robb

• Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (W.W. Norton, 2004)

Alexandra Robbins

• The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids (Hyperion, 2006)

Tom Robbins

• Villa Incognito (Bantam Doubleday Dell (US); Random House (Australia), 1969)

Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts

• A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man (Three Rivers Press, 2005)

Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Knopf, 2006)

William Owen Roberts

• Pestilence (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003)

James Robertson

• The Testament of Gideon Mack (Hamish Hamilton, 2007)

Margaret Lowrie Robertson

• Season of Betrayal (Harcourt, 2007)

Michael Robidoux

• Men At Play: A Working Understanding of Professional Hockey (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001)

Heath Robinson

• Contraptions (Duckworth Overlook, 2007)

Phil Robinson

• Charlie Big Potatoes (Regan Books, 2003)

Fiammetta Rocco

• The Miraculous Fever Tree, Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World (HarperCollins, 2003)

Jack Klugman (with Burton Rocks)

• Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship (Good Hill Press, 2005)

Jason Rodriguez [Editor]

• Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened (Villard, 2007)

Robert A. Rodriguez

• The 1950s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities (Potomac Books, 2006)

Lisa Rogak

• The Man Behind the Da Vinci Code: The Unauthorized Biography of Dan Brown (Andrews McNeel Publishing [US] / Scribe [Australia], 2006)

Jeffrey H. Rohlfs

• Bandwagon Effects in High Technology Industries (MIT Publishing, 2001)

James Rollins

• Amazonia (William Morrow & Co., 2002)

Tony Romano

• When the World Was Young (HarperCollins, 2007)

Noliwe M. Rooks

• White Money/black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education (Beacon Press, 2006)

Bill Roorbach

• The Smallest Color (Counterpoint, 2001)

Deborah van Rooyen

• Boat Bastard: A Love/hate Memoir (ReganBooks, 2002)

Chris Rose

• 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
• 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

David Rose [Editor]

• They Call Me Naughty Lola: The London Review of Books Personal Ads -- A Reader (Scribner [US] / Profile Books [UK], 2006)

Joel Rose

• The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York (Norton, 2007)

Carl Fleischhauer and Neil V. Rosenberg

• Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86 (University of Illinois Press, 2001)

Mark Rosenberg

• The United States and Central America: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility (Routledge, 2007)

Arthur Rosenfeld

• The Crocodile and the Crane: A Novel of Immortality and Apocalypse (YMAA Fiction, 2007)

Hanna Rosin

• God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America (Harcourt, 2007)

Philip Roth

• Everyman (Houghton Mifflin)
• Exit Ghost (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

Anne Rouse

• The School of Night (Bloodaxe Books, 2004)

J. K. Rowling

• Feature: The end is near
• Feature: The Boy Who Lives On: Harry Potter's Place in Popular Culture
• Feature: Harry Potter and the last hurrah
• Feature: Classic Harry
• Feature: Harry Potter death odds
• Feature: Harry Potter and the judgment of posterity
• News: 'Potter' still magic in finale
• News: Harry Potter and the alchemy theory
• News: Rowling triumphs with final 'Harry Potter' installment
• Feature: Can Harry Potter conjure a generation of writers? Or, at least, readers?
• Feature: What awaits the literary world beyond the Deathly Hallows?
• News: Preserving the secrecy of the Harry Potter plot

J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince (Scholastic, 2005)

Marina Roy

• Sign After the X ____ (Advance Editions, an imprint of Arsenal Pulp Press, and Artspeak)

Adriana Rubio

• Layne Staley: Angry Chair (Xanadu Enterprises, 2003)

Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, and Jay Ruby

• Image Ethics in the Digital Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)

Matt Ruff

• Set This House in Order (HarperCollins, 2003)

Jim Ruland

• Big Lonesome (Gorsky Press, 2005)

Ann Rule

• Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

Carol Rumens

• Hex (Bloodaxe Books, 2002)

Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt

• It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy (Broadway Books, 2005)

Salman Rushdie

• Shalimar the Clown (Random House, 2005)

Richard Russo

• Empire Falls (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
• Empire Falls (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
• Bridge of Sighs (Knopf, 2007)

Danya Ruttenberg

• Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism (Seal Press)

Jay Ryan

• 100 Posters, 134 Squirrels: A Decade of Hot Dogs, Large Mammals, and Independent Rock: the Handcrafted Art of Jay Ryan (Akashic, 2006)