Books Archive: S

Peter Sís

• The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)

Oliver Sacks

• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf, 2007)

Nick Sagan, Mark Frary, Andy Walker

• You Call This the Future?: The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined and Science Promised (Chicago Review, 2008)

Edward W. Said

• Defending the West by Ibn Warraq

James M. Salem

• The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&b to Rock 'n' Roll (University Of Illinois Press, 2001)

Chris Salewicz

• Feature: Part 3: Red Hand of Fate [1979]
• Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer (Faber and Faber, 2007)
• Feature: Part 4: Anger Was Cooler [1982-1984]
• Feature: Part 1: Straight to Heaven [2002]
• Feature: Part 5: On the Other Hand... [1988–1989]
• Feature: Part 2: Under Heavy Manners [1976-1977]

Richard Sand

• Hell's Reunion: (Lucas Rook Mysteries) (Durban House, 2006)

Scott A. Sandage

• Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (Harvard University Press, 2005)

Michael J. Sandel

• Babies by Design by Ronald M. Green

Lauren Sanders

• Kamikaze Lust (Akashic Books, 2001)

C. J. Sansom

• Sovereign (Penguin, 2007)

Bob Santelli [Author of 'Greetings from E Street']

• News: 'Greetings from E Street': A look back at a band's glory days

Robert Santelli

• Born To Run by Eric Meola

Marjane Satrapi

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Books, 2003)

Dan Savage

• Skipping Towards Gomorrah (Dutton, 2002)

Jon Savage

• Column: 1977: The Year Decency Died - Part I

David Niall Wilson and Brett Alexander Savory

• My Eyes Are Nailed, But Still I See (Delirium Books, 2005)

Frank Schaeffer

• Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of it Back (Da Capo, 2007)

Timothy Schaffert

• Devils in the Sugar Shop (Unbridled Books, 2007)

Joel Schalit

• Jerusalem Calling: A Homeless Conscience in a Post-everything World (Akashic, 2002)

Kate Schatz

• Rid of Me: A Story (Continuum, 2007)

Danny Schechter

• Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or "evil Cult"? (Akashic Books, 2000)
• News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics 1960-2000 (Akhasic Books, 2001)

Majgull Axelsson, translated by Linda Schenk

• April Witch (Random House, 2003)

Richard Schickel

• Feature: Celebrating Bogie

Richard Schickel and George Perry

• Feature: Celebrating Bogie

Michael Schiefelbein

• Vampire Thrall (Alyson, 2003)
• Vampire Vow (Alyson Publications, 2001)

André Schiffrin [A Political Education]

• News: An American publisher discovers deep down he's a European

Andre Schiffrin

• The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read (Verso Books, 2000)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

• Feature: The Rise of Christian Fascism and Its Threat to American Democracy

Eric Schlosser

• Fast Food Nation (HarperCollins, 2002)

Brenda Schmahmann

• Material Matters: Appliqués By the Weya Women of Zimbabwe and Needlework By South African Collectives (Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2000)

Steven Jay Schneider

• Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe (FAB Press, 2003)

Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider

• Underground Usa: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (Wallflower Press, 2002)

Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell

• The Rat Pack: Neon Nights With the Kings of Cool (HarperEntertainment, 2003)

Diane Schoemperlen

• Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel of Mary, Faith and Friendship (Penquin, 2002)

Cioma Schonhaus

• The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin (Da Capo, 2008)

Patricia Schonstein

• A Time of Angels (William Morrow, 2004)

Donald G. Schueler

• Preserving the Pasagoula (University Press of Mississippi)

Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer (Editors)

• Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Emily Schultz

• Songs for the Dancing Chicken (ECW Press, 2007)

Deborah Schupack

• The Boy on the Bus (The Free Press, 2003)

F.C. DeCoste and Bernard Schwarz

• The Holocaust's Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education (University of Alberta Press)

Alfonso Scirocco

• Garibaldi: Citizen of the World by Alfonso Scirocco

Aurelia C. Scott

• Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening (Algonquin Books, 2007)

Michael Scott

• The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2007)

Lisa Scottoline

• Devil's Corner (HarperCollins, 2005)
• Dead Ringer (HarperCollins, 2003)

Barrett Seaman

• Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess (John Wiley & Sons, 2006)

John Searles

• Boy Still Missing (Perennial, 2002)

Alice Sebold

• The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown and Company, 2002)
• The Almost Moon (Little, Brown and Company, 2007)
• News: Alice Sebold returns with another morbid plot, beautifully written

Amy Sedaris

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books

David Sedaris

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Little, Brown & Co., 2004)
• News: David Sedaris: Unapologetic, quirky as ever

Lisa See

• Peony in Love: A Novel (Random House, 2007)
• Peony in Love: A Novel (Random House, 2007)

Amy E. Seham

• Whose Improv Is It Anyway? Beyond Second City (University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

Elizabeth Young, with an Introduction by Will Self

• Pandora's Handbag: Adventures in the Book World (Serpent's Tail, 2003)

Will Self

• The Book of Dave (Bloomsbury, 2006)

Penelope Sell

• A Secret Burial (Flamingo/HarperCollins Australia, 2003)

Brian Selznick

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press, 2007)

Kevin Sessums

• Mississippi Sissy (St. Martin's Press, 2007)

Jack Shaheen

• News: Author chips away at Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs, Muslims

Harry Shapiro

• Shooting Stars: Drugs, Hollywood, and the Movies (Serpent's Tail, 2003)

Peter Shapiro

• Feature: In the Eye of the Glitterball

Jeff Sharlet

• The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper, 2008)

  Featured Article

  

  What if the American fundamentalists' power and influence became such that they helped destabilize the New Deal, played key roles in anti-Communist foreign policy during the Cold War, and supported numerous bloodthirsty dictators?

   

Matthew Sharpe

• The Sleeping Father (Soft Skull Press, 2003)

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

• Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women (NYU Press, 2007)

William Shatner

• News: 'Up Till Now' is that rare, entertaining celebrity biography

Philip Shaw

• 33 1/3: Patti Smith's Horses (Continuum, 2008)

Wilfrid Sheed

• The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of Fifty (Random House, 2007)

Jim Sheeler

• Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People who Led Extraordinary Lives (Pruett, 2007)

Rob Sheffield

• Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Crown, 2007)
• Column: Love from the '90s, Mix-Tape Style

Jim Shepard

• Project X (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)
• Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories (Knopf, 2007)

  Featured Article

  

  With this brilliant book, Shepard has established himself as modern fiction's master of voice.

   

Lucius Shepard

• Valentine (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003)

Jean Shepherd

• Column: The Good Shepherd

Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss

• Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing (Small Beer Press, 2007)

Pat Shipman

• To the Heart of the Nile (HarperCollins, 2004)

John Shirley

• Darkness Divided (Stealth Press, 2001)

Philip Shirley

• Oh Don't You Cry for Me: Stories (Jefferson Press, 2008)

Wayne Shorter

• Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter by Michelle Mercer

Elaine Showalter

• Column: Horrors in the Closet

Kenneth Shropshire

• Being Sugar Ray: The Life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and the First Celebrity Athlete (Basic Civitas, 2007)

Gary Shteyngart

• The Russian Debutante's Handbook (Riverside Books, 2002)

David A. Shugarts

• Secrets of the Widow's Son: The Mysteries Surrounding the Sequel to the Da Vinci Code (Sterling Publishing, 2005)

Carl Shuker

• The Lazy Boys (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006)

Ayesha Siddiqa

• News: From taboo tome to must-read

Lee Siegel

• Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob (Spiegel & Grau, 2008)

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

• Last Rituals: An Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2007)

Ed Sikov

• Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (Hyperion Books, 2002)

Mireille Silcott

• Rave America: New School Dancescapes (ECW Press, 1999)

Ron Silliman

• The Age of Huts (compleat) (University of California Press, 2007)

Donald Richie (edited by Arturo Silva)

• The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 2001)

Daniel Silva

• News: Terrorism opens door for novelist Daniel Silva

Alain Silver and James Ursini [Eds]

• The Gangster Film Reader (Limelight Editions, 2007)

Robert Silverberg

• News: Back from the future: Robert Silverberg has guided sci-fi readers for 55 years

Shel Silverstein

• Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook (HarperCollins, 2005)

Georges Simenon

• The Strangers in the House (New York Review of Books Classics, 2006)
• The Engagement (New York Review Books, 2007)

David Simon

• Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Owl Books, 2006)

Leslie Simon, Trevor Kelly

• Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture (Harper, 2007)

Mark Simpson

• Saint Morrissey (SAF Publishing, 2004)

Paul Simpson

• The Rough Guide to Westerns (Rough Guides, 2006)
• The Rough Guide to Elvis (Rough Guides (Penguin Group), 2005)

P. W. Singer

• Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell University Press, 2008)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  By refusing to cast himself as a finger-wagging scold on the subject of military contractors, Singer’s concerns have all that much more power.

   

David Sirota

• Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government -- and How We Take It Back (Crown Publishers, 2006)

Martin Sixsmith

• Death of a Dissident by Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko, Marina Litvinenko

Nikki Sixx

• Feature: Lead By Example: A New Dawn With Sixx: A.M.
• The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Pocket, 2007)

Robert Sklar

• Feature: La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)

Floyd Skloot

• A World of Light (University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

Giles Slade

• Column: Disposable Personality

Slash, Anthony Bozza

• Slash (Harper Entertainment, 2007)

Jacob Slichter

• So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life (Broadway Books, 2004)

Kay Sloan

• The Birds Are on Fire (Finishing Line Press, 2006)

David Smay

• Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3) (Continuum, 2007)

Jane Smiley

• Ten Days in the Hills (Knopf, 2007)
• The Greenlanders (Anchor Books, 2005)
• News: Smiley's 'Ten Days' took circuitous route

Andrew Smith

• Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Bloomsbury, 2005)

D. L. Smith

• The Miracles of Santo Fico (Warner Books, 2003)

Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson

• The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting with the Movement Shaping Our Culture (InterVarsity Press, 2006)

Jane S. Smith

• Fool's Gold (Zoland Books)

Jean Edward Smith

• FDR (Random House, 2007)

Jessie Carney Smith, ed.

• Column: Is Obama the Last in a Long Line of Firsts?

John L. Smith

• Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn (Four Wall Eight Windows, 2001)

Ken Smith

• Shed: Poems 1980-2001 (Bloodaxe Books, 1969)

Martin Cruz Smith

• News: Martin Cruz Smith brings back Detective Arkady Renko in 'Stalin's Ghost'

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

• Love Her Madly (Henry Holt and Company, 2002)

Mary-Anne Tirone Smith

• She's Not There (Henry Holt & Company, 2003)

P.D. Smith

• Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon (St. Martin's, 2007)

Scott Smith

• The Ruins (Knopf, 2006)
• News: Scott Smith's novel 'The Ruins' comes to the big screen

Stephanie A. Smith

• Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Tom Rob Smith

• Child 44 (Grand Central, 2008)

Zadie Smith

• On Beauty (The Penguin Press, 2005)

Lee Smolin

• The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin

Lemony Snicket

• The End: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13 (HarperCollins, 2006)

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

• World Shores and Beaches: A Descriptive and Historical Guide to 50 Coastal Treasures (McFarland and Co., 2005)

John T. Soister

• Conrad Veidt on Screen (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002)

Norman Solomon

• War Made Easy

Rivka Solomon

• That Takes Ovaries! (Three Rivers Press, 2002)

Bob Sommer

• Where the Wind Blew (Wessex Collective, 2008)

Susan Sontag

• At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

William Souder

• A Plague of Frogs: Unraveling An Environmental Mystery (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

David Spaner

• Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North By Northwest (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004)

Scott Spencer

• A Ship Made of Paper (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2004)
• Willing (Ecco, 2008)

Wendy Spero

• Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs (Hudson Street Press, 2006)

Peter Spiegelman [Editor]

• Wall Street Noir (Akashic, 2007)

Peter Spielberg

• The Noctambulists & Other Fictions (Fiction Collective 2)

Yvonne Spielmann

• Video: The Reflexive Medium (The MIT Press, 2008)

Stephanie Spinner

• Quiver (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2002)

Bob Spitz

• The Beatles (Little, Brown, 2005)

Mark Spitzer

• Chum (Zoland Books, 2001)

Claudia Springer

• James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography (University of Texas, 2007)

Jane St. Anthony

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books

Wesley Stace

• Misfortune (Little, Brown, 2005)

Les Standiford

• Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army (Crown, 2008)

Olaf Stapledon

• Feature: Olaf Stapledon: Of His Time, and Others

Steven D. Stark

• Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World (HarperCollins, 2005)

David Starkey

• Living Blue in the Red States (Bison, 2007)

Ralph Steadman

• The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson and Me (Harcourt, 2006)

Matthew Stearns

• Daydream Nation (Continuum, 2007)

Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

• Critical Condition: How Healthcare in America Became Big Business-and Bad Medicine (Doubleday, 2004)

R. Grant Steen

• The Evolving Brain: The Known and the Unknown (Prometheus, 2007)

Karrine Steffans

• The Vixen Diaries (Grand Central, 2007)

Susan Steinberg

• The End of Free Love (Fiction Collective Two, 2003)

George Steiner

• My Unwritten Books (New Directions, 2008)

Jessica Stern

• Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2003)

David Henry Sterry

• Chicken, Self-portrait of a Young Man for Rent (Regan Books, 2002)

George Stevens, Jr.

• Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age: At the American Film Institute (Vintage, 2007)

Joseph E. Stiglitz

• Where Is the World Going, Mr. Stiglitz?

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda J. Bilmes

• The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W. W. Norton, 2008)

Rick J. Carlson and Gary Stimeling

• The Terrible Gift: The Brave New World of Genetic Medicine (Public Affairs Books, 2002)

Grant Stoddard

• Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert (Harper Perennial, 2007)

Matthew Stokoe

• High Life (Akashic, 2002)

Robert Stone

• Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (Ecco, 2007)

Randi Storch

• Red Chicago: American Communism and Its Grassroots, 1928-35 (University of Illinois Press, 2007)

Martha Stout, PhD

• The Sociopath Next Door (Broadway Books, 2006)

Laren Stover

• Bohemian Manifesto (Bulfinch Press, 2004)

Jon Stratton

• The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption (University of Illinois Press, 2001)

John Strausbaugh

• Rock 'til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia (Verso Books, 2001)

Mötley Crüe, with Neil Strauss

• The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (Regan Books (HarperCollins), 2001)

Neil Strauss

• The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Regan Books, 2005)

Bill Streever

• Saving Louisiana? the Battle for Coastal Wetlands (University Press of Mississipppi, 2001)

Michael Streissguth

• Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece (Da Capo, 2004)

Frank J. Dello Stritto

• A Quaint & Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore: The Mythology & History of Classic Horror Films (Cult Movies Press, 2003)

Jane Stromseth, David Wippman and Rosa Brooks

• Can Might Make Rights?: Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Phil Strongman

• Pretty Vacant:: A History of UK Punk (Chicago Review Press, 2008)

Marita Sturken

• Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Duke University Press, 2007)

Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave

• American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 2001)

Ned Sublette

• The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Lawrence Hill, 2008)

Danny Sugarman

• The Doors by The Doors by The Doors, with Ben Fong-Torres

Editors: Kasim Osman, Rahimatsah Amat and Surin Suksuwan

• Pearl of Perlis: Perlis State Park Guide (State of Perlis Forestry DepartmentKM2, Jalan Kaki Bukit01000 Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia)

Larry E. Sullivan

• Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-century America (Akashic, 2003)

Rosemary Sullivan

• Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession (Counterpoint Press, 2002)

Melanie Sumner

• The School of Beauty and Charm (Algonquin Books)

Indu Sundaresan

• The Feast of Roses (Atria Books, Simon and Schuster, 2003)
• The Twentieth Wife: A Novel (Pocket Books, 2002)

Manil Suri

• News: Suri's 'Shiva' a bold second step toward a Hindu god trilogy

Ron Suskind

• The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of its Enemies Since 9/11 (Simon & Schuster, 2006)

Elizabeth Swados

• My Depression: A Picture Book (Hyperion Books, 2005)

Aoibheann Sweeney

• Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking (Penguin, 2007)

Graham Swift

• Tomorrow (Knopf, 2007)

Patrick Symmes

• The Boys From Dolores: Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile (Pantheon, 2007)

Arthur Sze

• Quipu (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)

Ágnes Nemes Nagy, translated by George Szirtes

• The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004)