Books Archive: W

Farouq Wadi

• Homes of the Heart: A Ramallah Chronicle (Interlink Books, 2006)

Daniel Wagner

• A Movie... and a Book (Vintage, 2005)

Elisa Wald

• Holding Fire, a Love Story (Context Books, 2001)

Gayle F. Wald

• Feature: Sister Rosetta Tharpe got rock rolling long before Elvis

Michael Walker

• Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood (Faber & Faber, 2006)

Paul Robert Walker

• The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World (William Morrow, 2002)

Valerie Taylor, Afterward by Lisa Walker

• The Girls in 3-b (Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2003)

Mick Wall

• W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose (St. Martin's, 2008)

Daniel Wallace

• Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician: A Novel (Doubleday, 2007)

David Foster Wallace

• Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (W.W. Norton, 2003)

Jonathan Goldstein and Max Wallace

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Jim Walsh

• The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History (Voyageur, 2007)

Pat Walsh

• 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might (Penguin, 2005)

Annie Wang

• The People's Republic of Desire (Harper Paperbacks, 2006)

Jing Wang

• Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Xiaobo Wang

• Wang in Love and Bondage: Three Novellas by Wang Xiaobo (State University of New York, 2007)

Sarah Wardle

• Fields Away (Bloodaxe Books, 2003)

Louise Wareham

• Since You Ask (Akashic Books, 2004)

McKenzie Wark

• A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press, 2004)
• Gamer Theory (Harvard University Press, 2007)

Matthew Warner

• The Organ Donor (Double Dragon eBooks)

Catherine A. Warren and Mary Douglas Vavrus

• American Cultural Studies (University of Illinois Press, 2002)

Harriet A. Washington

• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday, 2007)

Bruce Watson

• News: Book, DVD put spotlight on executions of Sacco and Vanzetti

David Beckham with Tom Watt

• Beckham, Both Feet on the Ground: An Autobiography (HarperCollins, 2003)

Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks, Ben J. Wattenberg

• The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000 (AEI Books, 2000)

Mary Anne Weaver

• Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

Roger Sweet and David Wecker

• Mastering the Universe: He-man and the Rise and Fall of a Billion-dollar Idea (Emmis Books, 2005)

Steve Weinberg

• Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller (W. W. Norton, 2008)

Eric Weiner

• News: Author searching for happiness around the world

Jennifer Weiner

• News: Not just for women: 'It's strange to think men have abandoned fiction'

Tim Weiner

• Feature: A Lost Cause: Tim Weiner's History of the C.I.A.

Marc Weingarten

• The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism (Crown, 2005)

Eric Weisbard

• This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive At Experience Music Project (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Alan Weisman

• The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007)

Casey Kait and Stephen Weiss

• Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley (Regan Books, 2002)

Benjamin Weissman

• Headless (Akashic, 2004)

Sam Weller

• The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (William Morrow, 2005)

Sheila Weller

• Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria, 2008)

Jann S. Wenner and Corey Seymour

• Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson (Little, Brown, 2007)

Gao Wenqian

• Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary (PublicAffairs, 2007)

Darren Wershler-Henry

• The Iron Whim (Cornell University Press, 2007)

Barry Werth

• 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us The Government We Have Today (Nan A. Talese, 2006)

Danny Goldberg, Victor Goldberg and Robert Greenwald, forward by Cornel West

• It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America After September 11 (Akashic Books, 2002)

Paul West

• My Father's War: A Memoir (McPherson, 2005)

Francis Wheen

• How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (Public Affairs, 2005)

Michael C. White

• A Dream of Wolves (Perennial, 2002)

Colson Whitehead

• Apex Hides the Hurt (Doubleday, 2006)

J. J. Long and Anne Whitehead

• W. G. Sebald - a Critical Companion (Edinburgh University Press, 2004)

Paul Whitelaw

• Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story (St. Martin's Griffin, 2005)

Alan J. Whiticker

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books

Walt Whitman [ed. Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler]

• Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times (Duke University Press, 2007)

Christine Wicker

• Not in Kansas Anymore: Dark Arts, Sex Spells, Money Magic, and Other Things Your Neighbors Aren’t Telling You (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006)

Marianne Wiggins

• The Shadow Catcher (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

Michelle Wildgen

• You're Not You (Thomas Dunne Books, 2006)

Cassandra Wilkinson

• Don't Panic: Nearly Everything Is Better Than You Think (Pluto Press Australia, 2007)

Bett Williams

• The Wrestling Party (Alyson Publications, 2003)

Craig A. Williams

• Mom, Have You Seen My Leather Pants?: The Tale of a Teen Rock Wannabe Who Almost Was (Three Rivers, 2007)

Gilda Williams

• The Gothic: Documents of Contemporary Art (MIT, 2007)

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  As this volume makes clear, there's nothing new about the Gothic culture, which goes back, well, to the Goths.

   

Richard Williams

• The Animator's Survival Kit (Faber and Faber, 2001)

Saul Williams

• The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-hop (MTV Books, 2006)

Wendy Williams, Robert Whitcomb

• Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound (PublicAffairs, 2007)

Tim Willocks

• The Religion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

Garry Wills

• What Paul Meant (2006)

Miklós Radnóti, translated by George Gömöri and Clive Wilmer

• Forced March (Enitharmon Books, 2003)

A. N. Wilson

• After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)

Charles Reagan Wilson

• Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis (University of Georgia, 2007)

Cintra Wilson

• A Massive Swelling. Celebrity Re-examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease (Penguin, 2001)

Derek Wilson

• Charlemagne (Doubleday, 2006)

Douglas L. Wilson

• Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Knopf, 2006)

E.O. Wilson

• The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (W.W. Norton & Co., 2006)

Emma Wilson

• Cinema's Missing Children (Columbia University Press (US), 2003)

Eric G. Wilson

• The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mullholland Dr. (Continuum Books, 2007)

Jonathan Wilson

• Marc Chagall (Schocken Books/Nextbook, 2007)

Sloan Wilson

• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002)

Christine Wiltz

• The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld (Da Capo Press)

Simon Winchester

• A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (HarperCollins, 2005)
• Krakota: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (HarperCollins, 2003)

Jacqueline Winspear

• News: An interview with Jacqueline Winspear, creator of Maisie Dobbs mysteries

Jeanette Winterson

• Feature: Jeanette Winterson

Ruth R. Wisse

• The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy

Peter Woit

• The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin

Maryanne Wolf

• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (HarperCollins, 2007)

Tom Wolfe

• I Am Charlotte Simmons (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004)
• News: Wolfe offers no new scoop on his next book at Miami 'conversation'
• News: For his next novel, Tom Wolfe samples Miami’s complexity

Tobias Wolff

• Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Knopf, 2008)

Douglas Wolk

• Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean (Da Capo, 2007)

James Wood

• The Book Against God (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003)

Peter Wood

• A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (Encounter, 2007)

Thomas Mann, Translated by John E. Woods

• The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library, 2005)

Chris Woodstra, John Bush, Stephen Thomas Erlewine

• All Music Guide Required Listening: Classic Rock / Old School Rap and Hip-Hop / Contemporary Country

Bob Woodward

• State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (Simon and Schuster, 2006)

Marc Woodworth

• Bee Thousand (Continuum Books, 2006)

Dan Woog

• Jocks 2: Coming Out to Play (Alyson Publications, 2002)

Benjamin Woolley

• The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Theodore Worozbyt

• A Unified Theory of Light (Dream Horse Press, 2006)

TJ Wray

• Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When An Adult Brother or Sister Dies (Three Rivers Press, 2003)

Bradford W. Wright

• Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Franz Wright

• The Beforelife (Alfred A.Knopf, 2001)

Jonathan Wright

• God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue and Power - a History of the Jesuits (Image Books, 2005)

A. H. M. Scholtz (translated by Chris van Wyk)

• A Place Called Vatmaar (Kwela Books, 2000)

Michel Houellebecq (Translated by Frank Wynne)

• The Elementary Particles (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000)
• The Elementary Particles (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000)