Books Archive: B

B As in Beirut

Author: Iman Humaydan Younes

: Max Weiss (Translator)

(Interlink, 2007)

• Review by Rachel Smucker

BOFFO!

Author: Peter Bart

(Miramax, 2006)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Babies by Design

Author: Ronald M. Green

(Yale University Press, 2007)

• Babies by Design by Ronald M. Green

Back When We Were Grownups

Author: Anne Tyler

(Alfred A. Knopf)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

Bad Blood

Author: Linda Fairstein

(Simon & Schuster, 2007)

• Review by Oline H. Cogdill

Bad Fads

Author: Mark A. Long

(ECW Press, 2002)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

The Bad Girl

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

: Edith Grossman (Translator)

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Bad Girls and Sick Boys

(Contemporary Art and CultureLinda S. Kauffman(University of California Press, 1998))

• Review by Ed Hatton

The Bad Guys Won

Author: Jeff Pearlman

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Robert McEvily

Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography

Author: Herb Boyd

(Atria, 2008)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

Baltimore

Author: Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden

(Spectra, 2007)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Bandits & Bibles

Author: Larry E. Sullivan

(Akashic, 2003)

• Review by Teresa DiFalco

Bandwagon Effects in High Technology Industries

Author: Jeffrey H. Rohlfs

(MIT Publishing, 2001)

• Review by John Biggs

Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

Author: Banksy

(Weapons of Mass Distraction, 2001)

• Feature: Identity Thief: “There’s Banksy”

Barney's Crew

Author: Sean Carswell, Art Fuentes (illustrator)

(Gorsky Press, 2005)

• Review by Daulton Dickey

Baseballissimo

Author: Dave Bidini

(McClelland & Stewart Ltd. (Canada), 2004)

• Review by Zachary Houle

Bat Boy Lives!the Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, and t

Author: David Perel and the editors of the Weekly World News

(Sterling Publishing, 2005)

• Review by Amar Pai

Batman Unmasked

Author: Will Brooker

(Continuum Books, 2000)

• Review by John G. Nettles

Be Mine

Author: Laura Kasischke

(Harcourt, 2007)

• Review by Marta Salij [Detroit Free Press]

Beasts of No Nation

Author: Uzodinma Iweala

(Harper Perennial, 2006)

• Review by Erin Frauenhofer
• Column: Ask an African

Beat Punks

Author: Victor Bockris

(Da Capo Press, 2000)

• Review by John G. Nettles

The Beatles Diary

Author: Barry Miles

(Omnibus Press)

• Review by Kevin Mathews

The Beatles and Philosophy

Author: Michael Baur and Steven Baur [Editors]

(Open Court, 2006)

• Review by Zeth Lundy

The Beatles

Author: Bob Spitz

(Little, Brown, 2005)

• Review by Zeth Lundy

Beautiful Children

Author: Charles Bock

(Random House, 2008)

• Review by Joy Tipping
• Review by Heather West

The Beauty of the Husband

Author: Anne Carson

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)

• Review by Carol W. LaForet

Beckham, Both Feet on the Ground

Author: David Beckham with Tom Watt

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

Becoming Eichmann

Author: David Cesarani

(Da Capo, 2007)

• Review by Mikita Brottman

Becoming Shakespeare

Author: Jack Lynch

(Walker & Company, 2007)

• Review by Glenn C. Altschuler

Becoming a Tiger

Author: Susan McCarthy

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Bed

Author: Tao Lin

(Melville House Publishing, 2007)

• Feature: Literature is Inside of Life Just Like a Tree is Inside of Life

The Bedside Book of Birds

Author: Graeme Gibson

(Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Bee Thousand

Author: Marc Woodworth

(Continuum Books, 2006)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now

Author: Peter Wood

(Encounter, 2007)

• Review by Glenn C. Altschuler

The Beforelife

Author: Franz Wright

(Alfred A.Knopf, 2001)

• Review by Steve Mueske

Beginner's Greek

Author: James Collins

(Little, Brown, 2008)

• Review by Diane Leach

Behind the Muse

Author: Bill DeMain

(Tiny Ripple Books, 2001)

• Review by Ben Varkentine

Behind the Screen

Author: William J. Mann

(Penguin USA, 2002)

• Review by Harry H. Long

Being Jordan

Author: Katie Price

(John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2004)

• Review by Rebecca Loncraine

Being Sugar Ray

Author: Kenneth Shropshire

(Basic Civitas, 2007)

• Review by Vernon Clark

Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares

Author: Gary D. Rhodes with Richard Sheffield

(Collectables Press, 2007)

• Review by David Sterritt

Belle and Sebastian

Author: Paul Whitelaw

(St. Martin's Griffin, 2005)

• Review by Robert Roose

Beneath the Roses

Author: Gregory Crewdson

(Abrams, 2008)

• Review by Jessica Reaves

The Best American Science Writing, 2004

Author: Dava Sobel, ed., and Jesse Cohen, series ed.

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Celia McClinton

The Best Game Ever

Author: Jim Reisler

(Carroll & Graf, 2007)

• Review by Nav Purewal

The Best Short Stories of Leslea Newman

Author: Leslea Newman

(Alyson Publications, 2003)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

Better Off

Author: Eric Brende

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Michael Sandlin

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Author: Atul Gawande, MD

(Metropolitan Books, 2007)

• Review by Robert Roose, MD

Between Two Rivers

Author: Nicholas Rinaldi

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

Between, Georgia

Author: Joshilyn Jackson

(Grand Central, 2007)

• Review by Leslie Joseph

Big Lonesome

Author: Jim Ruland

(Gorsky Press, 2005)

• Review by Phoebe Kate Foster

The Bill Monroe Reader

Author: Tom Ewing

(University of Illinois Press, 2000)

• Review by Chuck Hicks

Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess

Author: Barrett Seaman

(John Wiley & Sons, 2006)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

The Birds Are on Fire

Author: Kay Sloan

(Finishing Line Press, 2006)

• Review by Andy Fogle

The Birds of Heaven

Author: Peter Matthiessen

(North Point Press, 2001)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Birth of a Nation

Author: Aaron McGruder and Reginald Hudlin with illustrations by Kyle Baker

(Crown Publishers, 2004)

• Review by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

Birth of the Cool

Author: Lewis MacAdams

(The Free Press, 2001)

• Review by Simon Warner

A Bit on the Side

Author: William Trevor

(Penguin, 2005)

• Review by Elizabeth Gumport

The Bitch in the House

Author: Cathi Hanauer

(William Morrow, 2002)

• Review by Phoebe Kate Foster

The Black & White Book

Author: R.P. Moore

(Pocket Books, 2001)

• Review by Stephanie Dickison

Black Firsts: 4,000 Groundbreaking and Pioneering Historical Events

Author: Jessie Carney Smith, ed.

(Visible Ink Press, 2003)

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

Black Hat

Author: John Biggs

(Apress, 2004)

• Review by Thomas Scott McKenzie

Black Hole

Author: Charles Burns

(Pantheon, 2005)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

Author: Otto Penzler [editor]

(Vintage, 2007)

• Review by Peter Swanson

Black Space

Author: Adilifu Nama

(University of Texas Press, 2008)

• Review by May-lee Chai

Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans

Author: Jeffrey A. Brown

(University Press of Mississippi, 1969)

• Review by Davin Heckman

Black Swan Green

Author: David Mitchell

(Random House, 2006)

• Review by David Hunter

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

(Random House, 2007)

• Review by Frank Wilson

The Black Veil

Author: Rick Moody

(Little Brown & Company, 2002)

• Review by Paul McLeary

Black Virgin Mountain

Author: Larry Heinemann

(Doubleday, 2005)

• Review by Lisa Nuch Venbrux

Blackbodying

Author: Dimitri Nasrallah

(DC Books, 2004)

• Review by Andrea Belcham

The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York

Author: Joel Rose

(Norton, 2007)

• Review by David Hiltbrand

Blaze

Author: Richard Bachman

: Stephen King

(Scribner, 2007)

• Review by Rene Rodriguez

Bleed Into Me

Author: Stephen Graham Jones

(University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

• Review by Thomas Scott McKenzie

Blind Singer Joe's Blues

Author: Robert Love Taylor

(Southern Methodist University Press, 2006)

• Review by Claudia Smith Brinson

Blinking With Fists

Author: Billy Corgan

(Faber and Faber, 2004)

• Review by Andy Fogle

Bliss Street

Author: Kris Kenway

(Sceptre Press, 2003)

• Review by Sarah Tan

Blood Kin

Author: Ceridwen Dovey

(Atlantic, 2008)

• Review by David Pullar

Blood Orchid

Author: Charles Bowden

(North Point Press, 2002)

• Review by David Sanjek

The Blood of Flowers

Author: Anita Amirrezvani

(Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

• Review by Lara Killian

Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK

Author: Barr McClellan

(Hannover House, 2003)

• Review by Daulton Dickey

The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry

Author: Menna Elfyn & John Rowlands (editors)

(Bloodaxe Books, 2003)

• Review by REVIEWER

The Blue Guide to Indiana

Author: Michael Martone

(Fiction Collective 2, 2001)

• Review by John G. Nettles

Blue Hour

Author: Carolyn Forche

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Andy Fogle

Blue Latitudes

Author: Tony Horwitz

(Henry Holt and Company, 2002)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock and Roll

Author: Rick Coleman

(Da Capo, 2006)

• Review by Bill Gibron

Bluegrass Odyssey

Author: Carl Fleischhauer and Neil V. Rosenberg

(University of Illinois Press, 2001)

• Review by Wayne Brown

Boat Bastard

Author: Deborah van Rooyen

(ReganBooks, 2002)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin

Author: Marion Meade

(Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2004)

• Review by Samuel Carlisle

Bodies

Author: Jed Mercurio

(Jonathan Cape (UK); Random House/Vintage (AUS), 1969)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

The Body Artist

Author: Don DeLillo

(Scribner's, 2001)

• Review by Martha Kuhlman

Body Bizarre, Body Beautiful

Author: Nan McNab

(Simon and Schuster, 2001)

• Review by Erik Gamlem

Body Brokers

Author: Annie Cheney

(Broadway Books, 2006)

• Review by Bill Gibron

Body Piercing Saved My Life

Author: Andrew Beaujon

(Da Capo, 2006)

• Review by Whitney Strub

The Body

Author: Stephen King

(Penguin, 1999)

• Column: Standing by Stephen King

Boeing Versus Airbus

Author: John Newhouse

(Knopf, 2007)

• Review by David Greising

Bogie: A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart

Author: Richard Schickel and George Perry

(Thomas Dunne Books, 2006)

• Feature: Celebrating Bogie

Bohemian Manifesto

Author: Laren Stover

(Bulfinch Press, 2004)

• Review by Leslie Joseph

Bombay-london-new York

Author: Amitava Kumar

(Routledge, 2002)

• Review by Nigam Nuggehalli

The Bone Museum

Author: Wayne Grady

(Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Bones to Ashes

Author: Kathy Reichs

(Scribner, 2007)

• Review by Elizabeth Fox

The Book Against God

Author: James Wood

(Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003)

• Review by Sarah Tan

The Book of Air and Shadows

Author: Michael Gruber

(William Morrow, 2007)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

The Book of Dave

Author: Will Self

(Bloomsbury, 2006)

• Review by John Schacht

Book of Longing

Author: Leonard Cohen

(Ecco, 2006)

• Review by Gerry Donaghy

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice

Author: Allen Ginsberg

: Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan, eds.

(Da Capo, 2007)

• Feature: Allen Ginsberg: The Politics of Ecstasy

The Book of Portraiture

Author: Steve Tomasula

(Fiction Collective 2, 2006)

• Review by Erin Frauenhofer

The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems

Author: Djuna Barnes, edited with an introduction by Rebecca Loncraine

(Fyfield Books, 2003)

• Review by John Sears

The Book of Sharks

Author: Richard Ellis

(Knopf, reprint, 1989)

• Column: Predatory Nature

The Book of Trouble

Author: Ann Marlowe

(Harcourt, 2006)

• Review by Anne Yoder

The Book of the Courtier

Author: Baldassare Castiglione

(Dover (New edition), 2003)

• Column: Too Many Mirrors

Bookmark Now

Author: Kevin Smokler (editor)

(Basic Books, 2005)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

Boomsday

Author: Christopher Buckley

(Twelve Books, 2007)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

Boonville

Author: Robert Mailer Anderson

(Perennial, 2003)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

Border Film Project

Author: Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado, and Brett Huneycutt

(Harry N. Abrams, 2007)

• Review by Chris Catania

Born Losers

Author: Scott A. Sandage

(Harvard University Press, 2005)

• Review by Michael Sandlin

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Author: Steve Martin

(Scribner, 2007)

• Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years by Michael Palin
• Review by Levi Asher

Born Yesterday

Author: Gordon Burn

(Faber and Faber, 2008)

• Review by Michael Noble

Born of the Fourth of July

Author: Ron Kovic

(Akashic Books, 2005)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Born to Run: The Unseen Photos

Author: Eric Meola

(Insight Editions, 2006)

• Born To Run by Eric Meola

Borrowed Dress

Author: Cathy Colman

(The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001)

• Review by Michelle Reale

Boulevard

Author: Jim Grimsley

(Alongquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

Bound and Gagged

(Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in AmericaLaura Kipnis(Duke University Press, 1999))

• Review by Mark Zeltner

The Boy Detective Fails

Author: Joe Meno

(Akashic Books, 2006)

• Review by Erin Frauenhofer

Boy Still Missing

Author: John Searles

(Perennial, 2002)

• Review by Lanny Gilbert

The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock and Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling

Author: Mitch Myers

(HarperCollins, 2007)

• Review by Jodie Janella Keith

The Boy on the Bus

Author: Deborah Schupack

(The Free Press, 2003)

• Review by Sarah Tan

Boygenius

Author: Yongsoo Park

(Akashic Books [The Urban Surreal Series], 2002)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

The Boys From Dolores: Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile

Author: Patrick Symmes

(Pantheon, 2007)

• Review by Enrique Fernandez

The Bradbury Chronicles

Author: Sam Weller

(William Morrow, 2005)

• Review by Rebecca Onion

The Brain That Changes Itself

Author: Norman Doidge

(Penguin/Viking, 2007)

• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by No

Brand New China

Author: Jing Wang

(Harvard University Press, 2008)

• Review by Rachel Smucker

Break, Blow, Burn

Author: Camille Paglia

(Pantheon, 2006)

• Review by Mark Andreottola

Breaking the Slump

Author: Charles C. Alexander

(Columbia University Press, 2002)

• Review by Andy Fogle

Breath and Bones

Author: Susann Cokal

(Unbridled Books, 2005)

• Review by Megan Milks

The Bride Stripped Bare

Author: Anonymous

(Fourth Estate, 2004)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Bridge of Sighs

Author: Richard Russo

(Knopf, 2007)

• Review by Matthew Fiander

The Brief History of the Dead

Author: Kevin Brockmeier

(Pantheon, 2006)

• Review by Gerry Donaghy

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Author: Junot Diaz

(Riverhead Books/Penguin, 2007)

• Review by Carlin Romano

Bright Earth

Author: Philip Ball

(Farar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002)

• Review by John Biggs

The British Working Class in Postwar Film

Author: Philip Gillett

(Manchester University Press, 2003)

• Review by Kevin Redhouse

Broadway, the Golden Years

Author: Robert Emmet Long

(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001)

• Review by Ben Varkentine

Broken By the Rain

Author: Felix Cheong

(FirstFruits Publishing, 2003)

• Review by Clarissa Lee

Bronx Biannual

Author: Miles Marshall Lewis [Editor]

(Akashic Books, 2007)

• Review by Rachel Smucker

The Brooklyn Follies

Author: Paul Auster

(Henry Holt, 2005)

• Review by Zachary Houle

Brother, I'm Dying

Author: Edwidge Danticat

(Knopf, 2007)

• Review by Michael Upchurch

Brotherhood of the Bomb

Author: Gregg Herken

(Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2002)

• Review by Nigam Nuggehalli

Brothers, Boyfriends & Other Criminal Minds

Author: April Lurie

(Delacorte, 2007)

• Review by Katie Haegele

Bruce Springsteen On Tour: 1968-2005

Author: Dave Marsh

(Bloomsbury, 2006)

• Born To Run by Eric Meola

Bullshit and Philosophy

Author: Various

: ed. by Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch

(Open Court, 2006)

• Column: High-Minded Bullshit
• Column: Cultural Meanings in America Make Benefit Glorious Bank Accounts of Creationists

The Buried Book

Author: David Damrosch

(Henry Holt & Company, 2007)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

Burn

Author: Jennifer Natalya Fink

(Suspect Thoughts Press, 2003)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

Burning Bright

Author: Tracy Chevalier

(Dutton, 2007)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

Burning In

Author: Mireille Juchau

(Giramondo, 2007)

• Review by Ella Mudie

Burroughs Live

Author: Sylvere Lotringer

(Semiotext(e), distributed by The MIT Press, 2002)

• Review by John G. Nettles

Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey

Author: Isabel Fonseca

(Vintage, 1996)

• Column: Journeymen

The Business of Books

Author: Andre Schiffrin

(Verso Books, 2000)

• Review by Newley Purnell

But Enough About Me

Author: Jancee Dunn

(HarperCollins, 2006)

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books

The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir

Author: Suzanne Portnoy

(Virgin Books, 2006)

• Review by Patrick Schabe

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

Author: Gao Xingjian

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Deirdre Day-MacLeod