Books Archive: C

Call Me Crazy

Author: Anne Heche

(Washington Square Press, 1969)

• Review by Kim Diorio

The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

Author: Louis Theroux

(Da Capo Press, 2007)

• Review by Megan Milks

The Camera My Mother Gave Me

Author: Susanna Kaysen

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)

• Review by Stephanie Dickison

Camus & Sartre

Author: Ronald Aronson

(The University of Chicago Press, 2004)

• Review by Daulton Dickey

Can Might Make Rights?

Author: Jane Stromseth, David Wippman and Rosa Brooks

(Cambridge University Press, 2006)

• Review by Mark Yost

Can't Be Satisfied. the Life and Times of Muddy Waters

Author: Robert Gordon

(Little, Brown, 2002)

• Review by David Sanjek

Candy

Author: Mian Mian

(Little, Brown & Company, 2003)

• Review by Chris Gage

Cape Wind

Author: Wendy Williams, Robert Whitcomb

(PublicAffairs, 2007)

• Review by J. Lee

Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story

Author: Kim Powers

(Carroll & Graff, 2007)

• Review by Phoebe Kate Foster

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam

Author: Paul Clayton

(St. Martin's Press, 2004)

• Review by Christine Forte

Carpe Diem: Put a Little Latin in Your Life

Author: Harry Mount

(Hyperion, 2007)

• Review by Frank Wilson

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

Author: Steve Jacobson

(Lawrence Hill Books, 2007)

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

Casanova in Bolzano

Author: Sándor Márai

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)

• Review by Lisa Nuch Venbrux

The Case Against Perfection

Author: Michael J. Sandel

(Harvard University Press, 2007)

• Babies by Design by Ronald M. Green

Case Histories

Author: Kate Atkinson

(Little, Brown and Company, 2004)

• Review by Lisa Nuch Venbrux

The Case for Literature

Author: Gao Xingjian

(Yale University Press, 2007)

• Review by Carlin Romano

The Case of California

Author: Laurence Rickels

(University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

• Review by Aaron Beebe

The Castle in the Forest

Author: Norman Mailer

(Random House, 2007)

• Review by Carlin Romano

Catch a Wave

Author: Peter Ames Carlin

(Rodale Books, 2006)

• Review by Bill Gibron

The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists

Author: Gregory Curtis

(Knopf, 2006)

• Review by William Alfred Kern

Cecil B. Demille's Hollywood

Author: Robert S. Birchard

(The University Press of Kentucky, 2004)

• Review by Lary Wallace

Celebrity Detox

Author: Rosie O'Donnell

(Grand Central, 2007)

• Review by Leigh H. Edwards

Cell

Author: Stephen King

(Scribner, 2006)

• Review by Bill Gibron

Censored Hollywood

Author: Frank Miller

(Turner, 1994)

• Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2

Center Square

Author: Steve Wilson and Joe Florenski

(Advocate Books, 2005)

• Review by Dave Howell

The Central Liberal Truth

Author: Lawrence E. Harrison

(Oxford University Press, 2006)

• Review by Vince Carducci

A Century of Films

Author: Derek Malcolm

(Palgrave Books, 2001)

• Review by Maurice Bottomley

A Certain Chemistry

Author: Mil Millington

(Villard, 2004)

• Review by Zachary Houle

A Changed Man

Author: Francine Prose

(HarperCollins, 2005)

• Review by Anne K. Yoder

The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, from the Marne to Iraq

Author: Martin Van Creveld

(Presidio Press, 2007)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants

Author: Jaed Coffin

(Da Capo, 2008)

• Review by Mark W. Adams & Carolyn W. Fanelli

Charity Girl

Author: Michael Lowenthal

(Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

• Review by Claudia Smith Brinson

Charlatan

Author: Pope Brock

(Crown, 2008)

• Review by Rick Kogan

Charlemagne

Author: Derek Wilson

(Doubleday, 2006)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life

Author: Linda H. Davis

(Random House, 2006)

• Review by Michael Harrington

Charlie Big Potatoes

Author: Phil Robinson

(Regan Books, 2003)

• Review by James Oliphant

Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace

Author: Noah Kerner and Gene Pressman

(Simon and Schuster, 2007)

• Review by Kai Bandele

Chasing Elvis

Author: Glenn P. Marcel

(The Invisible College Press, 2004)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

Chasing the Flame

Author: Samantha Power

(Penguin, 2008)

• News: Plenty of issues to chase for former Obama adviser

The Chastening

Author: Paul Blustein

(Public Affairs Books, 2001)

• Review by D. R. Peak

Chaucer's Queer Nation

Author: Glenn Burger

(University of Minnesota Press, 2003)

• Review by Natalie Hope McDonald

Chaucer

Author: Peter Ackroyd

(Nan A. Talese, 2005)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

Cheat and Charmer

Author: Elizabeth Frank

(Random House, 2004)

• Review by Anne K. Yoder

Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies

Author: Brian Coleman

(Villard, 2007)

• Column: Now, Check the Method

Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President

Author: Stephen F. Hayes

(HarperCollins, 2007)

• Review by Craig Gilbert

The Chess Set in the Mirror

Author: Massimo Bontempelli

: Sto Estelle Gilson

(Paul Dry Books, 2007)

• Review by Katie Haegele

Chewing Gum

Author: Michael Redclift

(Routledge, 2004)

• Review by Olly Zanetti

Chicken, Self-portrait of a Young Man for Rent

Author: David Henry Sterry

(Regan Books, 2002)

• Review by D. R. Peak

Chienne De Guerre

Author: Anne Nivat (Susan Darnton, translator)

(PublicAffairs, 2001)

• Review by Karen Zarker

A Child Called "it"

Author: Dave Pelzer

(Health Communications)

• Review by Michael Abernethy

The Children of Hurin

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

(Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

• Review by Tish Wells

China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood

Author: Jeff Gammage

(Morrow/HarperCollins, 2007)

• Review by Huntly Collins

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

Author: Paul Malmont

(Simon & Schuster, 2006)

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books
• Review by Mary McCoy

Choke

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

(Doubleday & Co., 2001)

• Review by Kevin Devine

Chris Marker

Author: Nora M. Alter

(University of Illinois Press, 2006)

• Review by David Sterritt

Christine Falls

Author: Benjamin Black

(Henry Holt & Company, 2007)

• The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
• Review by Frank Wilson
• Review by Diane Leach

A Christmas Story

Author: Jean Shepherd

(Broadway, 2003)

• Column: The Good Shepherd

Chum

Author: Mark Spitzer

(Zoland Books, 2001)

• Review by John G. Nettles

Cinema of Cruelty

Author: Arudre Bazin

(Seaver, 1982)

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

The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow - Hollywood Transgressor

Author: Deborah Jermyn and Sean Redmond, editors

(Wallflower Press, 2003)

• Review by Kirsty Fairclough

Cinema's Missing Children

Author: Emma Wilson

(Columbia University Press (US), 2003)

• Review by James Oliphant

Circling Dixie

Author: Helen Taylor

(Rutgers University Press)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

City in the Sky

Author: James Glanz and Eric Lipton

(Times Books, 2003)

• Review by Mark Dionne

City of Secrets

Author: John Follain

(William Morrow, 2003)

• Review by Claire Zulkey

Clever Maids

Author: Valerie Paradiz

(Basic Books, 2005)

• Review by Kathryn Atwood

Coal Black Horse

Author: Robert Olmstead

(Algonquin, 2008)

• Review by Matthew Fiander

Cobwebs and Whispers

Author: Scott Thomas

(Delirium Books, 2001)

• Review by Matt Duvall

The Cocaine Chronicles

Author: Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon

(Akashic Books, 2005)

• Review by Leslie Joseph

The Cold Six Thousand

Author: James Ellroy

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)

• Review by John G. Nettles

The Coldest Winter

Author: David Halberstam

(Hyperion, 2007)

• Review by Glenn Garvin
• Review by Carlin Romano

Collected Poems 3

Author: Peter Reading

(Bloodaxe Books, 2003)

• Review by John Sears

Colonel Tom Parker

Author: James L. Dickerson

(Cooper Square Press, 2001)

• Review by John G. Nettles

The Colonel's Dream

Author: Charles W. Chesnutt

(Harlem Moon, 2005)

• Review by Kim Anderson Ray

Color Monitors

Author: Martin Kevorkian

(Cornell University Press, 2006)

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books

Color of the Sea

Author: John Hamamura

(Thomas Dunne Books, 2006)

• Review by Kerry Kumabe

The Colossal P.t. Barnum Reader

Author: Phineas T. Barnum; James W. Cook (editor)

(University of Illinois Press, 2005)

• Review by Melissa Fischer

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

Author: Ben Ratliff

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

• Review by Chris Vognar

Come As You Are

Author: Michael Azerrad

(Main Street, 1993)

• Kurt Cobain

Come Hell or High Water

Author: Michael Eric Dyson

(Perseus Books, 2006)

• Review by Jonathan L. Walton

Comedy at the Edge

Author: Richard Zoglin

(Bloomsbury, 2008)

• Review by Jenny Carlson

Comfortably Numb

Author: Mark Blake

(Da Capo, 2008)

• Feature: Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

Comic Art 9

: Todd Hignite, Editor

(Buenaventura, 2007)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

Comic Book Nation

Author: Bradford W. Wright

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

• Review by Matthew Wolf-Meyer

Comics & Ideology

Author: Matthew McAllister, Edward Sewell, and Ian Gordon

(Peter Lang Publishing, 2001)

• Review by Matthew Wolf-Meyer

Company

Author: Max Barry

(Vintage (US) / Scribe (Australia), 2007)

• Review by David Pullar

  PopMatters Pick

  

  It's a curious blend of a book: a confection that manages to provoke deep reflection; a contrived, superficial novel with something important to say.

   

The Company: A Novel of the CIA

Author: Robert Littell

(Penguin, 2007)

• Review by Chris McCann

The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

Author: César Vallejo

: Clayton Eshleman (translator)

(University of California Press, 2007)

• Review by John Timpane

  Featured Article

  

  Today Vallejo, the bard of Peru, has a place among the finest of his century's poets.

   

The Complete Short Novels

Author: Anton Chekhov; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

(Vintage Classics, 2005)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold

Author: Kate Bernheimer

(Fiction Collective Two/Black Ice Books, 2001)

• Review by Phoebe Kate Foster

The Complex

Author: Nick Turse

(Metropolitan, 2008)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

A Complicated Kindness

Author: Miriam Toews

(Counterpoint Press, 2004)

• Review by Lisa Nuch Venbrux

Complications

Author: Atul Gawande

(Henry Holt & Company, 2002)

• Review by Claire Zulkey

Condensed Knowledge

Author: Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, and Elizabeth Hunt

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Author: Laurie Viera Rigler

(Dutton Adult, 2007)

• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

Confronting the New Conservatism

Author: Michael J. Thompson [Editor]

(New York University Press, 2007)

• Review by Vince Carducci

The Conjurer

Author: Cordelia Frances Biddle

(Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 2007)

• Review by Edward Pettit

Conrad Veidt on Screen

Author: John T. Soister

(McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002)

• Review by Harry H. Long

The Conscience of a Liberal

Author: Paul Krugman

(W. W. Norton, 2007)

• Column: Paul Krugman's 'The Conscience of a Liberal'

Conservatize Me

Author: John Moe

(William Morrow, 2006)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Consolation

Author: Michael Redhill

(Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

• Review by Lisa Van de Ven

Conspiracy Culture

Author: Peter Knight

(Routledge, 2001)

• Review by Martha Kuhlman

Conspiracy of Fools

Author: Kurt Eichenwald

(Broadway, 2005)

• Review by Bill Gibron

Consumed

Author: Benjamin R. Barber

(W. W. Norton, 2007)

• Column: Inevitable Consumption

A Consumer's Republic

Author: Lizabeth Cohen

(Knopf, 2003)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Consuming Kids

Author: Susan Linn

(Anchor, 2005)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Consuming the American Landscape

Author: John Ganis

(Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2003)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Contested Lands

Author: Sumantra Bose

(Harvard University, 2007)

• Review by Barry Lenser

A Continent for the Taking

Author: Howard W. French

(Knopf, 2004)

• Review by Lester Pimentel

Continued

Author: Piotr Sommer; translated by Halina Janod (and 13 others)

(Wesleyan University Press (US); Bloodaxe Books (UK), 2005)

• Review by Andy Fogle

Contraptions

Author: Heath Robinson

(Duckworth Overlook, 2007)

• Review by Michael Antman

Contrary to Popular Belief

Author: Joey Green

(Broadway Books, 2005)

• Review by Bill Gibron

Convergence Culture

Author: Henry Jenkins

(New York University Press, 2006)

• Review by Steven Horowitz

Conversations With Richard Ford

Author: Huey Guagliardo, Editor

(University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

• Review by Mark Dionne

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age

Author: George Stevens, Jr.

(Vintage, 2007)

• Review by David Sterritt

The Conversations

Author: Michael Ondaatje

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)

• Review by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

Cool It

Author: Bjørn Lomborg

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)

• Feature: A Cooler Head Prevails

Cool for Cats

Author: Jessica Adams

(Black Swan (UK); Pan MacMillan (Australia), 1969)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Cool for You

Author: Eileen Myles

(Soft Skull Press, 2000)

• Review by j.serpico

Copping Free

Author: Matthew Carnahan

(Villard, 2006)

• Review by Matt Cibula

A Cormac Mccarthy Companion

Author: Edwin T. Arnold & Dianne C. Luce, eds.

(University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

• Review by John Sears

Cornbread Nation 4

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

(University of Georgia Press, 2008)

• Review by Carolyn Fanelli

  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.

   

The Cornelius Quartet

Author: Michael Moorcock

(Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001)

• Review by Matthew Wolf-Meyer

Corporate Warriors

Author: P. W. Singer

(Cornell University Press, 2008)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

  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.

   

The Corrections

Author: Jonathan Franzen

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)

• Review by Steve Mueske

Couldn't Keep It to Myself

Author: Wally Lamb

(Regan Books, 2003)

• Review by Kathryn C. DeVito

Country of Cold

Author: Kevin Patterson

(Nan A. Talese, An Imprint of Doubleday, A Division of Random House, 2003)

• Review by Nicholas Hayes

The Courage of Strangers

Author: Jeri Laber

(Public Affairs, 2002)

• Review by Nigam Nuggehalli

Courting Equality

Author: Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn

(Beacon Press, 2007)

• Review by Megan Milks

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

Author: Kenji Yoshino

(Random House, 2007)

• Review by Kerry Kumabe

Coyote Waits

Author: Tony Hillerman

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Harry H. Long

A Crack in the Edge of the World

Author: Simon Winchester

(HarperCollins, 2005)

• Review by Zachary Houle

Cradle to Cradle

Author: William McDonough and Michael Braungart

(North Point Press, 2002)

• Review by Celia S. McClinton

The Crash of Hennington

Author: Patrick Ness

(HarperCollins Canada, 2003)

• Review by Sarah Tan

Crazy Rhythm

Author: Leonard Garment

(Da Capo Press, 2001)

• Review by Matt Cibula

Crazy for God

Author: Frank Schaeffer

(Da Capo, 2007)

• Review by Christopher Martin

Cream

Author: Dave Thompson

(Virgin Books, 2005)

• Review by Thomas Scott McKenzie

The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth

Author: E.O. Wilson

(W.W. Norton & Co., 2006)

• Review by Robert Roose, MD

Crimes Against Nature

Author: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Samuel Carlisle

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business -- and Bad Medicine

Author: Donald L. Barlett / James B. Steele

(DoubleDay, 2004)

• Column: Read Rage

Critical Condition

Author: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

(Doubleday, 2004)

• Review by Shandy Casteel

Crocodile Soup

Author: Julia Darling

(Ecco, 2002)

• Review by Jolie Braun

The Crocodile and the Crane

Author: Arthur Rosenfeld

(YMAA Fiction, 2007)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

Crooked Little Vein

Author: Warren Ellis

(HarperCollins, 2007)

• Review by Shawn O'Rourke

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Author: Jennifer Fields [Garp's mother?]

(Perennial, 1969)

• Review by John Biggs

Crumbtown

Author: Joe Connelly

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)

• Review by James Oliphant

The Crush

Author: Sandra Brown

(Warner Books, 2002)

• Review by Lori A. May

Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

Author: Peter Ludlow, editor

(MIT Press, 2001)

• Review by Patrick Schabe

The Cult of Personality

Author: Annie Murphy Paul

(Simon & Schuster, 2004)

• Review by Lary Wallace

The Cult of the Amateur

Author: Andrew Keen

(Currency/Doubleday, 2007)

• Review by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

Author: Clive James

(W. W. Norton, 2007)

• Les Enfants Terribles
• Review by Michael Buening

The Culture Code

Author: Clotaire Rapaille

(Broadway Books, 2007)

• Review by Graziella Jackson

The Culture Code

Author: Clotaire Rapaille

(Broadway Books, 2006)

• Review by Graziella Jackson

Curious Minds

Author: John Brockman (editor)

(Vintage Books, 2005)

• Review by Stephen Rauch

Cursed From Birth

Author: David Ohle

(Soft Skull Press, 2006)

• Review by David Sterritt

The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts

Author: Milan Kundera

(HarperCollins, 2007)

• Review by Carlin Romano

Cyberselfish

Author: Paulina Borsook

(Public Affairs Books, 2000)

• Review by Paul T. Riddell

The Cycles of American History

Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

(Mariner Books, 1999)

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

Cylons in America

Author: Tiffany Potter, C. W. Marshall [Editors]

(Continuum, 2007)

• Review by May-lee Chai