Books Archive: D

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004

Author: Mickey Hart

(Da Capo, 2004)

• Review by Justin Cober-Lake

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006

Author: Guest Editor: Mary Gaitskill / Series Editor: Daphne Carr

(Da Capo, 2006)

• Review by Raquel Laneri

The Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

(Doubleday, 2003)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

Dacapo Best Music Writing 2005

Author: J.T. LeRoy (guest editor) and Paul Bresnick (series editor)

(Da Capo, 2005)

• Review by Dan Nishimoto

Daddy's Girls

Author: Tasmina Perry

(Touchstone, 2007)

• Review by Kristin Granero

Dads, Dames, Demons, and a Dwarf

Author: Mancow Muller with John Calkins

(Regan Books, 2003)

• Review by Daulton Dickey

Dance of Days

Author: Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins

(Akashic, 2003)

• Review by Chris Gage

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

(Metropolitan Books, 2007)

• Review by Jackie Loohauis [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

Dancing to 'Almendra'

Author: Mayra Montero

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

• Review by Enrique Fernandez

A Dangerous Age

Author: Ellen Gilchrist

(Algonquin, 2008)

• Review by Diane Leach

The Dangerous Book for Boys

Author: Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden

(HarperCollins, 2007)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

Dangerous Nation

Author: Robert Kagan

(Knopf, 2006)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Daniel Isn't Talking

Author: Marti Leimbach

(Nan A. Talese, 2006)

• Review by Graziella Jackson

The Dark Page

Author: Kevin Johnson

(Oak Knoll Press, 2007)

• Review by David Sterritt

The Dark Side of the Moon

Author: John Harris

(Da Capo, 2005)

• Review by John Bergstrom

Dark Universe

Author: William F. Nolan

(Stealth Press)

• Review by Matt Duvall

Darker Than the Deepest Sea

Author: Trevor Dann

(Da Capo, 2006)

• Review by Sarah Feldman

The Darkest Clearing

Author: Brian Railsback

(High Sierra Books, 2004)

• Review by Rebecca Onion

Darkness Divided

Author: John Shirley

(Stealth Press, 2001)

• Review by Patrick Schabe

Darkwitch Rising

Author: Sara Douglass

(Tor (US) / HarperCollins (Australia), 2005)

• Review by Deborah Jane Cooper

The Darling

Author: Russell Banks

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Stephen M. Deusner

Darwinizing Culture

Author: Robert Aunger (editor)

(Oxford University Press, 2001)

• Review by Matthew Wolf-Meyer

Dave Matthews Band

Author: Morgan Delancey

(ECW Press, 2001)

• Review by Steve Mueske

The Dawn of Indian Music in the West

Author: Peter Lavezzoli

(Continuum, 2007)

• Column: New Ways to Breathe

The Day of Battle

Author: Rick Atkinson

(Henry Holt & Co., 2007)

• Review by Thomas Peele

  Featured Article

  

  Relying on military histories and documents, the private letters and diaries of generals and front-line soldiers, news accounts and interviews, Atkinson creates a seamless, stunning narrative that is the equal of An Army at Dawn.

   
• Review by Desmond Ryan

  Featured Article

  

  Atkinson's earlier work, An Army at Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2003, and, if anything, The Day of Battle is even more engrossing.

   

The Day the World Came to Town

Author: Jim DeFede

(Regan Books, 2003)

• Review by Teri A. McIntyre

Daydream Nation

Author: Matthew Stearns

(Continuum, 2007)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

The Days of the Bitter End

Author: Jack Engelhard

(ComteQ Communications, 2001)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

Dead Boys

Author: Richard Lange

(Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

• Review by Matthew Fiander

The Dead Emcee Scrolls

Author: Saul Williams

(MTV Books, 2006)

• Review by Michael Frauenhofer

Dead Ringer

Author: Lisa Scottoline

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Lanny Gilbert

Deadlock

Author: David Von Drehle and The Political Staff of the Washington Post

(PublicAffairs Books, 2001)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

The Deadly Space Between

Author: Patricia Duncker

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Jonathan Messinger

Dean and Me (a Love Story)

Author: Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan

(Doubleday, 2005)

• Review by Bill Gibron

Dear Jane Austen

Author: Patrice Hannon

(Plume, 2007)

• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

Death Metal Music

Author: Natalie J. Purcell

(McFarland & Company, Inc.)

• Review by Andy Fogle

Death Sentence

Author: Brian Garfield

(Book Surge, 2007)

• Feature: Historian: Interview with Brian Garfield

Death by Rodrigo

Author: Ron Liebman

(Simon & Schuster, 2007)

• Review by Richard Hellinga

Death of a Dissident

Author: Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko

(Simon & Schuster, 2007)

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

Death's Showcase

Author: Ariella Azoulay

(The MIT Press, 2003)

• Review by Robyn Sassen

Dedication

Author: Emma McLaughlin

(Atria, 2007)

• Review by Hannah Sampson

Defending the West

Author: Ibn Warraq

(Prometheus, 2007)

• Defending the West by Ibn Warraq

Delaying the Real World

Author: Colleen Kinder

(Running Press, 2005)

• Review by Zachary Houle

The Delighted States

Author: Adam Thirlwell

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Deliver Me from Nowhere

Author: Tennessee Jones

(Soft Skull, 2005)

• Review by Stephen M. Deusner

Demonized

Author: Christopher Fowler

(Serpent's Tail, 2004)

• Review by John Sears

A Density of Souls

Author: Christopher Rice

(Talk Miramax Books, 2001)

• Review by Karen Zarker

Dermaphoria

Author: Craig Clevenger

(MacAdam/Cage, 2005)

• Review by Thomas Scott McKenzie

The Desirable Body

Author: Jon Stratton

(University of Illinois Press, 2001)

• Review by Robyn Sassen

Destroy All Monsters

Author: Ken Hollings

(Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd., 2001)

• Review by Mike Ward

Destroy

Author: Dennis Morris

(Creation Books, 2002)

• Review by John G. Nettles

Detective Story

Author: Imre Kertesz

(Knopf, 2007)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

Devil in the Details

Author: Jennifer Traig

(Little, Brown & Company, 2004)

• Review by Leslie Joseph

Devil's Corner

Author: Lisa Scottoline

(HarperCollins, 2005)

• Review by Roger Holland

The Devil's Highway

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea

(Little, Brown & Co., 2004)

• Review by Lisa Nuch Venbrux

Devil's Midnight

Author: Yuri Kapralov

(Akashic Books, 2005)

• Review by Megan Milks

The Devil's Whisper

Author: Miyuki Miyabe

(Kodansha International, 2007)

• Review by Peter Swanson

Devils in the Sugar Shop

Author: Timothy Schaffert

(Unbridled Books, 2007)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

Author: Michael Palin

(St. Martin's Press, 2007)

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

Diary

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

(Doubleday, 2003)

• Review by Harry H. Long

The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941-1942

Author: Peter Ginz

(Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007)

• Review by Bill Glauber

Diary of a Bad Year

Author: J.M. Coetzee

(Viking, 2007)

• Review by Frank Wilson

Dictation

Author: Cynthia Ozick

(Houghton Mifflin, 2008)

• Review by Rodger Jacobs

The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit

Author: Lois Beckwith

(Broadway Books, 2006)

• Review by Mike Schiller

Digital Hustlers

Author: Casey Kait and Stephen Weiss

(Regan Books, 2002)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

Directed By Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster

Author: Warren Buckland

(Continuum, 2006)

• Review by Bill Gibron

The Dirt

Author: Mötley Crüe, with Neil Strauss

(Regan Books (HarperCollins), 2001)

• Review by Andrew Ellis

Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

Author: Courtney Love

(Faber & Faber, 2006)

• Review by Mary McCoy

A Dirty Job

Author: Christopher Moore

(William Morrow, 2006)

• Review by Josh Stubbs

The Disappointment Artist

Author: Jonathan Lethem

(Vintage, 2006)

• Review by Christopher Gray

Discipline & Punish

Author: Michel Foucault

(Vintage, 1995)

• Column: Discipline and Punish: The Official Functions

Discographies: Dance Music Culture and Politics of Sound

Author: Jeremy Gilbert, Ewan Pearson

(Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1999)

• Feature: In the Eye of the Glitterball

The Disorder of Longing

Author: Natasha Bauman

(Penguin, 2008)

• Review by Diane Leach

Divas and Scholars

Author: Philip Gossett

(University of Chicago Press, 2006)

• Review by Chadwick Jenkins

Divine Sarah

Author: Adam Braver

(William Morrow & Co., 2004)

• Review by Sarah Weinman

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby

(Knopf/Vintage, 2007)

• Review by Nav Purewal

  Featured Article

  

  Economical and considered out of necessity, this is so meticulously crafted that there isn’t a wasted passage or a superfluous phrase.

   

Divisadero

Author: Michael Ondaatje

(Knopf, 2007)

• News: Michael Ondaatje: Finding the right voice amid the heartbreak
• Review by Geeta Sharma-Jensen

Dizzying Heights

Author: Bruce Ducker

(Fulcrum, 2008)

• Review by Patrick Schabe

Do No Harm

Author: Gregg Andrew Hurwitz

(William Morrow, 2002)

• Review by Celia S. McClinton

Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?

Author: Thomas Kohnstamm

(Three Rivers Press, 2008)

• Review by Carlin Romano

The Doctor's Wife

Author: Elizabeth Brundage

(Plume, 2005)

• Review by Robert Roose

Does It Matter?: The Unsustainable World of the Materialists

Author: Graham Dunstan Martin

(Floris Books, 2005)

• Review by Robert R. Calder

The Dog Fighter

Author: Marc Bojanowski

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Rebecca Onion

Dog on the Cross

Author: Aaron Gwyn

(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004)

• Review by Jordan Adair

Doghouse Roses

Author: Steve Earle

(Houghton Mifflin, 2001)

• Review by John Kenyon

The Dogs of Babel

Author: Carolyn Parkhurst

(Little, Brown & Company, 2003)

• Review by Teresa DiFalco

Dogwalker

Author: Arthur Bradford

(Alfred A. Knopf)

• Review by Claire Zulkey

Doing Nothing

Author: Tom Lutz

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

Domestic Violence: Poems

Author: Eavan Boland

(Norton, 2007)

• Review by Katie Haegele

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes, newly translated by Edith Grossman with an introduction by Harold Bloom

(Ecco Books, 2003)

• Review by Daulton Dickey

Don't Get Too Comfortable

Author: David Rakoff

(Doubleday, 2005)

• Review by Jodie Janella Horn

Don't Kiss Them Good-bye

Author: Allison Dubois

(Fireside, 2005)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Don't Know Much About History

Author: Kenneth C. Davis

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Phoebe Kate Foster

Don't Move

Author: Margaret Mazzantini

(Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2004)

• Review by Candace N. Beck

Don't Panic

Author: Cassandra Wilkinson

(Pluto Press Australia, 2007)

• Review by David Pullar

The Donald Richie Reader

Author: Donald Richie (edited by Arturo Silva)

(Stone Bridge Press, 2001)

• Review by John G. Nettles

Doomsday Men

Author: P.D. Smith

(St. Martin's, 2007)

• Review by Paul Halpern

The Doors

Author: The Doors and Ben Fong-Torres

(Hyperion, 2006)

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

The Doors: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics

Author: Danny Sugarman

(Hyperion, 2006)

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

Dorothy Parker's Elbow

Author: Kim Addonizio and Cheryl Dumesnil

(Warner Books, 2002)

• Review by Claire Zulkey

Doubt

Author: Jennifer Michael Hecht

(HarperSanFrancisco, 2004)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

Down in Orburndale: A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida

Author: Bobby Braddock

(Louisiana State University Press, 2007)

• News: Facing the music about a Florida town's racism in the '50s

Dr. Futurity

Author: Philip K. Dick

(Vintage, 2005)

• Review by Bill Gibron

Dr. Golem

Author: Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch

(University of Chicago Press, 2005)

• Review by Robert Roose

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

Author: Olivia Judson

(Metropolitan Books, 2002)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

A Dream of Wolves

Author: Michael C. White

(Perennial, 2002)

• Review by Lanny Gilbert

The Complete Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by Winsor McCay

Author: Ulrich Merkl

: Ulrich Merkl, Alfredo Castelli, Jeremy Taylor

(Ulrich Merkl, 2007)

• Review by George Tiller

Dreamcatcher

Author: Stephen King

(Scribner's, 2001)

• Review by Sabadino Parker

Dreaming in the Rain

Author: David Spaner

(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004)

• Review by Evan Gillespie

Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

Author: Evan Mandery

(Ig Publishing, 2007)

• Review by Rachel Smucker

Dreamland

Author: Newton Thornburg

(Serpent's Tail, 2003)

• Review by Jerome de Groot
• Review by David Pullar

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

Author: Fatima Mernissi

(Addison Wesley, 1995)

• Feature: Nine Wives

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Author: David Sedaris

(Little, Brown & Co., 2004)

• Review by Shandy Casteel

Drift

Author: Kevin Connolly

(House of Anansi Press, 2005)

• Review by Zachary Houle

Drug Wars

Author: Curtis Marez

(University of Minnesota Press, 2004)

• Review by Michael Sandlin

Dry

Author: Augusten Burroughs

(St. Martin's Press, 2003)

• Review by Natalie Hope McDonald

Due Preparations for the Plague

Author: Janette Turner Hospital

(W. W. Norton and Company, 2003)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Duma Key

Author: Stephen King

(Scribner, 2008)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

Dylan's Visions of Sin

Author: Christopher Ricks

(Ecco/HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Andy Fogle