Books Archive: G

G-strings and Sympathy

Author: Katherine Frank

(Duke University Press, 2002)

• Review by Kim Diorio

The Game

Author: Neil Strauss

(Regan Books, 2005)

• Review by Thomas Scott McKenzie

Gamer Theory

Author: McKenzie Wark

(Harvard University Press, 2007)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Games and Sport in Everyday Life

Author: Robert Perinbanayagam

(Paradigm Press, 2006)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture

Author: Alexander R. Galloway

(University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

• Review by Mike Schiller

The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight

Author: Marc Weingarten

(Crown, 2005)

• Review by Michael Sandlin

The Gangster Film Reader

Author: Alain Silver and James Ursini [Eds]

(Limelight Editions, 2007)

• Review by David Sterritt

Garbo

Author: Barry Paris

(University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

• Review by D. R. Peak

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World

Author: Alfonso Scirocco

(Princeton University Press, 2007)

• Garibaldi: Citizen of the World by Alfonso Scirocco

Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero

Author: Lucy Riall

(Yale University Press, 2007)

• Garibaldi: Citizen of the World by Alfonso Scirocco

The Gathering

Author: Anne Enright

(Grove, 2007)

• Review by Nav Purewal

  PopMatters Pick

  

  A multigenerational saga that never sacrifices intimacy for affected grandeur, a domestic novel that feels limitless in scope, and a family tragedy that affirms the very life it laments.

   
• News: In Irish author's tale, hard-won happiness comes through children and self-discovery

The Geese of Beaver Bog

Author: Bernd Heinrich

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Genealogy Of Queer Theory

Author: William B. Turner

(Temple University Press, 2000)

• Column: A Clan, a Network, a Tribe, a Family

Generation Fetish By Lee Higgs

• Review by Michael Stephens

Generation S.l.u.t.*

Author: Marty Beckerman

(MTV/Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, 2004)

• Review by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

Genre in Popular Music

Author: Fabian Holt

(University Of Chicago Press, 2007)

• Review by Leigh H. Edwards

The Gentle Axe

Author: R.N. Morris

(Penguin, 2007)

• Review by Edward Pettit

Gentlemen of the Road

Author: Michael Chabon

(Ballantine, 2007)

• Review by Will Layman

Genuine Authentic

Author: Michael Gross

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Lary Wallace

The Geographer's Library

Author: Jon Fasman

(Penguin Press, 2005)

• Review by Patricia Storms

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

Author: Georgina Howell

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

• Review by Ron Grossman

Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s

Author: Sam Binkley

(Duke University Press, 2007)

• Review by Vince Carducci

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Binkley does more than simply mark the transition from Yippy to yuppie.

   

The Ghastly One. the Sex-gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan

Author: Jimmy McDonough

(Acapella Books, 2001)

• Review by David Sanjek

Ghastly Terror

(Ghastly Terror: The Horrible Story of the Horror ComicsStephen Sennitt(Critical Vision/Headpress, 1999))

• Review by Ed Hatton

Ghettostadt

Author: Gordon J. Horwitz

(Belknap, 2008)

• Review by Jeffrey White

The Ghost Map

Author: Steven Johnson

(Penguin, 2006)

• Feature: Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson

The Ghost Soldiers

Author: James Tate

(Ecco, 2008)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

The Ghost

Author: Robert Harris

(Simon & Schuster, 2007)

• Review by Peter Swanson

Ghosts of 42nd Street

Author: Anthony Bianco

(William Morrow, 2004)

• Review by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

Ghosts of Vesuvius

Author: Charles Pellegrino

(William Morrow, 2004)

• Review by Joseph Pompeo

Gifts of the Desert

Author: Kyriacos C. Markides

(Doubleday, 2007)

• Review by Dave Howell

Girl Beside Him

Author: Cris Mazza

(Fiction Collective Two, Florida State University)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

Girl Imagined By Chance

Author: Lance Olsen

(FC2, 2002)

• Review by Nigam Nuggehalli

A Girl Like Sugar

Author: Emily Pohl-Weary

(McGilligan Books, 2004)

• Review by Zachary Houle

The Girl on the Fridge

Author: Etgar Keret

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Girls Like Us

Author: Sheila Weller

(Atria, 2008)

• Review by Howard Cohen

The Girls Who Went Away

Author: Ann Fessler

(Penguin, 2006)

• Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz

The Girls in 3-b

Author: Valerie Taylor, Afterward by Lisa Walker

(Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2003)

• Review by Erica Weitzman

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

Author: Bill Clinton

(Knopf, 2007)

• Review by John Mark Eberhart

Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry

Author: Juliet McMains

(Wesleyan University Press, 2006)

• Feature: Permission to Follow: Interview with Juliet McMains

Globalization and Its Discontents

Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz

(Norton, 2003)

• Where Is the World Going, Mr. Stiglitz?

Glory Goes and Gets Some

Author: Emily Carter

(Serpent's Tail, 2003)

• Review by John Sears

Glued to the Tube

Author: Bill Brownstein

(ECW Press, 2001)

• Review by Phil Hall

Go To

Author: Steve Lohr

(Basic Books, 2001)

• Review by John Biggs

God Is Not Great

Author: Christopher Hitchens

(Twelve, 2007)

• Review by Chris Barsanti
• Review by Chris Hedges

God in the White House

Author: Randall Balmer

(HarperOne, 2008)

• Review by Christopher Martin

God's Harvard

Author: Hanna Rosin

(Harcourt, 2007)

• Review by Christopher Martin

God's Soldiers

Author: Jonathan Wright

(Image Books, 2005)

• Review by ="Description" CONTENT="God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue and Power - A History of the Jesuits by Jonathan Wright

Godlike

Author: Richard Hell

(Akashic Books, 2005)

• Review by Jodie Janella Horn

Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel

Author: Marie Phillips

(Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

• Review by Francesca Camillo

The Gods Drink Whiskey

Author: Stephen T. Asma

(HarperSanFrancisco, 2005)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

Going East

Author: Matthew d'Ancona

(Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2004)

• Review by Bunmi Adeoye

Going Postal

Author: Mark Ames

(Soft Skull, 2005)

• Review by Thomas Scott McKenzie

Going to Bend

Author: Diane Hammond

(Doubleday, 2004)

• Review by Teri A McIntyre

A Golden Age

Author: Tahmima Anam

(HarperCollins, 2008)

• Review by Angela Shah

Golem Song

Author: Marc Estrin

(Unbridled Books, 2006)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

Author: Jann S. Wenner and Corey Seymour

(Little, Brown, 2007)

• Review by Michael Lindenberger

Good As Lily

Author: Derek Kirk Kim

: Jesse Hamm (Illustrator)

(Minx, 2007)

• Review by Katie Haegele

The Good Life

Author: Jay McInerney

(Knopf, 2006)

• Review by Thomas Scott McKenzie

The Good Parents

Author: Joan London

(Random House, Australia)

• Review by David Pullar

The Good, the Bad and the Inevitable

Author: Barbara Holborow

(Random House Australia, 2003)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Goodbye 20th Century

Author: David Browne

(Perseus, 2008)

• Review by Kirby Fields

Gossip of the Starlings

Author: Nina de Gramont

(Algonquin, 2008)

• Review by Matthew Fiander

The Gothic

Author: Gilda Williams

(MIT, 2007)

• Review by Mikita Brottman

  PopMatters Pick

  

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

   

Grab Bag

Author: Derek McCormack

(Akashic Books, 2004)

• Review by Zachary Houle

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Author: Anne Lamott

(Penguin/Riverhead, 2007)

• Review by Pamela Miller

Gracefully Insane

Author: Alex Beam

(Public Affairs Books, 2001)

• Review by Jeremy Hart

The Grandmothers

Author: Doris Lessing

(HarperCollins, 2004)

• Review by Anne K. Yoder

The Granta Book of Reportage

: Ian Jack, Editor

(Granta, 2007)

• Review by Chris McCann

The Grateful Dead and Philosophy

: ed. Steve Gimbel

(Open Court, 2007)

• Column: Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Choose

The Grave Tattoo

Author: Val McDermid

(St. Martin's Press, 2007)

• The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid

The Grave of God's Daughter

Author: Brett Ellen Block

(William Morrow, 2004)

• Review by Robert Hickey

The Great Arab Conquests

Author: Hugh Kennedy

(Da Capo, 2007)

• Review by Richard Hellinga
• The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy

The Great Deluge

Author: Douglas Brinkley

(William Morrow, 2006)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

The Great Funk

Author: Thomas Hine

(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007)

• Review by Glenn C. Altschuler

The Great Movies Ii

Author: Roger Ebert with photo stills by Mary Corliss

(Broadway Books, 2005)

• Review by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

Great Presidential Wit (i Wish I Was in the Book)

Author: Bob Dole

(Touchstone Books, 2002)

• Review by Celia S. McClinton

A Great, Silly Grin

Author: Humphrey Carpenter

(Public Affairs Books, 2002)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

Greatest Hits, 1975-2000

(Pudding House Publications)

• Review by Gary Kuhlmann

The Greedy Bastard Diary

Author: Eric Idle

(HarperCollins/ Harper Entertainment, 2005)

• Review by Daulton Dickey

The Greenlanders

Author: Jane Smiley

(Anchor Books, 2005)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

Greetings From Bury Park

Author: Sarfraz Manzoor

(Vintage, 2008)

• Review by Lisa Arthur

Greetings From E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Author: Robert Santelli

(Chronicle Books, 2006)

• Born To Run by Eric Meola

Growing Up Asian in Australia

Author: Alice Pung

(Black Inc., 2008)

• Review by David Pullar

Grub

Author: Elise Blackwell

(Toby Press, 2007)

• Review by Claudia Smith Brinson

The Guggenheims

Author: Irwin Unger and Debi Unger

(HarperCollins, 2005)

• Review by Leslie Joseph

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

Author: Jean Baudrillard

: Paul Patton (Translator)

(Power Publications, 2004)

• Feature: The Death of Jean Baudrillard Did Not Take Place

Gunman's Rhapsody

Author: Robert B. Parker

(G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001)

• Review by John G. Nettles

The Guru of Love

Author: Samrat Uphadyay

(Houghton Mifflin, 2003)

• Review by Sarah Tan