Books Archive: J

JPod

Author: Douglas Coupland

(Bloomsbury, 2006)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

Jackalope Dreams

Author: Mary Clearman Blew

(University of Nebraska Press, 2008)

• Review by Diane Leach

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Blew's prose is as hardscrabble and finely whittled as her Montana subjects: protagonist Corey Henry is fierce, grumpy and, most unusual in today’s fiction, she’s older.

   

A Jacques Barzun Reader

Author: Michael Murray

(Harper Collins, 2001)

• Review by Bruce Stone

James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography

Author: Claudia Springer

(University of Texas, 2007)

• Review by David Sterritt

James Whale

Author: James Curtis

(University of Minnesota Press, 2003)

• Review by Harry H. Long

The Jamestown Project

Author: Karen Ordahl Kupperman

(Harvard University Press, 2007)

• The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
• Review by Michael Patrick Brady

Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose

Author: Kenneth B. Pyle

(Perseus/Century Foundation, 2007)

• Review by Leonard Boasberg

Japanland

Author: Karin Muller

(Rodale Books, 2005)

• Review by Raquel Laneri

Jazz

Author: Bob Blumenthal

(Collins, 2007)

• Review by Michael Patrick Brady

Jerusalem Calling

Author: Joel Schalit

(Akashic, 2002)

• Review by Mark Desrosiers

Jews and Power

Author: Ruth R. Wisse

(Nextbook/Schocken, 2007)

• The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy

Jimmy Stewart: A Biography

Author: Marc Eliot

(Harmony Books, 2006)

• Review by Peter L. Winkler

Jocks 2

Author: Dan Woog

(Alyson Publications, 2002)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

John Adams

Author: David McCullough

(Simon & Schuster (reissue ed.), 2008)

• Review by Michael Patrick Brady

John Cage

Author: David Nicholls

(University of Illinois Press, 2007)

• Review by N. A. Hayes

John Huston

Author: Robert Emmet Long

(University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

• Review by John G. Nettles

John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man

Author: John Heilpern

(Knopf, 2007)

• Review by Frank Wilson

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison

Author: Michael Streissguth

(Da Capo, 2004)

• Review by Zeth Lundy

The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson and Me

Author: Ralph Steadman

(Harcourt, 2006)

• Review by John Carvill

Jonah Sees Ghosts

Author: Mark J. Sullivan, III

(Akashic, 2003)

• Review by Stephen M. Deusner

Journal of the Dead

Author: Jason Kersten

(HarperCollins, 2003)

• Review by Teresa DiFalco

Journey into Russia

Author: Laurens Van der Post

(Penguin, 1967)

• Column: The Pleasures of Propaganda

Judging Thomas

Author: Ken Foskett

(William Morrow, 2004)

• Review by Lester Pimentel

Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis

Author: Charles Reagan Wilson

: Tom Rankin (Photographer), Susan B. Lee (Photographer)

(University of Georgia, 2007)

• Review by Leigh H. Edwards

Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made

Author: Jim Newton

(Penguin Group (USA), 2006)

• Review by Carl P. Leubsdorf [The Dallas Morning News]