Books Archive: P

The Pagan Christ

Author: Tom Harpur

(Thomas Allen, 2004)

• Review by Michael Nenonen

Pakistan

Author: Mary Anne Weaver

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

Pandora's Handbag

Author: Elizabeth Young, with an Introduction by Will Self

(Serpent's Tail, 2003)

• Review by John Sears

Paper Moon

Author: Joe David Brown

(Four Walls Eight Windows, 1969)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

Paperback Apocalypse

Author: Robert M. Price

(Prometheus, 2007)

• Review by Justin Dimos

Paradoxia

Author: Lydia Lunch

(Akashic, 2007)

• Review by Matthew Kantor

Paranoia

Author: Joseph Finder

(St. Martin's Press, 2003)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Author: Richard Hofstadter

(Harvard University Press, 1996)

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

Parasites Like Us

Author: Adam Johnson

(Viking, 2003)

• Review by Anne Yoder

The Paris Review Interviews

(Picador, 2007)

• Review by Erik Hinton

Passwords

Author: Jean Baudrillard

(Verso, 2003)

• Review by Rahul Gairola

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

(Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2006)

• Review by Michael Upchurch [The Seattle Times]

Peace Kills

Author: P.J. O'Rourke

(Atlantic Monthly Press (US); Picador (AU), 2004)

• Review by Nikki Tranter

Pearl of Perlis

Author: Editors: Kasim Osman, Rahimatsah Amat and Surin Suksuwan

(State of Perlis Forestry DepartmentKM2, Jalan Kaki Bukit01000 Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia)

• Review by Clarissa Lee

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Author: Paulo Freire

: Myra Bergman Ramos (Translator)

(Continuum)

• Feature: A People’s Historian

Peony in Love: A Novel

Author: Lisa See

(Random House, 2007)

• Review by Allen Pierleoni
• Review by Catherine Mallette

People In Glass Houses

Author: Tanya Levin

(Black Inc., 2007)

• Review by David Pullar

People of the Bomb

Author: Hugh Gusterson

(University of Minnesota Press, 2004)

• Review by Michael Sandlin

People of the Book

Author: Geraldine Brooks

(Viking, 2008)

• Review by Diane Leach
• News: Pulitzer Prize-winner invents a history in ‘People of the Book'

A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

Author: Howard Zinn

(Harper, 2005)

• Feature: A People’s Historian

The People's Republic of Desire

Author: Annie Wang

(Harper Paperbacks, 2006)

• Review by Erin Frauenhofer

Perfect Example

Author: John Porcellino

(Drawn & Quarterly, 2005)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

Perfect I'm Not

Author: David Wells with Chris Kreski

(William Morrow, 2003)

• Review by Valerie MacEwan

The Perfect Manhattan

Author: Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey

(Broadway Books, 2005)

• Review by Christine Forte

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

Author: Steven Levy

(Simon and Schuster, 2006)

• Review by Jason B. Jones

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Author: Richard P. Feynman; edited by Michelle Feynman

(Basic Books, 2005)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Performance: A Critical Introduction

Author: Marvin Carlson

(Taylor & Francis, Inc., 2003)

• Feature: In the Eye of the Glitterball

The Perricone Prescription

Author: Dr. Nicholas Pericone

(Thorsons, 2003)

• Review by Patricia Allmer

Persepolis

Author: Marjane Satrapi

(Pantheon Books, 2003)

• Review by Sarah Tan

Persian Fire

Author: Tom Holland

(Doubleday, 2006)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

Pestilence

Author: William Owen Roberts

(Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003)

• Review by James Oliphant

Philosophy of New Music

Author: Theodor Adorno; Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor

(University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

• Review by Patrick Schabe

The Photograph

Author: Penelope Lively

(Penguin Books, 2003)

• Review by Philippa Nuttall

Physical Evidence

Author: Kent Jones

(Wesleyan, 2007)

• Review by David Sterritt

The Physics of Christianity

Author: Frank Tipler

(Doubleday, 2007)

• Review by Bryan Appleyard

Pie to Spoilt

Author: Chong Tze Chien

(The Necessary Stage, 2002)

• Review by Clarissa Lee

Pimpnosis

Author: Rob Marriott and Tracy Funches

(Harper Entertainment, 2002)

• Review by Kim Diorio

Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women

Author: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

(NYU Press, 2007)

• Review by Carlin Romano

Pink Floyd and Philosophy

Author: ed. George Reisch

(Open Court, 2007)

• Column: Rock Hits Wall

The Pirate Hunter

Author: Richard Zacks

(Hyperion Press, 2002)

• Review by D. R. Peak

The Pirate's Daughter

Author: Margaret Cezair-Thompson

(Unbridled, 2007)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich

Author: Mark Kriegel

(Simon & Schuster, 2007)

• Review by Dan McGrath

A Place Called Vatmaar

Author: A. H. M. Scholtz (translated by Chris van Wyk)

(Kwela Books, 2000)

• Review by Robyn Sassen

A Plague of Frogs

Author: William Souder

(University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Plant Life

Author: Pamela Duncan

(Delacorte Press, 2003)

• Review by Jordan Adair

Play Between Worlds

Author: T.L. Taylor

(MIT Press, 2006)

• Review by Rob Horning

Playboy's Silverstein Around the World

Author: Shel Silverstein

: Hugh M. Hefner (Foreword), Mitch Myers (Introduction)

(Fireside, 2007)

• Review by Peter Swanson

Pleased to See Me

Author: Neil Astley (ed.)

(Bloodaxe Books, 2002)

• Review by John Sears

The Plenitude

Author: Rich Gold

(MIT Press, 2007)

• Column: The Design Imperative

Point of Purchase

Author: Sharon Zukin

(Routledge, 2005)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Points of Departure

Author: Monica Lavin; Gustavo V. Segade, translator

(City Lights Books, 2001)

• Review by Matt Cibula

Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture

Author: Christine L. Marran

(University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

• Review by Michael Antman

Poker Nation

Author: Andy Bellin

(Harper Collins, 2003)

• Review by Adam H. Cook

The Polish Woman

Author: Eva Mekler

(Bridge Works, 2007)

• Review by Desmond Ryan

The Politics of Small Things

Author: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

(University of Chicago Press, 2006)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort

Author: Colin Bennett

: Rik Rawling (Illustrator)

(Critical Vision, 2002)

• Column: Abandoning the Fort

The Polysyllabic Spree

Author: Nick Hornby

(Believer Books (a division of McSweeney's), 2004)

• Review by Nicholas Taylor

Poop Culture – How American is Shaped by its Grossest National Product

Author: Dave Praeger

(Feral House, 2007)

• Column: Shit Happens

The Pornographer's Poem

Author: Michael Turner

(Soft Skull Press, 2004)

• Review by Zachary Houle

Pornology

Author: Ayn Carrillo-Gailey

(Running Press, 2007)

• Review by Leslie Joseph

The Portable Atheist

: Christopher Hitchens, Editor

(Da Capo, 2007)

• Review by Barry Lenser

Portrait of My Lover as a Horse

Author: Selima Hill

(BloodAxe Books, 2002)

• Review by John Sears

A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man

Author: Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts

(Three Rivers Press, 2005)

• Review by Rebecca Onion

Portrait of a Killer

Author: Patricia Cornwell

(Penguin Putnam, 2002)

• Review by Steven T. Boltz

Portraits of Israelis & Palestinians

Author: Seth Tobocman

(Soft Skull Press, 2003)

• Review by Ryan Paul

Positively 4th Street — the Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña an

Author: David Hajdu

(Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2001)

• Review by Simon Warner

The Possibility of An Island

Author: Michel Houllebecq

(Knopf, 2006)

• Review by John Schacht

Postcards

Author: Jason Rodriguez [Editor]

(Villard, 2007)

• Review by Leslie Joseph

The Postmodern Preacher

Author: Shayne Lee

(New York University Press, 2005)

• Review by Jonathan L. Walton

Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths

Author: Stefan Timmermans

(University of Chicago Press, 2006)

• Review by Robert Roose, MD

Postsecret

Author: Frank Warren (Editor)

(Regan Books, 2005)

• Review by Zachary Houle

Pound for Pound

Author: F.X. Toole

(Ecco, 2006)

• Review by Mary McCoy

Pound for Pound

Author: Herb Boyd with Ray Robinson II

(Amistad/HarperCollins, 2005)

• Review by Paul Beston

Power Plays

Author: Dick Morris

(Regan Books, 2002)

• Review by Mark Dionne

The Power of a Partner

Author: Richard L. Pimental-Habib, Ph.D.

(Alyson Books, 2002)

• Review by Jennifer Bendery

Power to Save the World

Author: Gwyneth Cravens

(Knopf, 2007)

• The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby / Power to Save the World by Gwyneth Cravens

Power, Faith, and Fantasy

Author: Michael B. Oren

(W.W. Norton, 2007)

• Review by Chris Barsanti

Powerful Medicines

Author: Jerry Avorn, MD

(Vintage, 2005)

• Review by Robert Roose, MD

Practical Research Methods for Media and Cultural Studies

Author: Máire Messenger Davies and Nick Mosdell

(University of Georgia Press, 2007)

• Review by Dan Nishimoto

Pravda

Author: Edward Docx

(Mariner, 2008)

• Review by David Pullar

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Praying for Gil Hodges

Author: Thomas Oliphant

(St. Martin's Griffin, 2006)

• Review by Neal Hayes

Pre-Code Hollywood

Author: Thomas Doherty

(Columbia University Press, 1999)

• Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2

The Preacher and the Presidents

Author: Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

(Center Street, 2007)

• Review by John Mark Eberhart

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Author: Erving Goffman

(Peter Smith, 1999)

• Feature: Confidence Games on Canal Street

Preserving the Pasagoula

Author: Donald G. Schueler

(University Press of Mississippi)

• Review by Wesley Burnett

Pretty Little Dirty

Author: Amanda Boyden

(Vintage, 2006)

• Review by Raquel Laneri

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Author: Robert Stone

(Ecco, 2007)

• Review by Chauncey Mabe

Prince

Author: Morton, Brian

(Canongate, 2007)

• Review by Evan Sawdey

Prince of Lost Places

Author: Kathy Hepinstall

(G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003)

• Review by John Sears

The Prince

Author: Hushang Golshiri

: James Buchan (Translator)

(Random House, 2007)

• Review by Lara Killian

Print Is Dead

Author: Jeff Gomez

(Macmillan, 2007)

• Review by Shawn ORourke

Print the Legend

Author: Scott Eyman

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

• Review by Wayne Brown

Profane Waste

Author: Gretchen Craft Rubin and Dana Hoey

(Gregory R. Miller & Company, 2006)

• Review by Vince Carducci

Project X

Author: Jim Shepard

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)

• Review by Sarah Tan

The Proust Project

Author: Andre Acimen

(Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004)

• Review by Joseph Pompeo

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Author: Jonah Lehrer

(Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

• Review by John Timpane

Proust and the Squid

Author: Maryanne Wolf

(HarperCollins, 2007)

• Review by Carlin Romano

The Psychology of War

Author: Lawrence LeShan

(Helios Press, 1969)

• Review by Kim Diorio

The Psychology of the Sopranos

Author: Glenn O. Gabbard

(Basic Books, 2002)

• Review by Tara Taghizadeh

Public Cowboy No.1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry

Author: Holly George-Warren

(Oxford University Press, 2007)

• Review by Doug Nye

Public Sex

Author: Pat Califia

(Cleis Press, 2000)

• Review by Jennifer Bendery

Punk House

Author: Abby Banks, Timothy Findlen

: Thurston Moore (Editor)

(Abrams Image, 2007)

• Review by Raymond Cummings

Punktown

Author: Jeffrey Thomas

(Ministry of Whimsy Press)

• Review by Matthew Wolf-Meyer

The Push Man and Other Stories

Author: Yoshihiro Tatsumi

(Drawn & Quarterly, 2005)

• Review by Tim O'Neil

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

Author: Jennifer Block

(Da Capo, 2007)

• Review by Jodie Janella Keith

Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy

Author: Anna Politkovskaya

(Owl Books; Reprint edition, 2007)

• Column: The Post-Putin Era: Russian Revolution or Russian Evolution?