Reviews
Friday, February 1 2008
Museum Highlights by Andrea Fraser
This book urges us to be more aware of the way we consume aesthetic products, to question their true functions
Thursday, January 17 2008
John Cage by David Nicholls
If Nicholls can only describe the shadow of the event, the echo of the song, then it is to his credit that he succeeds. The book places these experimental pieces in a context outside of the assumed joke or prank.
Wednesday, June 20 2007
Songs for the Dancing Chicken by Emily Schultz
The distance between one's self and the person snuggly sleeping next to us is often cruel and crushing.
Thursday, June 22 2006
The Anti-Oedipus Papers by Felix Guattari
Knowledge is a kindness, but when you approach the unknowable the real work begins.
Thursday, December 22 2005
Chasing Elvis by Glenn P. Marcel
Elvis stands in popular culture a singular force whose persona like Whitman's permits contradictions and provokes an urge to make myths.
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha by Stephen [9.Aug.05]
Doubt: A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht [1.Mar.05]
Skels by Maggie Dubris [25.Aug.04]
The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World by Alister McGrath [28.Jul.04]
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan [22.Jun.04]
Burn by Jennifer Natalya Fink [21.Jan.04]
Vampire Thrall by Michael Schiefelbein [10.Jun.03]
Roughed Up by Simon Sheppard and M. Christian [14.May.03]
Boulevard by Jim Grimsley [13.May.02]
Jocks 2: Coming Out to Play by Dan Woog [8.Jan.02]
