Tuesday, October 4 2011
Was Grunge the Last American Musical Revolution?
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten. In revisiting the grunge genre which altered the musical landscape two decades ago, the question arises: was this our last musical revolution?
Monday, August 15 2011
The Problem of Genre in Video Games
Despite the wide variety of forms that games come in, the number of genres and the distinctions between them are confusingly small.
Tuesday, August 9 2011
Quentin Tarantino’s Cinematic Reality
Quentin Tarantino is reliving his childhood cinema experiences, reinterpreting fractured moments of memory. Going to the movies is about an escape from our world, a mirror world at once familiar yet different.
Friday, May 20 2011
Heavy (Emotional) Weather in ‘The Stormchasers’
The Stormchasers is a non-traditional entry into the Chick Lit canon as there’s a lot of scientific talk in the book and a lot of getting one’s hands dirty. Sophie Kinsella this ain’t.
Tuesday, December 7 2010
‘Love in a Headscarf’: True Love Will Find You in the End
This memoir is written like a British Muslim version of Sex and the City, just without the fashion porn – unless, of course, wearing the hijab can be considered to be just as fashionable as it is spiritual.
Thursday, June 17 2010
Getting Inside the Book Review: How They Work & Why We Read Them
We've all done it -- bought a book based on a good review, passed over another because of a bad review. But why do reviews affect us? And how do they do it?
Tuesday, June 15 2010
Has the Internet Killed Professional Book Reviews?
Is the internet killing book reviews? Will blog reviews soon replace the long lengthy columns we've come to love in the New York Times? As a reviewer, will I no longer find neat, book-shaped packages in my mailbox?
Thursday, April 1 2010
Penguin & the iPad: Taking Books to the Next Level, or Leaving Them in the Dust?
Apple's latest gadget, the iPad, hits shelves this weekend. There's been a lot of chatter on the interwebs and in the publishing world about how the shiny new tech may change the way we think of books.
Tuesday, February 2 2010
A Field Guide To Burying Your Parents by Liza Palmer
What we have here is a shining example of a much-maligned genre of bookdom. You know it as "Chick Lit".
