Columns
Friday, March 27 2009
Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
In a sense, panic is an imprecise word to describe the emotion of financial crashes; paranoia better suits.
Thursday, February 26 2009
Blind Man with a Pistol: Ishmael Reed’s Misguided Pow-Wow
Anyone who has witnessed affirmative action policies in play can tell you that bad apples are chosen to fulfill a quota, not unlike a cop who harasses every citizen who bears a vague resemblance to a wanted suspect.
Reviews
Tuesday, March 24 2009
Last Lion by Peter S. Canellos
If you want a peek inside America's royal family, this is a must-read, with details that only Boston Globe reporters could know.
Thursday, December 18 2008
Best Food Writing 2008, ed. Holly Hughes
Molecular gastronomy? Check. Locavores? Check. Post-Katrina restaurant recovery? Cloned meat? Paeans to the wonders of pig? Check, check, check.
Tuesday, December 16 2008
The Best of Sexology, ed. Craig Yoe
In1933 Gernsback published a pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-scientific magazine devoted to sex and all its mysteries, vagaries, varieties -- not to mention all its anxieties.
Tuesday, September 23 2008
New Stories from the South 2008: The Year's Best
Flannery O'Conner's hauntingly gothic South meets the modern American search for meaning in yet another superb edition of this series.
Tuesday, January 11 2005
Truth or Dare: A Book of Secrets Shared by Justine Picardie
This is less about confession, and more about who these writers are and how they got that way.
