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Books
Friday, November 13 2009
By Michael Patrick Brady
Author Declan Kiberd gives Ulysses new life, new vitality, and proves that it contains a deeper wisdom that is available to everyone.
By Diane Leach
How does the narrator survive after losing her beloved brother? Petterson offers no easy answers.
Thursday, November 12 2009
By Alan Ashton-Smith
A preponderance of headless corpses and eccentric scientists means that this is certainly a macabre book, but the silliness of the pseudo-sciences it debunks makes it more entertaining than unnerving.
By Trenton Daniel
This will be held up as a primer for grasping the modern-day Middle East — mainly in Iraq but Iran, too.
Wednesday, November 11 2009
By Christel Loar
Edwards' inside scoop on the story of the making of the classic Madness debut disc is, much like the album itself; a little unusual, a bit nutty, and quite brilliant.
By John Timpane
Starr writes lucid and stylish prose, and the sheer size and power of this true-life tale open the eyes wide.
Tuesday, November 10 2009
By Christopher Guerin
Simon Axler, a stage and screen actor of near legendary stature, has earned the “reputation as the last of the best of the classical American stage actors.” The novel begins: “He’d lost his magic.”
By Josh Indar
The creator of the universally-beloved Calvin and Hobbes was a perfectionist and a true believer in his art form, yet he hated the fame that his creations brought him.
By Jim Landers
Schriever seems to have given Sheehan more of a good story than a good portrait.
Monday, November 9 2009
By Carmelo Militano
Moving back and forth through memory and time, these essays act like a vehicle moving through historical, mental and natural landscapes.
By Zachary Houle
Alas this is a meandering and fairly plotless book, one that is as bewildering as it is baffling.
Friday, November 6 2009
By Chris Barsanti
Tanenhaus elegantly argues that the American conservatism might be at low ebb, but that should not be expected to last. Nor should liberals (as prone to premature gloating as their rivals) even want it to happen.
Thursday, November 5 2009
By Diane Leach
Those who suffer from epilepsy, their families and friends, can only throw light at this neuro-spectre, as Fiennes does, showing us Richard in all his damaged Richardness, a man who truly haunted a castle.
By Carolyn W. Fanelli
Sabatini’s book exudes an authenticity and warmth that can’t come from an author’s imagination alone, but from a lifetime of listening and observing.
Wednesday, November 4 2009
By Mary Ann Gwinn
A brooding, melancholy variation on the theme of Mary Shelley's classic novel.
By Sarah Boslaugh
British photojournalist Clive Limpkin has a unique view of modern India in 100 illustrated essays from "Army" to "Zebu".
more  Features
Thursday, November 12 2009
By Garry Berman
The Beatles managed to spend the morning of the next day, Feb. 8th, in relative quiet. On Sunday, they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and it was the night Beatlemania exploded.
Tuesday, November 10 2009
By Mike Garrett
PopMatters talks with Ed Falco and his niece, actor Edie Falco, about their life in the arts and Ed's gritty new novel, Saint John of the Five Boroughs.
Monday, November 9 2009
By Diane Leach
Ayn Rand set out to remake reality as if it were an ill-fitting dress: by sheer will, she tried to fashion a Balenciaga gown from a housedress.
Tuesday, November 10 2009
By George Reisch
President Obama probably rattled and hummed in disbelief when he got his Nobel Prize. Ask Bono.
(more Pop Goes Philosophy)
Friday, October 30 2009
By Roland Laird
Film adaptations from black masterpieces -- and the Chitlin Circuit -- are rejuvenating America's Black Arts Movement.
(more Write Black at You)
Thursday, October 29 2009
By Chris Justice
To paraphrase Nietzsche, when fighting monsters one should be careful not to become one, but that’s a major reason why many people fish: to slay the proverbial dragon.
(more The Tackle Box)
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