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Books
Friday, June 26 2009
By Chris Barsanti
This maddening new novel is cinematic, set in New York City in the midst of its slide into near-complete dysfunction.
By Mark Reynolds
Perhaps the strongest theme here is that there’s no singular “voice of Africa”, no overarching cosmology to unify the continent’s literature -- and that’s a great thing.
Thursday, June 25 2009
By Shyam K. Sriram
“Each time we move, we must leave something of ourselves behind; perhaps then the map of a Diaspora consists, like a constellation, mainly of gaps.”
By Liz Colville
Weddings render even the most peripheral guest nostalgic, but Rainone takes this truth and pushes it to its limits.
Wednesday, June 24 2009
By Sarah Boslaugh
Pekar finds splendor where others might see only grind, and has a gift for finding the telling anecdote or quotation to illustrate a point or typify a character.
By Sarah Moore
Satchmo provides a more personal look at the man and his talent for rethinking spaces, both audio and visual.
Tuesday, June 23 2009
By Rob Horning
In general, Taylor's writing is unflaggingly good-natured, but that doesn't seem to suit the subject matter, which trades in stereotypes and casual cruelty.
By Michael E. Young
Meet the songwriters who helped make Elvis a star, and find out why one author curses the Beatles.
Monday, June 22 2009
By Kevin Shaw
The narrator's voice -- by turns lyrical and brutal, expansive and introspective -- is White's greatest triumph, elevating what could have been a cliché into a fascinating study of sexual reckoning.
By Heather West
Shiftless teenagers, absent parents, drugs, liquor, and rock ‘n’ roll play equal roles in this wicked, preposterous, highly entertaining imagining of the Rock Crime of the Century.
more  Features
Tuesday, June 23 2009
By PopMatters Staff
“Hell,” Hemon tells PopMatters 20 Questions, “is being stuck at an airport without a book, starving for thought, forced to watch CNN.” Heaven might be a bathtub full of Turkish coffee …
Friday, June 19 2009
By Josh Indar
Cigarette smoke so permeates George Orwell’s stories it almost leaves stains on one’s fingers when reading his books.
Friday, June 12 2009
By Nav Purewal
George Orwell’s seminal book can equip its readers with the intellectual apparatus necessary to see through the routine mendacity and stupefying barrage of euphemism that plagues contemporary political life.
Wednesday, June 24 2009
By Chris Justice
Like the lakes we fish in, there are great treasures lurking in those depths, and great depth lurking in those treasures.
(more The Tackle Box)
Tuesday, June 23 2009
By Michael Antman
As a memoirist, Burroughs is highly skilled at the art of aestheticized self-pity.
(more Read Only Memory)
Wednesday, June 17 2009
By Rodger Jacobs
As George Orwell said, “Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, even if it is only a passionate dislike.”
(more Deconstruction Zone)
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