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Books
Wednesday, February 10 2010
By James Williams
On not going anywhere -- and being just fine with it.
By Jayson Harsin
Richard Kleist's illustrated, partly fictional biography, of Johnny Cash follows a mostly well-trod narrative path, sometimes repainting it in a striking style.
Tuesday, February 9 2010
By Tara Murtha
It’s hard to mess up this type of vanity project, especially when your wagon’s so firmly hitched to a star as big as Richard Pryor. So how did Black is the New White go so wrong?
By Dan Cryer
Haunting and melancholy, furious and tender, The Unnamed is written with uncommon grace.
Monday, February 8 2010
By Catherine Ramsdell
A wonderfully amusing look at the items many Americans use everyday, but never really think about.
By Susan Salter Reynolds
Maybe you can't imagine how things will turn out, but Amy Bloom can.
Friday, February 5 2010
By James Williams
Shields comes across as an adolescent who has just read, say, 'Beyond Good and Evil' and is eager to try his hand at a grand and earthshaking pronouncement.
By Hillary Brenhouse
The Brit band's excess is perhaps what the people behind this book had in mind when they covered its pages in cheap-looking, multicolored clip art -- paisley borders, floating polka dots, bloated flowers.
Thursday, February 4 2010
By Diane Leach
We are forced to see how very little has changed from one homophobic era to another; how anti-Semitism still wends its ancient, hateful way through certain minds.
By Fred Grimm
Characters so vivid this this feels like reading a book describing dear friends.
Wednesday, February 3 2010
By Oliver Ho
A comprehensive introduction to the "three pounds of flesh (that) create an entire universe inside your head," this three-pound book balances heavy-duty science with the lightness of a stack of popular magazines.
By Carrie Rickey
There's a difference between dish, which is tasty, and dough rising, which is not. Biskind doesn't know the difference.
Tuesday, February 2 2010
By Chris Barsanti
To paraphrase Lewis Black, if the candidates in the 2008 election represent evolution, then by 2016 we're going to be voting for plants.
By Zachary Houle
What we have here is a shining example of a much-maligned genre of bookdom. You know it as "Chick Lit".
Monday, February 1 2010
By Rachel Balik
Smith is self-aware without self-absorbed, shares her voice without yelling, and gives the reader not only the gift of her wisdom, but also the gift of her humanity.
By Ben Hamilton
These nine stories perform a kind of speculative insight by borrowing characters from history and literature, all of whom are linked by a common theme: disability, of one form or another.
more  Features
Monday, February 8 2010
By Ian Chant
PopMatters talks with Superfreakonomics coauthor Stephen J. Dubner about collaboration, geoengineering and why some economists don't like his books.
Friday, February 5 2010
By Chadwick Jenkins
Seymour is the presence you are sure you encountered before the door shut and he was gone; in this way, Seymour (not Holden) becomes the emblem for Salinger himself.
By Robert Loss
The entirety of Marcus' famous 1970 "What is this shit?" review prefigures the sense of profound, disturbed wonder in the best of Marcus’ criticism.
Friday, February 5 2010
By Rodger Jacobs
“The chief proof of a man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. It argues... a power of comparison and of appreciation which is in itself proof of nobility.”
(more Deconstruction Zone)
Monday, February 1 2010
By Michael Antman
There's a higher ratio of disposable schlock in the memoir than in other literary genres, but the best memoirs permit access to lives strange, twisted, wasted, brave, and glorious -- lives, in short, other than our own.
(more Read Only Memory)
Thursday, January 28 2010
By Jennifer Makowsky
Ang Lee captures the '70s on film the way Rick Moody captures the era in the book The Ice Storm. It's the midst of the sexual revolution, the Watergate scandal is erupting, and the country's social consciousness is changing.
(more The Box Office Belletrist)
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