AltWeeklies Wire
Epics, Artists, and Revolutionariesnew

Ten of the best books of 2011.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
11-28-2011 |
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Tags: Best books of 2011
Girls Will be Girls?new
Expectations are the boxes into which we lock each other. Several books -- Dropped From Heaven, Girls Gone Mild, Bad Girls, Cool It -- explore expectations society has for females.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
09-13-2007 |
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The Wild, Wild Questnew
Previous explorers have pretty much screwed the adventure-book genre, yet whatever inspired explorers before still inspires them, as evidenced by these books.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
07-25-2007 |
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Authors Train Their Sights on Siblingsnew
This is the year authors ran out of stuff to say about themselves and started in on the next best thing: siblings.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
06-20-2007 |
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Losing Their Religionnew
Sam Harris crusades against religion, but other recent religious-themed works strike a different tone.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
11-01-2005 |
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Tags: Sam Harris, Julia Scheeres, The End of Faith, Anosh Irani, Arjen van der Kooij, Dogs of God, Doorway to Eternity, El Corazón de la Muerte, James Reston Jr., Jesus Land, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Last Night of a Damned Soul, Matthue Roth, Ramon Dekkers, Slimane Benaissa, The Cripple and His Talismans, The Great Theft, Wolf Dreams, Yasmina Khadra, Yom Kippur a Go-Go
How Can You Laugh?new
With their embarrassing confessions, a new breed of authors begs to be humiliated.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-10-2005 |
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