AltWeeklies Wire
Mafiaboy Finally Writes About Being the World's Most Notorious Hackernew
In Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet And Why It's Still Broken, Michael Calce and his writing buddy Craig Silverman have delivered a fun retrospective on the hacking underworld at the dawn of the new millennium.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
Putin Power Playnew
Today Russia has returned a stronger, richer and more confident nation, having barely survived the plundering of its wealth and the impoverishment of its people during the drunken reign of Boris Yeltsin. But Russia's resurrection has come at a high price.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
09-22-2008 |
Nonfiction
On October 27, 1962, the World Nearly Came to an Endnew
Much has been written about the ultimate crisis of the Cold War, but Michael Dobbs' account vividly captures the white-knuckled anxiety that gripped the White House and the Kremlin during those dark days.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
07-28-2008 |
Nonfiction
Satan's Choicenew
This colorful, well-crafted historical tale of a bad cop and the corrupt system he served to death shows that the U.S. has been executing innocent people for a long time.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
01-04-2008 |
Fiction
'Indian Summer' is a Great Read & Backgrounder to Today's Headlinesnew
Historical giants weave in and out of the years of high drama leading up to the British forces' withdrawal from India in 1947. But Von Tunzelmann reveals, often with comical verve, that many of those giants were grossly flawed.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
01-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
Jocks on Trialnew
Until Proven Innocent is a seething indictment of the individuals and institutions in Durham, North Carolina that conspired to put three demonstrably innocent lacrosse players in jail for 30 years.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Red Mutiny': Red Baitnew
Historian Neal Bascomb reclaims the Potemkin story from the twists of myth and propaganda to give us a rewarding, rip-roaring high-seas adventure set against the backdrop of the unravelling Romanov dynasty.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-09-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Italian Letter' Looks at Bush Administration's Dangerous Fakerynew
When the history of this gruesome war is finally written, people will marvel at how this shoddy forgery became such an effective weapon in the Bush administration's arsenal of lies.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
09-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Shock Doctrine' Deliversnew
Klein may be called a conspiracy theorist because she argues that greedy multinational corporations, rightist think tanks and neo-liberal governments are the designers of many international economic disasters, but even skeptics will be impressed by the weight of statistics, documentation and first-hand quotes she assembles to make her case.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
09-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
A Russian Toxic Shockernew
The murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London last year via a deadly dose of radioactive polonium, and the mystery of who and what was behind it, is ably told by former BBC Moscow correspondent Martin Sixsmith.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
08-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Interpreter': Criminal Injusticenew
A well-told story of death and injustice, one of many such tales that are part of the narrative of World War II.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
08-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
Mercenary Mightnew
Journalist Jeremy Scahill manages to lift the curtain on this secretive, highly armed group of freebooting mercenaries and in the process shows an even uglier side of a very ugly war.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
05-18-2007 |
Nonfiction
9/11 Explainednew
This brilliant examination of the decades leading up to 9/11 tells a story so improbable, savage and sad, it still seems impossible that it happened.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
03-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Medical Terrornew
This investigation takes the reader on an odyssey from Southern slave shacks to modern-day New York City, where medical investigators starved and bled young black males in a search for "the criminal gene."
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
02-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Southern Mannew
Tulia is a great book about the war on drugs and its ugly racist undertow.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-20-2006 |
Nonfiction
