AltWeeklies Wire
War and Peacenew
Since September 11, publishers have been rushing to publish non-fiction books about anything relating to the upheavals in the Middle East. They've been much slower about supplying us with imaginative tales from these regions, but the trickle has begun.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
01-03-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors
Car Talknew
Like many another Jewish writer before him, Rafi Zabor sees family as an epic subject. But a more apt comparison than Saul Bellow is jazz. Zabor writes and riffs -- each tonal shift leading to another alliterative romp.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
12-13-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir, Rafi Zabor
Fall Books Defy Disasternew
This coming fall and winter are thin on fiction but large on hulking works of non-fiction that might help us catch up with this runaway bobsled called planet Earth.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
09-27-2005 |
Books
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