AltWeeklies Wire
'My Best Friend': Friends You Can Count On One Handnew
It is the kind of sprightly European import that will do well enough at local box offices to inspire an American version that, because marketed in English, will outperform the original.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
08-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
Pace Foods Heiress and Art Patron Diesnew
Linda Pace, dream in peace.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-05-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
'Landsman': A Separate Warnew
A marooned Jewish Southerner finds his conscience under the Confederate flag.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
06-25-2007 |
Fiction
'The Page Turner': Right-hand Revengenew
A spurned child prodigy seeks retribution in a so-so French thriller.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-23-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Denis Dercourt, The Page Turner
Who's Afraid of Ralph Nader?new
In his stubborn refusal to accept an imperfect world, Nader is eminently unreasonable.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-09-2007 |
Reviews
The Death of the Books Sectionnew
Book reviews are conversation that constitutes a culture -- when we are silent about William Gass and J. M. Coetzee our culture is in crisis.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-09-2007 |
Books
Cherry Picking Abstinencenew
Virginity is just another social construct, according to Hanne Blank.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
04-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
Electing a President Proportionallynew
Why we should move up the primary and then some.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
04-04-2007 |
Commentary
Texas Coup d'Etatnew
An election-law attorney details Tom DeLay's GOP engineering.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
03-29-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Sea Around Hernew
This succinct volume traces Silent Spring author Rachel Carson's life, from her birth near Pittsburgh in 1907 to her death in Maryland in 1964.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
03-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
If Art Is a Lie, Then Tell Me a Talenew
On Truth is not so much a sequel as a prequel or, in more formal terms, a prolegomenon to On Bullshit.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
01-10-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Harry G. Frankfurt, On Truth
The Beagle Bites Backnew
Levine is not cowed by caricatures of Darwin as the man who claimed that a human is just a monkey's nephew -- rather, he takes more seriously Max Weber's contention that modern, reductionist science has expelled meaning and value from the world.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
01-03-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Darwin Loves You, George Levine
Arabian Nights, American Centuriesnew
Oren's history of the Middle East finds U.S. adventurers, bounders, and dreamers of every persuasion.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-20-2006 |
Nonfiction
Suffer, the Little Childrennew
If real children had voted in the recent election, Governor Perry and his fellow ageist politicians might have been more intent on actually serving the younger citizens of Texas.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-15-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: 2006elect
Skin Deepnew
While denying that all thoughts are worthy of equal respect, Michaels makes a rankling contribution to the diversity of contemporary thought.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-08-2006 |
Nonfiction
