AltWeeklies Wire
'A Rebel Life' Remembers Molly Ivinsnew
In First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family, Bill Minutaglio deciphered Dubya's career as a campaign of filial devotion and rebellion. Turning now to Bush's spunkiest critic, Minutaglio interprets Ivins as similarly driven by resentment toward her overbearing, overachieving father.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
10-21-2009 |
Nonfiction
Graham Vickers Examines the Causes and Consequences of 'Lolita'new
Less concerned with text than context, Vickers provides a lively account of the climate in which the novel was produced and received.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
08-13-2008 |
Nonfiction
Siblings Different as Apples and Orangesnew
In Apples and Oranges, a memoir of sibling discord within her own family, Marie Brenner applies her skills as an investigative reporter to trying to fathom and repair her strained relationship with Carl. Jumping about in space and time, her memoir challenges the reader to find design amid absences and missed connections.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-28-2008 |
Nonfiction
'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 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
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
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
Memory of Texas Political Giants Malingers Onnew
Beyond its veiled allusions to familiar people, places and events, Waterloo is that rare accomplishment, a provincial fiction that finds the universe in a grain of Texas silt.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
08-25-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Karen Olsson, Waterloo
