AltWeeklies Wire
Into the Light, Fantasticnew
A bit of a meditative melange, yet also a compact guide to the highlights of American medical innovations.
Washington City Paper |
Eve Ottenberg |
03-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Kid Stays in the Picturenew
Wallis is the first biographer to really bring Billy to life.
Washington City Paper |
Allen Barra |
03-09-2007 |
Nonfiction
Reeling in the Yearsnew
Sheffield can make Pavement sound brand-new while reminding his readers that time is fleeting, and that loved ones need hugs more than anyone needs an expanded reissue of Slanted and Enchanted.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
01-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Love You Long Time Agonew
A forceful indictment of America's discomfort with its own masculinity.
Washington City Paper |
Ian Martinez |
01-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Clever and Stupidnew
Vaughan broadens an already somewhat loose definition of MacGyverism to encompass "acts of improvised genius, period."
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
12-08-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tilted Artnew
A needlessly dry work, never really generating the level of interest warranted by the lively and often lurid subject matter, Visual Shock reads like a text for a college survey course.
Washington City Paper |
Adam Mazmanian |
11-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
Plucked Outnew
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game would be a dreadful work of fiction, a Disneyfied, feel-good failure. But Michael Lewis writes nonfiction, and hilarity, for the most part, doesn’t ensue.
Washington City Paper |
Ryan Grim |
10-27-2006 |
Nonfiction
Get Your Motor Running
However rock-star he might have gone, Desmedt's skill as an artist is undeniable.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
08-25-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Indian Larry, Timothy White
Words Worth
Rock-star linguist Geoffrey Nunberg delivers not only the most tongue-trippingly truculent subtitle of the year but also a fresh and well-argued take on the Democrats' so-called "messaging problem."
Washington City Paper |
Aaron Britt |
07-28-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Geoffrey Nunberg, Talking Right
Gangs of D.C.
This book is charming, because Continetti approaches his subjects with an innocence that can't be anything but.
Washington City Paper |
Ryan Grim |
07-28-2006 |
Nonfiction
Q and Not A
Should a talented journalist be prizing uncertainty over answers?
Washington City Paper |
Dave Jamieson |
06-12-2006 |
Nonfiction
Cost Conscious
The contributors come to bury Wal-Mart, not to praise it.
Washington City Paper |
Bell Clement |
03-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Bruckheimer Conspiracy
The book's high concept falls a bit short of its mark.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
All Economics Is Local
Harford's pop-ec book is the latest sign that we're living in the decade of economics.
Washington City Paper |
Jandos Rothstein |
02-17-2006 |
Nonfiction
Workin' for The Man
Dan Kieren maps out the tragic specifics of exactly how much jobs suck.
Washington City Paper |
Dave Nuttycombe |
02-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
