AltWeeklies Wire
A New Coursenew
Reynolds proposes that post-punk turned away from the reactionary cul-de-sac that preceded it even while recognizing punk as "a chance to make a break with tradition."
The Village Voice |
Jessica Winter |
03-06-2006 |
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
Polymathically Perversenew
Jonathan Ames finds pleasure in any subject and every quarter -- including his own ass.
Seattle Weekly |
John Dicker |
02-08-2006 |
Nonfiction
Don't Ask, Don't Tellnew
A rising law-professor star's book analyzes the ways we pass.
The Village Voice |
Robert Ito |
01-18-2006 |
Nonfiction
Technical Knockout
Burke's portrait is a vivid, exhaustively researched and aptly deployed biography that brings Miller to life.
Washington City Paper |
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow |
01-06-2006 |
Nonfiction
Truth Squadnew
Intelligence expert Scott Ritter explains the WMD situation in his new book.
The Village Voice |
James Ridgeway |
01-04-2006 |
Nonfiction
Race to the Finish
The book provides a useful catalog of American ingenuity in the cause of ethnic purity.
Washington City Paper |
Bell Clement |
12-23-2005 |
Nonfiction
Nancy Had Two Mommiesnew
Nancy Drew has lasted 75 years as a childhood favorite. Melanie Rehak chronicles a character who influenced at least two generations of women in an exhaustive literary biography designed to give the perky teen her due.
Boston Phoenix |
Clea Simon |
12-20-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tales From the Wrongfully Convictednew
Surviving Justice, a collaboration between McSweeney's and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, is a well-researched exploration of America's unjust system of criminal conviction and exoneration.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
12-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Cluck Corporate Americanew
Two books get inside the big businesses of corporate farming and poultry production.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
10-26-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Marriage Coming-of-Age Storynew
The Commitment is a memoir sprinkled with polemic on gay marriage (in the absence of legal recognition) and gay family life (in the absence of established norms).
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Dan Savage, The Commitment
Whitewashnew
In his new autobiography, Jesse Helms sees himself as a humanitarian -- not a racist supporter of brutal right-wing regimes who turned obstructionism into a foreign policy.
INDY Week |
Barry Yeoman |
09-12-2005 |
Nonfiction
In It for the Mysterynew
Author Peter Stark kayaked the 750 kilometer Lugenda River -- largely unexplored and populated with crocodiles and hippos -- and recounts his adventure, and the history of the ones before his in his new book.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
07-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Passionate Aristocrat: Robert Lowell's Unvarnished Shop Talknew
This is unrevised Lowell, spiky, provocative, with signature strings of adjectives that must have delighted his correspondents.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
07-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Author Doesn't Apologize for Wal-Martnew
John Dicker is refreshing for his willingness to hold everyone's feet to the fire -- CEOs, customers and critics alike. He calls Wal-Mart "a macro-sized microcosm of many of America's biggest socioeconomic clusterfucks."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-09-2005 |
Nonfiction
