AltWeeklies Wire
'MAD' Men: 'The Wolverton Bible' and 'Humbug'new
Two new books published by Fantagraphics capture sides of artists that went unexposed under the auspices of Alfred E. Neuman, which makes them all the more appealing.
San Antonio Current |
John Defore |
03-18-2009 |
Nonfiction
Exhaustive Book Tells Us How a Group of TV Innovators Got to 'Sesame Street'new
Michael Davis' Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street is broad in scope yet exercises a meticulous attention to detail. This meticulousness turns out to be essential because of the number of story threads that are un-teased to paint Davis’ picture.
San Antonio Current |
Molly O'Donnell |
03-04-2009 |
Nonfiction
Tripping through the 'Twilight Zone'new
Not merely a puff piece, Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone portrays a complex view of the famed auteur.
San Antonio Current |
Rick Klaw |
02-04-2009 |
Nonfiction
'The Oxford Project' Uses Photography as a Kind of Time Machinenew
Ultimately, The Oxford Project is an homage to Americana, a photographic record of small-town America and the story of intertwined lives. It is about history, personal and collective, and that ubiquitous force: change. This book, like the facets of human features, is so intriguing, it is nearly impossible to put down.
San Antonio Current |
Lyle Rosdahl |
11-13-2008 |
Nonfiction
'What Men Call Treasure': Postmodern Goldnew
The book, nonfiction, relies heavily on fictional techniques for its success.
San Antonio Current |
Lyle Rosdahl |
09-17-2008 |
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
'Changing Climate of South Texas' Shows Weather's Not a Jokenew
Bypassing the innocuously academic title, the choice of cover art — an apocalyptic, peyote-button projection of gathering sand storms and fence-crashing dunes sweeping away telephone lines, railroad tracks, and the determinedly rigid frame of a desert homestead — is a revealing visceral grab.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Visual Shock' Explains Art-World Politicsnew
It's really valuable to have a well-researched, intelligent, even-handed, and educated analysis of the art controversies that have shaped the larger social politics of our often provincial-minded
Superpower of a nation.
San Antonio Current |
Diana Lyn Roberts |
01-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Rehabilitation of Joe McCarthynew
Evans' book is the latest in a revisionist school of thought that casts McCarthy, not the people he investigated, as the true victim.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
It Takes a (Mexican) Villagenew
Will the new critical biography of Josefina Niggli compel Chicana and Chicano writers to embrace her as their literary madrina?
San Antonio Current |
Pablo Miguel Martinez |
10-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
Upright Mennew
A history of impotence says guys made the ruler they measure themselves by.
San Antonio Current |
Nick Gillespie |
05-03-2007 |
Nonfiction
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
