AltWeeklies Wire
Thomas Frank Returns With New Book About the Billionairesnew
"Democrats really failed to speak to the new angry sensibility in the country. And Obama's personality is almost precisely wrong for the populist moment—he really has trouble turning on that emotion."
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
01-04-2012 |
Nonfiction
Books for Cooksnew
Volumes of food porn, kitchen science and gastronomic philosophy that earn their place on the shelf.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
12-22-2011 |
Nonfiction
Philip K. Dick Keeps it (Un)real:new
Hollywood's favorite sci-fi writer didn't think it was all fiction.
Metro Times |
Aaron Mondry |
12-02-2011 |
Nonfiction
Picking on Papanew
David Ray's Hemingway biography-in-verse sermonizes on a great writer's failings.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
10-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
Borders and Bridgesnew
Peter Laufer makes the case that the border wall is too much like the Berlin Wall.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
10-17-2011 |
Nonfiction
Poor, Minorities Magnets for Industrial 'Sacrifice Zones'new
Grappling with how to own up to the toxic legacy of uranium mining and nuclear weapons processing in the United States, government officials coined the cold term "sacrifice zones" in the 1980s.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-12-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: steve lerner
Naked Winenew
Alice Feiring wants to convince you that "naked wine" is better.
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
09-28-2011 |
Nonfiction
What Comes After Black?new
Cultural critic and author Touré explores the concept of post-blackness in his new book.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
09-26-2011 |
Nonfiction
Social Insecuritynew
In 2001, Nickel and Dimed got rapturous reviews for its exposure of the invisible poor; 10 years later, the groundbreaking investigation feels like usiness as usual.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
09-22-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Barbara Ehrenreich
Book review: Preston Lauterbach's The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Rollnew
One thing about the "roots of rock & roll"... is that those roots were tangled, down and dirty, definitely "underground," and nearly always an antidote for "respectable" mainstream culture — which also means that the club owners and promoters were often found on the wrong side of the law.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
09-19-2011 |
Nonfiction
Jennifer Shaw’s ‘Hurricane Story’new
Photographs of children’s toys threw yet another fatiguing stain of kitsch into the cultural wash over the last decade.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
09-07-2011 |
Nonfiction
Duke Professor Cathy Davidson's Powerful Now You See Itnew
By looking at the historical and philosophical underpinnings of the modern school and workplace, Davidson makes a persuasive case for her book's subtitle: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.
INDY Week |
Marc Maximov |
08-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Cathy Davidson
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matternew
Gamers are typically no sufferers of hardship.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
08-19-2011 |
Nonfiction
Parasite Therapy: Rob Dunn's The Wild Life of Our Bodiesnew
One increasingly tenable theory holds that the disproportionate prevalence of a spectrum of disorders in affluent nations -- from allergies and asthma to diabetes and Crohn's disease -- may be because we miss our worms.
INDY Week |
Marc Maximov |
08-17-2011 |
Nonfiction
You Must Go and Win
Black Soviet humor pervades this collection of essays by struggling musician Alina Simone.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
