AltWeeklies Wire
Daddy's Girlsnew
You might pick up this book expecting some of Canada's best-known female writers to deliver accounts of trauma and brutalization at the hands of their fathers -- forget about it; these dads are for the most part inspiring or benign.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
05-18-2007 |
Nonfiction
9/11 Explainednew
This brilliant examination of the decades leading up to 9/11 tells a story so improbable, savage and sad, it still seems impossible that it happened.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
03-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Big Hairy Dealnew
American Hair Metal allows us to visually recall a movement and aesthetic that dominated the Western world, then disappeared virtually overnight -- it's amazing that something so bizarre, self-indulgent and wankerish can be so beautiful.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
03-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: American Hair Metal, Steven Blush
Medical Terrornew
This investigation takes the reader on an odyssey from Southern slave shacks to modern-day New York City, where medical investigators starved and bled young black males in a search for "the criminal gene."
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
02-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Notes on Fluiditynew
There are a few too many stories by folks who think they're the first to have a complex identity, but I guarantee that no other anthology this year includes a bio that reads "white academic living as a black asshole."
NOW Magazine |
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk |
01-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Mattilda, Nobody Passes
Islam Modernizednew
Though Hassan's book is a bit of a stodgy read, the ideas are exciting -- a dialogue about and amongst Muslim women is essential for Islam's survival and the furtherance of women's rights.
NOW Magazine |
Mary-Lou Zeitoun |
01-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tender Merciesnew
Walking is a transformative read for anyone who has ever thought about what it means to forgive.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
12-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
Inspiration in Iraqnew
This book is a testament to and inspiration for those who seek to revive and rejuvenate a human spirit battered by shock and awe, attrition and insanity.
NOW Magazine |
Robert Priest |
12-18-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Don't Shoot the Clowns, Jo Wilding
Southern Mannew
Tulia is a great book about the war on drugs and its ugly racist undertow.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-20-2006 |
Nonfiction
Giuliani Exposednew
Out of the smoke and death at ground zero, one deeply flawed man climbed so high he might be able to run for president.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
09-08-2006 |
Nonfiction
Food for Thoughtnew
When Wal-Mart's charisma-challenged CEO starts touting organic food, you know the stuff is no longer the domain of back-to-the-land hippies.
NOW Magazine |
John Dicker |
08-04-2006 |
Nonfiction
Holocaust Hauntsnew
By piecing together her past in drawings and words, Eisenstein begins to understand how being a child of Holocaust survivors has made her the person she is.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
05-18-2006 |
Nonfiction
Lest We Forgetnew
Feminism lives in this new book.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
03-30-2006 |
Nonfiction
Liberated at Lastnew
Grossman, a long-forgotten chronicler of the cruellest years of the bloodiest war in history, turned slaughter to literature in simple and shattering terms.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
03-16-2006 |
Nonfiction
Error-Prone Snobnew
Kamp's new book smells like a publisher-mandated sequel, and it doesn't work as well as his the Rock Snob's Dictionary.
NOW Magazine |
John Harkness |
03-02-2006 |
Nonfiction
