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Bad Consciencenew
Getting stared at by six eyeballs is unnerving, but stick the words "The Sociopath Next Door" on top and those stares turn Ted Bundy-creepy. The title -- and the cover design -- of Martha Stout's new book isn't exactly delicate, but given the topic, why should it be?
Boston Phoenix |
Amy Finch |
05-23-2005 |
Nonfiction
Days Of The Wu: The RZA Looks Inside The Clannew
The Manual provides insight into a collective that became ever denser by explaining the Wu philosophies and the Wu connection with film, fashion and comic books. It also prints annotated lyrics to some of the group's most popular songs.
Boston Phoenix |
Sam Pfeifle |
04-28-2005 |
Nonfiction
Memoir Covers the Author's Struggle to Believe and Morenew
David Plante descends from Ernest Hemingway and writes a high American plain style with a personality all its own. In his memoir American Ghosts, he quotes a passage from Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and his prose stands up to it.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
03-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: American Ghosts, David Plante
A Beautiful Mindnew
Again, Malcolm Gladwell is able to cross one discipline after another, one subset of behavioral psychology after another.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
02-03-2005 |
Nonfiction
Our True Storiesnew
Ten of the best non-fiction works covered by the Phoenix in 2004, including books by Bob Dylan, Art Spiegelman, Alain de Botton, and Rachel Cohen.
Boston Phoenix |
Phoenix reviewers |
12-29-2004 |
Nonfiction
Troubled Master: Willem de Kooning's art and lifenew
De Kooning achieved fame late in a turbulent life dedicated to women, drink, and work, work, work.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
11-22-2004 |
Nonfiction
Dylan's Chronicles: Dropped Chords Just Don't Matternew
Dylan's new memoir carries one along on a tidal surge of storytelling, of memory and scenic detail.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
10-22-2004 |
Nonfiction
World Travelernew
Susan Orlean knows that stories lurk everywhere, in day-to-day drear as well as on mountaintops on the other side of the planet.
Boston Phoenix |
Amy Finch |
10-19-2004 |
Nonfiction
With Liberalism and Justice for Allnew
George W. Bush has liberals so hopping mad that all the heaviest hitters among them seem to be publishing books this year, among them Hendrik Hertzberg, E.J. Dionne Jr., Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd and Eric Alterman. Which ones to read?
Boston Phoenix |
Dave Denison |
09-24-2004 |
Nonfiction
The Kings of Comedynew
The felicitous Library of America collection Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies is a tribute not only to George S. Kaufman, but to the four most gifted in a long line of co-writers.
Boston Phoenix |
Steve Vineberg |
09-24-2004 |
Nonfiction
God's Countrynew
Thomas Frank engages the most important political question of our time: why do so many of America’s working poor vote persistently against their own economic interests?
Boston Phoenix |
Catherine Tumber |
07-27-2004 |
Nonfiction
That ’90s Shownew
Its dubious literary merits aside, Bill Clinton’s My Life sparks nostalgia for a decade of peace, prosperity and presidential sex.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
07-08-2004 |
Nonfiction
Cool Consolationnew
The author's insights float on a kind light irony that he creates by mixing a mastery of English prose sentences with lemon-twisted locutions that sound translated -- like pixilated Barthes.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
06-10-2004 |
Nonfiction
