AltWeeklies Wire
Dudes Look Like a Maybenew
Journalist Charlie Leduff goes looking for the rugged American man -- and may be still looking for him.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
05-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Misleading Title, but an Apt Metaphornew
The memoir isn't so much about driving with dead people, although the author does describe joyriding in an empty hearse with her high-school friend, the local mortician's daughter.
Baltimore City Paper |
Nicole Leistikow |
04-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
Aging New Yorker Critic Fusty, Film at 11new
Culture vulture Clive James riffs on and off 20th century intellectual pugilists and bete noires.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
04-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
One Man's Warnew
Tale is told so plainly, forthrightly, and with such unveiled disclosure that it carries an indisputable moral authority that most of the political and media discourse surrounding this war lacks.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
04-02-2007 |
Nonfiction
Authenticity's Impossibilitiesnew
Faking It doesn't answer all the questions it raises but it's certain to inspire some awesome conversations among readers.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
04-02-2007 |
Nonfiction
Assume the Positionnew
Two professors tackle the pseudoscience of making an ass out of you and me.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
11-16-2006 |
Nonfiction
Body and Scrollnew
Saul Williams unpacks his vision of hip-hop's life lessons.
Baltimore City Paper |
Felicia Pride |
04-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Fortresses of Whitenessnew
This study of the thousands of all-white towns that banned blacks after sundown is marred by classic blame-the-victim rhetoric.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
11-15-2005 |
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
Dire Educationnew
Jonathan Kozol’s latest book fires off a crucial wake-up call for rapidly resegregating public school systems.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
09-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
Apocalypse Soonnew
New books by Jared Diamond and Christopher D. Cook parse out details of the end of the world as we know it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
01-26-2005 |
Nonfiction
Masterpiecenew
Despite some psychological overreaching, this new biography of 20th century art giant Willem de Kooning stands as the definitive account of his genius and turbulent life.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
01-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
Travels With Charleynew
Novelist Peter Carey took his son to Japan and all he got were these lousy insights.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Carberry |
01-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
Village Voice Writer Chronicles Woman's Life after Prisonnew
Released after 16 years in prison, Elaine Bartlett finds that the family she longed to rejoin has many troubles. Gonnerman describes the ex-convict's plight in writing that is plain and sometimes a bit dull, but this book has some remarkable sections and memorable moments.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
