AltWeeklies Wire
Dumb and Dumbernew
The Occupation is one of the most concise, well-written portraits of Iraq on shelves today.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
03-20-2007 |
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
An Original and Incisive Essay Collectionnew
A book by a poet about poetry should, above all, excite readers about poems, and that's what The Napkin Manuscripts does best.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
03-15-2007 |
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
A Reductionist Take on Media Reformnew
What bothers me so much about Chester is that I share his passion for issues of media choice and personal privacy, but he makes enormous logical leaps and engages in gross oversimplification and ad-hominem attacks.
San Antonio Current |
Aaron Delwiche |
03-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Working Lifenew
Gonzalez examines roots of our love affair with Mexican labor.
OC Weekly |
Gustavo Arellano |
03-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Ace' in the Holenew
David Matthews interweaves tales of Baltimore blacks, Jews and blues in his memoir.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ace of Spades, David Matthews
The Kid Stays in the Picturenew
Wallis is the first biographer to really bring Billy to life.
Washington City Paper |
Allen Barra |
03-09-2007 |
Nonfiction
Fishing Linesnew
Jeff Hull's powerful first-person narratives of fishing with depressed patients, family and friends and ultimately himself.
Missoula Independent |
Joe Campana |
03-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Planning for a Post-Carbon Worldnew
Think James Howard Kunstler meets Home Improvement's Tim Allen.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
03-07-2007 |
Nonfiction
Power to the Cluelessnew
The politics of bisexuality aren't as complicated as you'd think.
Chicago Reader |
Noah Berlatsky |
03-06-2007 |
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
Who's Choosing the News?new
No one denies the media landscape is changing, but Eric Klinenberg's new book doesn't shed much light on how and why.
Chicago Reader |
Harold Henderson |
02-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Dr. Luntzenstein
In Words That Work, is Frank Luntz trying to kill the monster he created or just get people to stop calling him Orwellian?
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
02-23-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Frank Luntz, Words That Work
Send in the Clownnew
It takes a political satirist to explain the father of capitalism.
Chicago Reader |
Chris Barsanti |
02-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
