AltWeeklies Wire
Intensive TMInew
If you don't really want to know what the boot-in-bush ritual is (hint: yes, it's exactly what you think), then this isn't the book for you.
Dig Boston |
Mason Stewart |
11-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
A Daydream Nationnew
Marcus is nostalgic for an America that was never more than a fantasy.
Chicago Reader |
Jessica Hopper |
11-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
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
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
What Killed Gary?new
One writer offers a personal take on the new book about Gary Webb.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
11-16-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Kill the Messenger, Nick Schou
Tainted With Hypocrisynew
What unites these otherwise disparate essays is Siegel's suspicion of those critics who have forgotten their obligation to "expose the shams" -- I guess Siegel forgot that he who casts the first stone is supposed to be without sin.
New York Press |
Juliet Lapidos |
11-16-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Lee Siegel, Falling Upwards
A True Crimenew
Lueders details how a rape victim wound up being treated like a criminal.
Chicago Reader |
Linda Lutton |
11-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Bill Lueders, Cry Rape
Rudolph At Restnew
This new book completes the bomber's arch.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
11-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Lone Wolf, Maryanne Vollers
Tilted Artnew
A needlessly dry work, never really generating the level of interest warranted by the lively and often lurid subject matter, Visual Shock reads like a text for a college survey course.
Washington City Paper |
Adam Mazmanian |
11-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
Scrapbooking on Drugsnew
Love's book is like a reality TV show scribbled in cursive on cocktail napkins; it's an autobiography but without a narrative or plot.
Fairfield County Weekly |
Jessica Wakeman |
11-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Courtney Love, Dirty Blonde
Evolutionary Apostasynew
Charles Darwin wasn't born to beef with God, but his insights continue to rock the religious.
Missoula Independent |
Jason Wiener |
11-09-2006 |
Nonfiction
Skin Deepnew
While denying that all thoughts are worthy of equal respect, Michaels makes a rankling contribution to the diversity of contemporary thought.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-08-2006 |
Nonfiction
Hell for Dummiesnew
The Vice Guide to Travel takes you to Chernobyl, the Congo, the worst slums of Rio and other places you'll likely never go.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
11-03-2006 |
Nonfiction
Erudite and Wittynew
It's especially nice to see that someone who's part of the landed gentry is still willing to look at our country honestly and tackle its worst demons head-on.
New York Press |
Christopher Atamian |
11-02-2006 |
Nonfiction
Plucked Outnew
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game would be a dreadful work of fiction, a Disneyfied, feel-good failure. But Michael Lewis writes nonfiction, and hilarity, for the most part, doesn’t ensue.
Washington City Paper |
Ryan Grim |
10-27-2006 |
Nonfiction
