AltWeeklies Wire
'Global Warring': The Geopolitics of Climate Changenew
The Earth is warming. Fact. Weather patterns are changing. Undeniable. We’re all in a heap of trouble. Uh-huh. And we’re all doing our best to deal with it. Nope. According to Montrealer Cleo Paskal, the world governments are snoozing while the world boils.
NOW Magazine |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
01-29-2010 |
Nonfiction
'Poorly Made' Looks at China's Export Manufacturing Industrynew
Hired as a middleman for Western importers and Chinese manufacturers, Paul Midler unveils the schemes concocted by China's factory owners to make a profit from inferior goods in this investigative travelogue.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
09-14-2009 |
Nonfiction
Once-Respected Physicist Frank Tipler Goes Off the Deep End in Latest Booknew
Tipler's main thesis in The Physics of Christianity is that the tenets of Christianity, from the Virgin Birth to the coming Apocalypse, can all be explained by physics -- no faith required.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
11-24-2008 |
Nonfiction
Mafiaboy Finally Writes About Being the World's Most Notorious Hackernew
In Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet And Why It's Still Broken, Michael Calce and his writing buddy Craig Silverman have delivered a fun retrospective on the hacking underworld at the dawn of the new millennium.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
Putin Power Playnew
Today Russia has returned a stronger, richer and more confident nation, having barely survived the plundering of its wealth and the impoverishment of its people during the drunken reign of Boris Yeltsin. But Russia's resurrection has come at a high price.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
09-22-2008 |
Nonfiction
Shashi Tharoor Examines the Changing Culture of Indianew
The book, a collection of essays Tharoor wrote for the Times of India and other publications, has no clearly defined thesis or narrative, yet is packed full of insightful commentary on India’s rapidly changing cultural landscape.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
08-26-2008 |
Nonfiction
No 'Hero' Here in Jason Peter's Memoirnew
Peter reveals his own darkest moments of drug abuse, but it's almost unforgivable that he sweeps under the rug the fact that his brother Christian, who guided him during those glory years at Nebraska, was at the center of a notorious case of athlete protectionism.
NOW Magazine |
Jason Keller |
08-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
On October 27, 1962, the World Nearly Came to an Endnew
Much has been written about the ultimate crisis of the Cold War, but Michael Dobbs' account vividly captures the white-knuckled anxiety that gripped the White House and the Kremlin during those dark days.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
07-28-2008 |
Nonfiction
'The Drunkard's Walk' Admirably Intros Statistics and Probabilitynew
It helps that as a science writer, Leonard Mlodinow has a PhD in physics and did a stint writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
NOW Magazine |
David Jager |
07-21-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Hiding in Hip Hop' Offers a Glimpse of the Troubles of a Young Black Bisexualnew
Dean laments that the world is not yet ready to face the truth about black gay/lesbian celebrities’ sexuality.
NOW Magazine |
Addi Stewart |
06-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
Sonic Youth Bio Could Use a Little Spicenew
Author David Browne quickly torpedoes our hopes for sordid tales of Sonic Youth's backstage bacchanals and unbridled substance abuse, writing early on, "Do not expect any sex, drugs and rock and roll."
NOW Magazine |
Jason Keller |
06-16-2008 |
Nonfiction
Carly Simon in the Same Breath as Carole King and Joni Mitchell?new
Vogue and Vanity Fair journalist Sheila Weller's thorough and well-written triple biography is less an attempt to put these singer/songwriters on the same artistic plane than it is to connect them to key moments in contemporary women’s history.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
06-16-2008 |
Nonfiction
Julie Doucet Exposes Herself in '365 Days'new
Doucet's visual diary 365 Days is an intimate look into the minutiae of everything she went through over a full year.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
05-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
Author Mary Roach Moves from Death to Sexnew
She has a very casual style of writing, yet it lends itself well to science reporting and her survey of the world of sex research.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
04-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Hungry Ghosts' is a Powerful & Compassionate Worknew
Gabor Mate's book is a nuanced and complex meditation on what opium-eater Thomas de Quincy called the "abiding darkness."
NOW Magazine |
Lauren Kirschner |
03-21-2008 |
Nonfiction
