AltWeeklies Wire
Stories in Sepia Tonesnew
Ten years of research powers a compelling biography of a Western pioneer.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
12-13-2012 |
Nonfiction
The Idea of the Savagenew
A UA law professor looks at almost 3,000 years of Western ethnocentrism
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
10-04-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Robert A. Williams Jr.
Cats and the Cooknew
Julia Child's love of felines is detailed in this book, co-written by Tucsonan Patricia Barey.
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
09-20-2012 |
Nonfiction
Arizona's Progressive Daysnew
A retired Arizona State University professor looks back at Arizona's populist roots.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
09-10-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Labor
Migratory Mutationnew
A 'cancer gene' is at the heart of this tale of history, family and heartbreak.
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
06-25-2012 |
Nonfiction
The Green in Ganjanew
'Dealing Death and Drugs' shows the human costs of the drug war -- and the importance of marijuana to cartels.
Tucson Weekly |
Greg Harman |
04-26-2012 |
Nonfiction
Picking on Papanew
David Ray's Hemingway biography-in-verse sermonizes on a great writer's failings.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
10-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
Borders and Bridgesnew
Peter Laufer makes the case that the border wall is too much like the Berlin Wall.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
10-17-2011 |
Nonfiction
The Rise of Phoenixnew
'Desert Visions' may be the definitive history of Arizona's capital city.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
05-04-2011 |
Nonfiction
Riparian Revival?new
Ken Lamberton shows the oft-maligned Santa Cruz River some much-deserved love.
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
04-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ken Lamberton, Santa Cruz River
In-Betweennew
Jim Kristofic's biographical essays detail his life as a white kid in the Navajo Nation.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
03-03-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Jim Kristofic, Navajos Wear Nikes
'A Volume of Friendship': Two Great American Womennew
The friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway offers lessons that remain relevant.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
04-15-2010 |
Nonfiction
David Delgado Shorter Beautifully Tells Portions of the Yaqui/Yoeme Talenew
Out of money and needing to get to San Carlos, my brother and I thumbed it from the Obregon City bus station. I wouldn't pick up those scruffy, half-inebriated gringos today, and I probably wouldn't have stopped back then, more than 10 years ago. But it didn't take long to find a ride.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
03-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Miss O'Dell Dishes on Music Legendsnew
A new book by tour manager Chris O'Dell tells behind-the-scenes details of the '60s/'70s music world.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
12-02-2009 |
Nonfiction
'Sweet Smell' is an Intimate Portrait of a Distinctive Tohono O'odham Artistnew
In the affecting, beautifully illustrated oral history of the local artist's life and work, The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana, his distinctive voice is paired with his even more distinctive art to create a very intimate portrait of Chana, who died of neurocysticercosis in 2004 at the criminally young age of 54.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
10-29-2009 |
Nonfiction
