AltWeeklies Wire
A Burmese Trianglenew
Despite Connelly's clear emotional affinity for the struggle of Burmese democracy activists, she steers clear of didacticism, expertly balancing a sense of the larger political picture with details of the personal struggles of the protagonists.
Washington City Paper |
Rayyan Al-Shawaf |
03-23-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Karen Connelly, The Lizard Cage
Everybody Is All-Americannew
Andersen hasn't created something new in regard to the American historical novel, but he has presented it in a new (gas)light.
Washington City Paper |
Allen Barra |
03-02-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Heyday, Kurt Andersen
Daddy Dearestnew
For all the intelligence and care that Clinch has brought to getting the story right, Finn's final moral -- that racism is hateful and self-consuming -- feels shopworn.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Athitakis |
02-23-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Finn, Jon Clinch
What Would Dave Do?new
Self displays a remarkable ability to mesh the torments of father-son relationships with a satire of religious misogyny, painstakingly constructing a future society along the way.
Washington City Paper |
Rayyan Al-Shawaf |
01-26-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: The Book of Dave, Will Self
I Love the 90s, Again
This potpourri could easily slouch toward sentimentality, and it occasionally does, but Charles' somewhat heavy hand produces not only a convincing, pitiable sketch of a teenager but also a disarming main character.
Washington City Paper |
Shauna Cowal |
08-25-2006 |
Fiction
Dollars to Doughnuts
Apparently there's an identity crisis in corporate America -- and it involves doughnuts.
Washington City Paper |
Ian Martinez |
02-03-2006 |
Fiction
'Ette Tu?
Made-up stories about unsensational bastards are, in the end, just too boring for words.
Washington City Paper |
Brian Beutler |
01-13-2006 |
Fiction
