AltWeeklies Wire
Fall Nonfiction: Tomes From The 'Fact' Departmentnew
It's the economy, stupid. Or maybe politics or literature. Fall nonfiction goes wide and deep, so plan for some marathon reading.
Boston Phoenix |
Barbara Hoffert |
09-17-2009 |
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Two New Books Try to Explain How We Lost a Truly Productive Economynew
The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, and Alan Beattie's False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World try to explain how we got here.
The Texas Observer |
Anis Shivani |
06-17-2009 |
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The Dread Zone: It's the Only Thing We Have to Fearnew
Despite years of religious instruction by well-meaning priests, nuns, and lay ministers, as well as my own family, on that dark night of the soul long ago, it occurred to me that as nice a story as that made, it was a bit far-fetched. I realized that not only was death absolutely real and directly applicable to me, but that death most probably meant, well, death. As in lights out. Game over. It meant you no longer were.
Charleston City Paper |
Jason A. Zwiker |
12-21-2008 |
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Winter Reading: 58 Reasons to Be Anti-socialnew
What we squeeze into Winter Reading each year is not a best-of list, exactly, though we do strive to include those books we want to recommend to friends, parents, anyone with a pair of eyes. It's more of a case for reading, for sharing the wonders of a good story.
Eugene Weekly |
Staff and freelancers |
12-16-2008 |
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