AltWeeklies Wire
The 'Silk Road' Has Dark Shadowsnew
While central Asia enters its biggest changes in what might be a millennium, Thubron decided to re-travel the pathway by which silk once moved, from China, across Afghanistan, across Iran and into Turkey, and from there the wider world.
Chicago Newcity |
John Freeman |
08-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Milton McGriff, the Free Radicalnew
In his grim new novel, the ex-Black Panther looks to the past to find the future.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Joel Tannenbaum |
08-07-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 2236, Milton McGriff
'The Interpreter': Criminal Injusticenew
A well-told story of death and injustice, one of many such tales that are part of the narrative of World War II.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
08-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Unprintable Chomskynew
Say what one will about his ideas, Chomsky has taken this mandate seriously, even as his criticisms of U.S. power have marginalized him.
Chicago Newcity |
John Freeman |
08-01-2007 |
Nonfiction
Chicago Underground Librarynew
Cataloguing a cultural moment, indie style.
Chicago Newcity |
Maude Standish |
08-01-2007 |
Books
'Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick'new
Thomas Bewick, a wood engraver in England helped nurture the public's interest in nature.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Michael S. Gant |
08-01-2007 |
Nonfiction
Al Gore: 21st Century Founding Fathernew
Americans are no longer used to frank, substantive political discourse - the thesis of Gore's Assault on Reason.
New Haven Advocate |
Evan Brown |
07-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
Relative Stranger: The Other Einstein Biographynew
The man behind the icon in Neffe's new biography.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
07-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Boy Who ...new
A spoiler-free look at the end of J.K. Rowling's magical tale.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
07-31-2007 |
Fiction
Spit Shine: 'Confessions of a Wallstreet Shoeshine Boy'new
A vivid portrait of a world run by those who mostly don't notice the little people, even when they are walking all over them.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
07-31-2007 |
Fiction
Of People and Plastics in Printnew
A funny but humbling exploration of what would happen to New York City if humans were gone, wiped out by a virus or a wizard who perfected a way to sterilize our sperm.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
07-30-2007 |
Fiction
Novelist Lance Olsen Casts an Eye on Kafka's Insectnew
An enduring literary rumor has it that Gregor Samsa -- the young cloth-salesman who wakes up to find himself possessed of vaguely "numerous" legs and a hard-plated back -- is, specifically, a cockroach.
Willamette Week |
Mark Cunningham |
07-30-2007 |
Fiction
'The Book of Ocean': An Odyssey of Imaginationnew
Larkin's first book is a prism of paradox, a poetry aware of its own disguise.
Townes Van Zandt's Bayou Selfnew
Kruth assembled the debut biography on the legendary songwriter with a jazz player's loose sense of structure and a songwriter's ear for the music in human speech -- it's a good, riveting read.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Cynthia Shearer |
07-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
'A Private House': Cuban Reverienew
This fabulous read -- part travelogue, part thriller -- leads us through the white-hot, crumbling streets of Old Havana and the cool, spiked darkness of the labyrinthine back streets where Cubans live and dream.
NOW Magazine |
Lesley McAllister |
07-27-2007 |
Fiction
