AltWeeklies Wire
Who's Choosing the News?new
No one denies the media landscape is changing, but Eric Klinenberg's new book doesn't shed much light on how and why.
Chicago Reader |
Harold Henderson |
02-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
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
Dr. Luntzenstein
In Words That Work, is Frank Luntz trying to kill the monster he created or just get people to stop calling him Orwellian?
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
02-23-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Frank Luntz, Words That Work
'Big' Funnew
This story just rocks -- it's part potboiler, part love story and all heart.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
02-23-2007 |
Fiction
Day Before Tomorrow: Cory Doctorow's Techno-Presentnew
In an era when the wonders of modern technology exceed our imaginations, boingboing.net co-editor Cory Doctorow understands that to write about the future, you have to write about the present.
Pressing the Issuenew
Gene Roberts talks about The Race Beat, a protracted inquiry into the purposes of journalism, a probing social and cultural history, and a meditation on the value of "objectivity."
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
02-22-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Homogenous Continentnew
Alarcon channels South America, but won't pinpoint it on a map.
Willamette Week |
Lisa Hoashi |
02-21-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Daniel Alarcon, Lost City Radio
Rhyme & Rhythmnew
Director Stephen Gyllenhaal makes the jump from filmmaker to wordsmith in his debut collection of poetry.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
02-20-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Send in the Clownnew
It takes a political satirist to explain the father of capitalism.
Chicago Reader |
Chris Barsanti |
02-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Slams at the Slaughternew
A debate grows within the black poetry movement.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Raymond Tyler |
02-20-2007 |
Books
Boreal Rousenew
Punk teens flee Canada's northern nowhere in Bozak's dark and violent debut.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
02-16-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Nadia Bozak, Orphan Love
No Shame in Slaughternew
Turkish scholar Taner Akcam confronts the 1915 massacre of Armenians as his native country continues to deny it.
Montreal Mirror |
Stefan Christoff |
02-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Shameful Act, Taner Akcam
A Fascinating Explorationnew
In her sumptuous new collection of stories, Soueif details the lives of a series of Arab women as they traverse the cultural line that divides East from West.
Tags: Ahdaf Soueif, I Think of You
'Radiance' Glowsnew
Lambert's first novel gently detonates the emotional land mines dormant in diverse characters.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
02-16-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Radiance, Shaena Lambert
Medical Terrornew
This investigation takes the reader on an odyssey from Southern slave shacks to modern-day New York City, where medical investigators starved and bled young black males in a search for "the criminal gene."
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
02-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
