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Sense Of Intimacy Prevailsnew
A unique sense of intimacy prevails in Pauline Chen’s first book, Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality. In this engrossing memoir, full of surgical detail, Chen, recipient of the George Longstreth Humanness Award at Yale, meditates on her experiences as a student and physician
Chicago Newcity |
Laura Castellano |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Changing Climate of South Texas' Shows Weather's Not a Jokenew
Bypassing the innocuously academic title, the choice of cover art — an apocalyptic, peyote-button projection of gathering sand storms and fence-crashing dunes sweeping away telephone lines, railroad tracks, and the determinedly rigid frame of a desert homestead — is a revealing visceral grab.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
Jim Wallis' 'Great Awakening' is a Snoozenew
A progressive evangelical's new book will put his fans to sleep.
Willamette Week |
Matt Buckingham |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
Daniil Kharms: Aburdish and Brutenew
Today I Wrote Nothing is a generally knuckleheaded collection, so rife with undeveloped ideas and nonendings that you suspect that Kharms took great pleasure in tweaking his reader.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
01-29-2008 |
Fiction
O Twin, Where Art Thou?new
In seeking out her long-lost brother, Mona, the central character of twin time: or, how death befell me, seeks to understand the reasoning behind her mother's decision to abandon her and her father.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
01-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Good Place to Shed Your Culturenew
Believe me when I say Christensen isn't your garden-variety travel writer-memoirist. Strangers in Paradise isn't your garden-variety travel book-memoir, either.
The Texas Observer |
Josh Rosenblatt |
01-29-2008 |
Fiction
Acclaimed Poet Ben Lerner Heads to Pittsburghnew
Lerner began teaching at Pitt this semester. In the classroom, he emphasizes his approach towards poetry as a craft. "My consistent focus is on how the structure of a work determines its sense and vice versa," he says.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Claire Donato |
01-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Lerner
Rick Perlstein's Conservative Americanew
The progressive scribe made his reputation finding the good in conservatives. Then they really started screwing up the country.
Chicago Reader |
Harold Henderson |
01-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Picasso Triumphantnew
The latest volume of the painter's biography is another masterpiece.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
01-25-2008 |
Nonfiction
Before the Nazis, a Germany on the Brinknew
More so than previous works, Weitz's ably written and thoroughly researched book examines the politics of Weimar and explains how the republic segued into Nazi tyranny.
Shepherd Express |
Roger K. Miller |
01-25-2008 |
Nonfiction
'American Poets in the 21st Century': The New Poeticsnew
With apocryphal proclamations ("poetry is dead") being as common as formal innovations, the task of understanding where today's poetry fits in literary history and who is writing it is incredibly loaded.
Ninjas! Robots! Feminism!new
This week, the acclaimed comic book Y: The Last Man comes to an end.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
01-24-2008 |
Books
Tags: Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man
'No Easy Victories' Documents Struggles for African Liberationnew
The book is a veritable encyclopedia of the triumphs and tragedies of the international movements for African liberation that attracted Americans from the civil rights, feminist and antiwar movements throughout the 1960s and '70s and made its biggest impact in the ultimately successful anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and '80s.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
01-24-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Harper's Bizarrenew
Challenging Ursula Le Guin's essay that claims Americans don't read anymore.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
01-24-2008 |
Books
Joe McGinniss Jr., the Desert Sonnew
The first-time novelist grapples with Vegas' dark side -- and his father's legacy.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Athitakis |
01-24-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
