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Politics as Cryptographynew
Thom Hartmann cracks the code of what wins over Americans.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
J.B. Powell |
12-28-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Top 10 Books of 2007new
Though heavy hitters including Michael Ondaatje and M.J. Vassanji dropped novels this year, fiction releases were eclipsed by an amazingly strong non-fiction list that nabbed half the slots on our top-10 list and took the number-one spot for the first time ever.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
12-28-2007 |
Books
Comic Proportionsnew
Reviews of Batman and the Outsiders No. 3 and New X-Men No. 45.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Carlton Hargro |
12-28-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
'Refresh, Refresh' Looks at the Impact of Warnew
Fiction in the key of fear and frustration.
Shepherd Express |
Erin Kogler |
12-28-2007 |
Fiction
The Challenge of Holiday Feastingnew
After reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, you may never look at a holiday ham -- or any dinner for that matter -- the same again.
Jackson Free Press |
Brandi Herrera Pfrehm |
12-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
From Potty Training to Peniinew
This tongue-in-cheek guide to the rocky road of parenthood tells readers right off that the task of parenting is generally neither fun nor profitable. And it often looks easier if it is someone else's children.
Jackson Free Press |
Kelly Bryan Smith |
12-27-2007 |
Original Work
The Food Book to Read This Yearnew
Michael Pollan sets out to determine why the so-called Western diet is the unhealthiest in the world; how, despite a full-fledged societal obsession with food and nutrition, Americans have gotten to the perverse point where we are both overweight and undernourished.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
12-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Feasting Season' Offers a Wine Romancenew
The food novel is a sensuous, luscious read, one foodies and fiction aficionados will be glad they got their hands on before the inevitable movie is made (how about Diane Lane and Vincent Cassel?).
Book Reviewing is Dead! Long Live the Book Review!new
Lack of venues and a paucity of critical writing are digging the grave of the book review.
VUE Weekly |
Jay Smith |
12-27-2007 |
Books
The Sturdy Dozennew
The 12 best books of 2007, including The Dangerous Book for Boys, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, and more.
Charleston City Paper |
M.L. Van Valkenburgh |
12-26-2007 |
Books
Nicola Barker Sets a Full Table in 'Darkmans'new
What Barker accomplishes is the sort of comprehensive and wide-ranging novel that towers over the single-note memoirs, genre pieces and pink-cover chick-lit books that so outnumber it.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Justin Bauer |
12-26-2007 |
Fiction
Go Without Godnew
A French philosopher finds you don't have to believe to be virtuous.
New Haven Advocate |
Evan Brown |
12-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Examining Bush and the Neoconsnew
At times Unger focuses so closely on neocon tactics that he misses other forces driving Bush-Cheney policies. Even so, the book offers a vivid account of the use of disinformation to promote extremism.
Chicago Reader |
Chris Pepus |
12-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Nersesian Builds on the Post-Apocalyptic Genrenew
He constructs an alternate timeline, with Watergate quashed and the counterculture exiled to a replica New York built in the Nevada desert. His plot is scrambled out of The Odyssey, but it's really only an easel for the cabinet of curiosities his replica city contains.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Justin Bauer |
12-26-2007 |
Fiction
'Black Mass': A Call to Do Nothing?new
John Gray of the London School of Economics identifies many of the world's problems as stemming from those seeking the mirage of Utopia -- the idea that the world can be utterly transformed by human agency according to one blueprint or another.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
12-21-2007 |
Original Work
