AltWeeklies Wire
Warm Mountainnew
Frazier's long-awaited second book is in many respects the natural successor to his wildly successful debut Cold Mountain, but it is simultaneously a more and less satisfying accomplishment.
L.A. Weekly |
Claire Messud |
10-12-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons
Spy vs. Spynew
William Boyd goes inside Britain's attempt to crack American isolationism in Restless.
L.A. Weekly |
Brendan Bernhard |
09-28-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Restless, William Boyd
Towering Infernonew
The Fellowship is an intriguing slog because it is about a genuinely fascinating cult figure: Frank Lloyd Wright.
L.A. Weekly |
Greg Goldin |
09-14-2006 |
Nonfiction
Orange Crushnew
Though full of learning and skilled if tepid reporting, Buruma's book on the death of Theo Van Gogh often feels muddled, ungenerous and confusing.
L.A. Weekly |
Brendan Bernhard |
08-31-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam
A Full Lifenew
Messud discusses marriage to a critic, diapers and The Emperor's Children.
L.A. Weekly |
Michelle Huneven |
08-24-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Pretty Mysteriousnew
Everything Pessl has going for her is also going against her.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
08-17-2006 |
Fiction
Apocalypse in Progressnew
In Pinchbeck's world, that's not such a bad thing.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
07-27-2006 |
Nonfiction
Not-So-Innocent Abroadnew
Rediscover Graham Greene's lawless roads and mapless journeys.
L.A. Weekly |
Susan Zakin |
07-20-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
Sex in the Age of Ironynew
Whip-smart women dominate in a call girl's memoir, Belle de Jour, and Shelley Jackson's novel, Half Life.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
07-13-2006 |
Books
Village Musenew
Ali discusses her new novel.
L.A. Weekly |
Margy Rochlin |
06-22-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alentejo Blue, Monica Ali
Men Are Fleetingnew
Chicks are forever.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-08-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Deanna Kizis, Finishing Touches
The Spider and the Waspnew
We speak with John Updike about his Terrorist.
L.A. Weekly |
Mehammed Mack |
06-01-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Updike, terrorist
The Beaver Trapnew
Allan MacDonell survives 20 years at Hustler.
L.A. Weekly |
Dave Shulman |
06-01-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Crazed Catholicsnew
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, but it makes sense of an absurd and chaotic world -- people like that, and they respond.
L.A. Weekly |
Greg Burk |
05-18-2006 |
Books
Mean Snacks and Monkey Shitnew
We talk bananas with George Saunders.
L.A. Weekly |
Alec Hanley Bemis |
05-11-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
