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New Roman Polanski Bio Goes for Glitz, Not Glorynew

Christopher Sandford's Polanski: A Biography may inspire that peculiar twinge of uber-humility that occasions tales of paraplegic mountain climbers and crack babies metamorphosed into Harvard grads. It's hard to call what the average Jarek does "living" when you stack it next to the full-color epic of Polanski.

New York Press | Felicia Feaster | 08-29-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Roman Polanski, Nonfiction Reviews, Christopher Sandford, Polanski: A Biography

American Comics and the Jews that Love Themnew

The most powerful aspect of Jews and American Comics is not Paul Buhle's writing, but rather his selection of work from some of the medium’s most notable creators, which often paints a more complete cross-section of the subject matter than his sometimes-rushed text.

New York Press | Brian Heater | 08-25-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: comics, Jews, Paul Buhle, super heroes, Nonfiction Reviews, Jews and American Comics, Mad magazine

Ben Nugent Reveals the Truth: Nerds Defy Definitionnew

American Nerd plays out as part vindication, part apology, and it relates his personal experiences to a range of social, political and historical images and ideas.

New York Press | Jerry Portwood | 05-15-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: hipsters, nerds, American Nerd: The Story of My People, Ben Nugent

Gladwell Huntingnew

A Nobel Prize winner takes on Malcolm Gladwell over the origins of The Tipping Point.

New York Press | Matt Elzweig | 04-03-2008 | Books

Tags: gladwell, malcolm

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

James Frey, Julia Allison, & Other Writers I'd Like to Fucknew

Writers are notorious for being sexy and fuckable -- here are a few WILFs on my list.

New York Press | Kelly Kreth | 11-01-2007 | Books

'Spent': The Naked Truthnew

Joe Matt's spent after all that whacking off.

New York Press | Brian Heater | 07-09-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Joe Matt, Spent

That's Farkin Right!new

Fark.com founder Drew Curtis: "Media is a tapeworm crawling up its own asshole."

New York Press | Ken Mondschein | 06-07-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Drew Curtis, It's Not News, It's Fark

Remembering All Your Troublesnew

This is a fitting tombstone for a Downtown literary scene.

New York Press | Will Fabro | 01-05-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Brandon Stosuy, Ed., Up Is Up, But So Is Down

Capturing a Vanishing Citynew

Photojournalists James and Karla Murray document the walls and buildings of NYC before they disappear.

New York Press | Billy Jam | 01-05-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Burning New York, James Murray and Karla Murray

Spartan, Elliptical Prosenew

Too many of Healy's pages are strung together vignettes that go nowhere, but the passages of his childhood memories are priceless.

New York Press | N.P. Thompson | 12-21-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: I Have Heard You Calling in the Night, Thomas Healy

Tainted With Hypocrisynew

What unites these otherwise disparate essays is Siegel's suspicion of those critics who have forgotten their obligation to "expose the shams" -- I guess Siegel forgot that he who casts the first stone is supposed to be without sin.

New York Press | Juliet Lapidos | 11-16-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: Lee Siegel, Falling Upwards

Erudite and Wittynew

It's especially nice to see that someone who's part of the landed gentry is still willing to look at our country honestly and tackle its worst demons head-on.

New York Press | Christopher Atamian | 11-02-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: Lewis Lapham, Pretensions to Empire