AltWeeklies Wire
Love You Long Time Agonew
A forceful indictment of America's discomfort with its own masculinity.
Washington City Paper |
Ian Martinez |
01-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Clever and Stupidnew
Vaughan broadens an already somewhat loose definition of MacGyverism to encompass "acts of improvised genius, period."
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
12-08-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tilted Artnew
A needlessly dry work, never really generating the level of interest warranted by the lively and often lurid subject matter, Visual Shock reads like a text for a college survey course.
Washington City Paper |
Adam Mazmanian |
11-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
Plucked Outnew
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game would be a dreadful work of fiction, a Disneyfied, feel-good failure. But Michael Lewis writes nonfiction, and hilarity, for the most part, doesn’t ensue.
Washington City Paper |
Ryan Grim |
10-27-2006 |
Nonfiction
Get Your Motor Running
However rock-star he might have gone, Desmedt's skill as an artist is undeniable.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
08-25-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Indian Larry, Timothy White
I Love the 90s, Again
This potpourri could easily slouch toward sentimentality, and it occasionally does, but Charles' somewhat heavy hand produces not only a convincing, pitiable sketch of a teenager but also a disarming main character.
Washington City Paper |
Shauna Cowal |
08-25-2006 |
Fiction
Words Worth
Rock-star linguist Geoffrey Nunberg delivers not only the most tongue-trippingly truculent subtitle of the year but also a fresh and well-argued take on the Democrats' so-called "messaging problem."
Washington City Paper |
Aaron Britt |
07-28-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Geoffrey Nunberg, Talking Right
Gangs of D.C.
This book is charming, because Continetti approaches his subjects with an innocence that can't be anything but.
Washington City Paper |
Ryan Grim |
07-28-2006 |
Nonfiction
Q and Not A
Should a talented journalist be prizing uncertainty over answers?
Washington City Paper |
Dave Jamieson |
06-12-2006 |
Nonfiction
Cost Conscious
The contributors come to bury Wal-Mart, not to praise it.
Washington City Paper |
Bell Clement |
03-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Bruckheimer Conspiracy
The book's high concept falls a bit short of its mark.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
All Economics Is Local
Harford's pop-ec book is the latest sign that we're living in the decade of economics.
Washington City Paper |
Jandos Rothstein |
02-17-2006 |
Nonfiction
Workin' for The Man
Dan Kieren maps out the tragic specifics of exactly how much jobs suck.
Washington City Paper |
Dave Nuttycombe |
02-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
Women: 'Food and Turf'
This book is suitable bathroom reading for the single woman, but woe is the self-help seeker who finds gospel within.
Washington City Paper |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
02-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Dream Is Over
There aren't many winners in the American economic game.
Washington City Paper |
Ian Martinez |
02-03-2006 |
Nonfiction
