AltWeeklies Wire
Al Gore: 21st Century Founding Fathernew
Americans are no longer used to frank, substantive political discourse - the thesis of Gore's Assault on Reason.
New Haven Advocate |
Evan Brown |
07-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
Relative Stranger: The Other Einstein Biographynew
The man behind the icon in Neffe's new biography.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
07-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
Townes Van Zandt's Bayou Selfnew
Kruth assembled the debut biography on the legendary songwriter with a jazz player's loose sense of structure and a songwriter's ear for the music in human speech -- it's a good, riveting read.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Cynthia Shearer |
07-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Trap' is Shrewd and Compassionatenew
It's also unique, because it comes not from a sorrowing elder but rather from a young person with a very conservative agenda -- conservative in the sense that he wants to retrieve the gains of the New Deal.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
07-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Ocean's Unlikely Heronew
H. Bruce Franklin's latest book is a timely warning about ecological disaster at the hands of corporate greed.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jennifer C. O'Donnell |
07-23-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Gym' Dandynew
Except for one, each of the 33 working novelists, short story writers and poets assembled by Clark delivers practical tips in plain English for the practicing writer.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Dowler |
07-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
State of the Artnew
Inside punk rock's morph from close-knit community to corporate-funded commodity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Lee Valentine Smith |
07-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Inside the Life of Charlotte Greenwoodnew
This sympathetic biographer makes a very convincing case that Greenwood was more than just a comedy spinster type.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
07-18-2007 |
Nonfiction
Car Bomb Universitynew
A history of the big blowup.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Carriere |
07-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The River Cottage Meat Book' vs. 'The Bloodless Revolution'new
These two books beg the question: Could conscientious meat-eating be better for animals than vegetarianism?
Chicago Reader |
Nicholas Day |
07-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Nonfiction Reviews
Ralph Ellison's Visible Geniusnew
Rampersad overwrites the myth of Ellison as a one-hit wonder to reveal a diligent, irascible and self-directed man who clawed his way to greatness despite adversaries who tried to cut him down.
NOW Magazine |
Lauren Kirschner |
07-13-2007 |
Nonfiction
Worst President Ever: Here's Why
Greenwald's thesis, simply put, is that Bush's simplistic good vs. evil dualism is fundamentally at odds with America's political traditions.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Funny Book Man!new
Mark Schiff gathers hundreds of America's top comics who share tales from the roads.
Metro Spirit |
Erika Bolin |
07-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
Telling It Straightnew
Mills devotes chapters to the "Three Kings of Tombigbee Country" (Elvis, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus), former legislators Butch Lambert and Jerry Wilburn, former state Supreme Court Justice Armis Hawkins and Mill's life as a young legislator staying at the old Sun-N-Sand Motel.
Jackson Free Press |
Jere Nash |
07-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Literary Scandal of 2007new
One of Germany's best-known anti-Nazi novelists confesses to a stint in the SS, noting that onions are endlessly nested, bringing tears to those around them.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
07-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
