AltWeeklies Wire
Alex Ross Brings the 'Noise'new
The New Yorker critic surveys the many faces of 20th-century classical music.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
10-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
Podcast: Robert Reich on 'Supercapitalism'new
The former labor secretary talks about about economics, industry, and the pervasive creep of new capitalism's moral degradations.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tim Redmond |
10-17-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Controlnew
Former labor secretary Robert Reich examines the heavy price we pay for prospering as consumers in Supercapitalism.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tim Redmond |
10-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
Lomborg Tells Climate-Change Worrywarts to Chillaxnew
Cool It is more of a distraction than a contribution at a time when environmentalists should be busy promoting solutions, not debunking the carefully crafted fables of Lomborg's dollar-driven theses.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
09-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Nelson Peery Surveys His Tenure in the Communist Partynew
While he is forthright about his ethical struggles and political development, there is a staginess to much of the dialogue that transforms plot turns into vehicles for Peery's soul-searching.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Is 'The Iran Agenda' a Theocratic Democracy?new
Reese Erlich's book discusses moronic policy, complicated politics, and hopes for the future in Iran.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tim Redmond |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Tearing Down the Gates' Examines School Inequitiesnew
Peter Sacks, a former community college teacher and longtime independent critic of American education, reminds readers that school decline as the class divide increases.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tom Gallagher |
09-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Poe Ballantine's Second Book is Full of Whoasnew
The personal essays in 501 Minutes to Christ demonstrate Ballantine's ability to examine his own life harshly but reserve such judgment when looking with kind and interested eyes into the lives of others, no matter how downtrodden, crazy, or corrupt.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
09-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Great Man' Explores Advanced Agenew
Kate Christensen presents vital characters who challenge typical depictions of the elderly as staid and conservative. These women are complicated, smart, witty, and sexy — even Internet savvy!
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Glen Helfand |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction
Peter Kuper Has Self-Aware Flashbacksnew
With his unnervingly honest new graphic novel, Stop Forgetting to Remember, New York–based master illustrator Kuper turns in a devastating rendering of his city as it passes the turn of the century — and of a Cheshire cartoonist and his past adolescent meanderings.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction
Tao Lin Goes Down the Rabbit Holenew
Tao Lin takes language and makes it new again, and in doing so makes fiction that reads like poetry.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marcelo Ballve |
08-22-2007 |
Fiction
'Freedom Next Time': Tracking Struggles for Justicenew
Agree with him or not, Pilger presents a view widely accepted in much of the world, one the American public ignores at its own peril.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tom Gallagher |
08-22-2007 |
Nonfiction
Of People and Plastics in Printnew
A funny but humbling exploration of what would happen to New York City if humans were gone, wiped out by a virus or a wizard who perfected a way to sterilize our sperm.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
07-30-2007 |
Fiction
The Queers Who Came in from the Coldnew
Over the past generation, being gay seems to have lost much of the social radioactivity that exacted terrible human costs, but also generated excitement and gave writers a subject to write about.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
06-21-2007 |
Books
Kate Schatz Goes Into the Woodsnew
Continuum's 33 1/3 series enters PJ Harvey terrain with the fictional Rid of Me.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Davidson |
06-21-2007 |
Fiction
