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Winter's Talenew
There's a section of The Architects Are Here that really got to me. Reading it gave me that feeling I love -- a thundering in my head that I don't notice until I've finished the passage and my brain calms down.
NOW Magazine |
Susan B. Cole |
01-11-2008 |
Fiction
Satan's Choicenew
This colorful, well-crafted historical tale of a bad cop and the corrupt system he served to death shows that the U.S. has been executing innocent people for a long time.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
01-04-2008 |
Fiction
'Indian Summer' is a Great Read & Backgrounder to Today's Headlinesnew
Historical giants weave in and out of the years of high drama leading up to the British forces' withdrawal from India in 1947. But Von Tunzelmann reveals, often with comical verve, that many of those giants were grossly flawed.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
01-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Top 10 Books of 2007new
Though heavy hitters including Michael Ondaatje and M.J. Vassanji dropped novels this year, fiction releases were eclipsed by an amazingly strong non-fiction list that nabbed half the slots on our top-10 list and took the number-one spot for the first time ever.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
12-28-2007 |
Books
Jocks on Trialnew
Until Proven Innocent is a seething indictment of the individuals and institutions in Durham, North Carolina that conspired to put three demonstrably innocent lacrosse players in jail for 30 years.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
Goodbye Guiltnew
In The Worst Intentions, Italian first novelist Alessandro Piperno – with excellent assistance from his translator, Ann Goldstein – gives us a vivid, and not so pretty, picture of the post-Holocaust Italian Jewish community.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
11-30-2007 |
Fiction
'Was She Pretty?' is a Memorable Graphic Novellanew
At its best, Shapton's sharp writing sums up complex human emotions that in a novel could have taken a truckload of interior monologue.
NOW Magazine |
Lauren Kirshner |
11-16-2007 |
Fiction
'Red Mutiny': Red Baitnew
Historian Neal Bascomb reclaims the Potemkin story from the twists of myth and propaganda to give us a rewarding, rip-roaring high-seas adventure set against the backdrop of the unravelling Romanov dynasty.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-09-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Dangerous Book for Boys' Strolls Down Memory Lanenew
Authors/brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden have created what can only be described as a young boy's companion guide to, well, basically everything of interest to listless and/or adventurous young men. But it's also a treat for a nostalgic adult.
NOW Magazine |
Evan Davies |
11-05-2007 |
Fiction
'Friend of the Devil' Banks on Itnew
A fan for years of Canadian crime writer Peter Robinson's sturdy Yorkshire-based mysteries, I couldn't wait for the new Inspector Banks novel to hit the shelves -- and 17 books into the series, Friend Of The Devil is as fresh and compelling as the first.
NOW Magazine |
Lesley M Allister |
10-26-2007 |
Fiction
'The Frozen Thames': Frozen Ghostsnew
If, instead of giving us a full-fledged novel with an emotional narrative arc, Helen Humphreys wants to write a series of flash fictions short-short stories with lush language representing each of the 40 occasions that the Thames River froze over, that should be fine with any of her fans.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
10-26-2007 |
Fiction
Nikita Lalwani on Being a Booker Long-Listernew
Her edgy debut looks at the devastating conflict in an immigrant family between a child math prodigy and her demanding parents.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
10-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gifted, Nikita Lalwani
'Turtle Valley' is All Fired Upnew
Gail Anderson-Dargatz's latest is part mystery, part memory story, part eco-conscious tale, but a rare take on illness in the context of a marriage is what makes it a winner.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
10-12-2007 |
Fiction
'Convictions' is a Three-Day Successnew
When I first heard about the winner of the 3-Day Novel Writing Contest, in which contestants write a novel over Labor Day weekend, I assumed the output would be rushed, disorganized and unsatisfying, but this newest 3-Day winner is an emotionally powerful book and an intense read despite its mere 111 pages.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
10-05-2007 |
Fiction
Welcome to Chick Lit Arabic-stylenew
Originally published in Lebanon in 2005, it was banned in Saudi Arabia and became a samizdat sensation, circulating in photocopied form throughout the desert kingdom.
NOW Magazine |
Maria Amuchastegui |
09-28-2007 |
Fiction
