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The Word in Colornew

A poetry fan challenges John Hollander's white might.

San Antonio Current | Pablo Miguel Martínez | 04-09-2008 | Books

Tags: Poetry, compilations, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, National Poetry Month, races, The Ringing Ear, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry

The Book of Sikunew

"Okay, let's do this again" are the first words printed in the Manga Bible, an adaptation of the Holy Bible in Japanese graphic-novel form.

San Antonio Current | Kiko Martinez | 03-19-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Siku, The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation

'Changing Climate of South Texas' Shows Weather's Not a Jokenew

Bypassing the innocuously academic title, the choice of cover art — an apocalyptic, peyote-button projection of gathering sand storms and fence-crashing dunes sweeping away telephone lines, railroad tracks, and the determinedly rigid frame of a desert homestead — is a revealing visceral grab.

San Antonio Current | Greg Harman | 01-30-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Edited by Jim Norwine and Kuruvilla John, The Changing Climate of South Texas, 1900 – 2100: Problems and Prospects, Impacts and Implications, Nonfiction Reviews

'Visual Shock' Explains Art-World Politicsnew

It's really valuable to have a well-researched, intelligent, even-handed, and educated analysis of the art controversies that have shaped the larger social politics of our often provincial-minded Superpower of a nation.

San Antonio Current | Diana Lyn Roberts | 01-02-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Michael Kammen, Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture, Nonfiction Reviews

MAD Magazine Heads to the Librarynew

If only they'd had crystal balls, the juvenile delinquents who read MAD Magazine in the '50s could have blown the ever-lovin' minds of the moms who begged them to stop: "Ma," they'd taunt, "Someday this stuff is gonna be bound up in hardback and shelved in college libraries!"

San Antonio Current | John DeFore | 11-28-2007 | Books

Norman Mailer: Death of a Titannew

Norman Mailer, one of the last surviving 20th-century literary lions, is dead.

San Antonio Current | Gregg Barrios | 11-14-2007 | Books

The Rehabilitation of Joe McCarthynew

Evans' book is the latest in a revisionist school of thought that casts McCarthy, not the people he investigated, as the true victim.

San Antonio Current | Gilbert Garcia | 11-14-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy, M. Stanton Evans, Nonfiction Reviews

Vijay Vaitheeswaran on the Car of the Futurenew

In Zoom, Vaitheeswaran and Iain Carson argue that the solution is to clean cars up, not scrap them, and use technological innovation to end Detroit's steel grip on U.S. transportation policy.

San Antonio Current | Elaine Wolff | 10-31-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

It Takes a (Mexican) Villagenew

Will the new critical biography of Josefina Niggli compel Chicana and Chicano writers to embrace her as their literary madrina?

San Antonio Current | Pablo Miguel Martinez | 10-24-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez, Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography, Nonfiction Reviews

John Dean Talks Fundamentals and Fundamentalistsnew

The former counsel to President Nixon turned Watergate prosecution witness has produced a third volume in his campaign against the modern Republican party.

San Antonio Current | Elaine Wolff | 09-20-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Bush administration, Broken Government, John Dean, GOP