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Revenge on Icenew
Celebrated spy novelist Charles McCarry offers a sad tale from the Deutsches Reich with love.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
05-10-2007 |
Fiction
Annals of Terminationnew
George W. Bush is guilty of a lot of things -- but in her just-released book, former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega gets specific.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
05-03-2007 |
Nonfiction
Sorrow Floatsnew
Grief -- and a pervasive sense of doom -- drives this book.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
03-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Pressing the Issuenew
Gene Roberts talks about The Race Beat, a protracted inquiry into the purposes of journalism, a probing social and cultural history, and a meditation on the value of "objectivity."
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
02-22-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Yule Logs: Holiday Book Gift Guidenew
Reviews of some smart books for smart people -- fiction and nonfiction from Virgil to Cowboy Kate.
Boston Phoenix |
Phoenix Staff and Stringers |
12-08-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: 2006gift
Hunting the Wild Klostermannew
Things about the pop-culture writer that are true, things that might be true, and something that isn’t true at all.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
10-05-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Wet, Hard, and Dreamingnew
The slipcased three-volume graphic novel following the bawdy exploits of Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy is out to destroy the distinction between pornography and erotica.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
09-21-2006 |
Fiction
A Hunger for Truthnew
Peter Behrens' personalized novel sheds new light on the Irish famine and provokes some nasty comparisons to Hurricane Katrina.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-21-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams
Green Monster to Green Zonenew
Two red Sox fans gave up selling "Yankees Suck" T-shirts and got jobs in war-torn Iraq.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
'Cribs,' Despot Editionnew
If you’re a heartless dictator, home is where the hideous ersatz pagodas, caged leopards, room-size shoe closets, and bizarre bathroom appliances are.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
06-09-2006 |
Nonfiction
J.T. and Menew
Rocker Kay Hanley explains how she fell for the second-best literary hoax of the year -- the self-styled transgendered drug addict J.T. Leroy.
Boston Phoenix |
Kay Hanley |
02-24-2006 |
Books
Lost and Foundnew
The serendipity of Sara Bader's discovery is a lot like the essence of classified advertising itself.
Boston Phoenix |
Amy Finch |
02-24-2006 |
Nonfiction
From the Ashesnew
With one of the better novels to come out of 9/11, Jay McInerney grows up.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
02-24-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jay McInerney, The Good Life
Daydream Believernew
Boston rocker Jen Trynin documents her would-have-been stardom with self-mocking wit.
Boston Phoenix |
Amy Finch |
02-09-2006 |
Nonfiction
Faith Healingnew
The pages of historian Taylor Branch's third volume in his parallel biography of Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil-rights movement turn heavily.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
02-03-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: At Canaan's Edge, Taylor Branch
