AltWeeklies Wire
Bling Blasted in 'Ghettonation'new
Part memoir, part cultural essay and part incendiary rant, Daniels' book is as much a meditation on her own origins as it is a survey of the contemporary African-American landscape.
NOW Magazine |
David Jager |
06-29-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Food' for Thoughtnew
In an exquisite menu pulled from various sections of her life, from her ancestral Eastern Europe to local lesbian feminist housing collectives, Bociurkiw finds meaning in ingredients, aromas and cooking times.
NOW Magazine |
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk |
06-25-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Brother Dumb': Tender, Reflective, Subtlenew
Gilbert's new book defies expectations.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
06-25-2007 |
Fiction
'Skin' Tightnew
Set aside an afternoon and read this novel in one sitting -- you won't be able to stop once you've started.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
06-04-2007 |
Fiction
'New Moon' Shinesnew
Fusing the politics of foreign aid and debt with elements of magic realism, Hopkinson locates the narrator in a nation undergoing its own reconciliation with the past.
NOW Magazine |
Emma McKenna |
05-25-2007 |
Fiction
Mercenary Mightnew
Journalist Jeremy Scahill manages to lift the curtain on this secretive, highly armed group of freebooting mercenaries and in the process shows an even uglier side of a very ugly war.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
05-18-2007 |
Nonfiction
Daddy's Girlsnew
You might pick up this book expecting some of Canada's best-known female writers to deliver accounts of trauma and brutalization at the hands of their fathers -- forget about it; these dads are for the most part inspiring or benign.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
05-18-2007 |
Nonfiction
All About Evienew
Buy this book, read it and then keep it for your daughters.
NOW Magazine |
Arianne Rubenstein |
04-30-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Bottle Rocket Hearts, Zoe Whittall
9/11 Explainednew
This brilliant examination of the decades leading up to 9/11 tells a story so improbable, savage and sad, it still seems impossible that it happened.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
03-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Stealing Beautynew
Gowdy takes empathy to the max in her deeply unsettling new novel by taking us inside the head of a developing pedophile.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
03-05-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Barbara Gowdy, Helpless
Big Hairy Dealnew
American Hair Metal allows us to visually recall a movement and aesthetic that dominated the Western world, then disappeared virtually overnight -- it's amazing that something so bizarre, self-indulgent and wankerish can be so beautiful.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
03-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: American Hair Metal, Steven Blush
'Big' Funnew
This story just rocks -- it's part potboiler, part love story and all heart.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
02-23-2007 |
Fiction
'Radiance' Glowsnew
Lambert's first novel gently detonates the emotional land mines dormant in diverse characters.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
02-16-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Radiance, Shaena Lambert
Medical Terrornew
This investigation takes the reader on an odyssey from Southern slave shacks to modern-day New York City, where medical investigators starved and bled young black males in a search for "the criminal gene."
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
02-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Marx-ist Mirthnew
A fast, fun, if frustrating read, Him Her works best when Marx reins in her penchant for long, supposedly funny lists.
NOW Magazine |
Ibi Kaslik |
02-09-2007 |
Fiction
