AltWeeklies Wire
Cris du cœurnew
Uproot a city of artists and you will hear their cries, and New Orleans was nothing if not a gathering place for creatives. Two new books sing the city's praises and lament its loss.
Boston Phoenix |
Clea Simon |
01-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Dirty Politicsnew
For two years as Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox was best known for gleeful daily references to "ass-fucking" and political tawdriness in the blogosphere, but now she’s moving on to different endeavors.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
01-12-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dog Days, Ana Marie Cox
I [Heart] New Yorknew
Stack your Hegel, Kant, Marx and any and all NYC gallery guides on the nightstand -- everything's about to get real heavy with this knotty and ambitious work.
Boston Phoenix |
Colin Fleming |
01-06-2006 |
Nonfiction
War and Peacenew
Since September 11, publishers have been rushing to publish non-fiction books about anything relating to the upheavals in the Middle East. They've been much slower about supplying us with imaginative tales from these regions, but the trickle has begun.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
01-03-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors
It's All Truenew
Phoenix reviewers list their favorite non-fiction books of 2005.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
12-23-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: yearinreview2005
Speeding Through Lifenew
The Phoenix lists the best fiction and poetry of 2005.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
12-23-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: yearinreview2005
Nancy Had Two Mommiesnew
Nancy Drew has lasted 75 years as a childhood favorite. Melanie Rehak chronicles a character who influenced at least two generations of women in an exhaustive literary biography designed to give the perky teen her due.
Boston Phoenix |
Clea Simon |
12-20-2005 |
Nonfiction
Gangsta to Gangsternew
Two books about hip-hop expose and explain the scenes in New Orleans and New York.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
12-20-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Better To Givenew
These are not typical gift books. These are books for the rest of us -- books we would actually buy for ourselves, and our loved ones, be they geek or hipster, intellectual or meathead.
Boston Phoenix |
Boston Phoenix staff |
12-13-2005 |
Fiction
Car Talknew
Like many another Jewish writer before him, Rafi Zabor sees family as an epic subject. But a more apt comparison than Saul Bellow is jazz. Zabor writes and riffs -- each tonal shift leading to another alliterative romp.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
12-13-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir, Rafi Zabor
Queer Scarenew
In 1920, Harvard president, A. Lawrence Lowell, put into action an inquisitorial secret court to ferret out, expel, castigate, and humiliate homosexual students.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
12-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
Charles Burns’s Grand Experimentnew
Black Hole is an illustrated novel focused on sex, the emotional ramifications of sex, our sex dreams, and every Freudian and Jungian sex trope under the sun.
Boston Phoenix |
Matthew Shaer |
11-29-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Black Hole, Charles Burns
Eclectic Masternew
A profoundly gratifying new two-volume Library of America collection of James Agee's works makes it clear that his broad range of literary output is unified by the beauty of his prose.
Boston Phoenix |
Steve Vineberg |
11-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Bird! A Plane! A Conservative!new
In the first-ever comic book explicitly by and for conservatives, patriotic superhero Captain America is irrelevant because, says co-creator Mike Mackey, "traditional American values are not traditional anymore."
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
11-11-2005 |
Fiction
Dowsednew
Rick Moody has made an ambitious leap into a sprawling, overstuffed satiric novel centered on the efforts of various incompetents to create a television mini-series called The Diviners.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
11-10-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Rick Moody, The Diviners
