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Roger Gathman
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Books, Jan. 19, 2007
Nellie Blog
Why modern-day muckraker Ana Marie Cox couldn't care less about her critics – or even, at times, her audience
Screens, March 4, 2005
State of Affairs
The current political season is reflected equally in an angry Iraq analysis and a soapy novel with a Sirkian sweep
Books, Oct. 22, 2004
Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
Books, Oct. 8, 2004
The Egyptologist
This novel is not so densely felt or immediate as Arthur Phillips' first, the excellent Prague, but the reader is urged to persevere
Books, Sept. 10, 2004
Land of Confusion
Michael Simon's first detective novel finds a transplanted New Yorker struggling to solve a murder in a 'completely different' Austin
Books, July 30, 2004
The Dog Fighter
Beware: As recommended as this debut novel comes, if it were a movie, they could not honestly put the disclaimer in the credits that 'no animals were hurt'
Books, July 23, 2004
Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush
Books, July 16, 2004
Transmission
Beyond Texas
Books, May 28, 2004
The Wisdom of Crowds
Beyond Texas
Books, May 28, 2004
The Maze
In this novel, Karnezis' ingenious, although ambiguous, framing device consists of repressing any sight or sound of the Turkish enemy as he describes the abbreviated anabasis of one Greek brigade in the Anatolian hinterlands.
Books, March 26, 2004
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon want to do two things in their book. Roger Gathman finds out if they pull it off.
Books, March 19, 2004
Give Them What They Want
An interview with Virginia Postrel
Screens, March 5, 2004
Blogging to Utopia
The new alternative press
Screens, March 5, 2004
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Aux armes, citoyens!
Books, Jan. 16, 2004
Love
Toni Morrison, like Aeschylus and Eugene O'Neill, has a fondness for tragic houses.
Books, Nov. 28, 2003
Goya
Robert Hughes' description of Goya is tinged, unconsciously, with the image he himself presents to the public: the art critic as macho, for whom the acuteness of response to the occasions of sensibility becomes one of the fine tests of masculinity.
Books, Nov. 21, 2003
The Rebirth of Venus
Greg Curtis' 'Disarmed' gets the elusive skinny on the sculpture whose stomach is 'Immense Like the Sea'
Books, Oct. 24, 2003
Shipwreck
Louis Begley recently wrote a glowing preface to a reissue of The Other House, James' least known novel. Begley is one of the few fans of the book, and writes that "James makes manifest in this very remarkable novel the overpowering force and ignominy of the sexual drive." Obviously Begley is after something like that here. But if this was the inspiration, it was not a fortunate one.
Books, Oct. 24, 2003
The Culture Jammer: Mark Dery
An interview with Cinematexas "Games Without Borders" keynote speaker, Mark Dery
Screens, Sept. 19, 2003
The Correspondence
Austin writer Jim Lewis on how things came together in his new novel, and on his current assignment in the Congo
Books, Aug. 1, 2003
Book Review
"Casares has been listening," Roger Gathman writes of the Brownsville native's Brownsville: Stories. "His dialogues seem to hang just outside the realm of literature, which is where real writing happens." The recent Dobie-Paisano fellow will kick off his book tour at BookPeople on Thursday, March 6, at 7pm.
Books, Feb. 28, 2003
Book Review
Books, Jan. 10, 2003
On the Border's Edge
Drug war reporter Charles Bowden is telling El Paso-Juarez's secrets, one murder at a time
Books, Nov. 29, 2002
In Person
The 2002 Texas Book Festival
Books, Nov. 22, 2002
In Person
The 2002 Texas Book Festival
Books, Nov. 22, 2002
Beyond Himself
Jonathan Safran Foer's unconscious grasp of the Jewish literary tradition
Books, Nov. 15, 2002
Hart Crane: A Life
Books, Aug. 9, 2002
An Artificial Wilderness
UT professor Philip Bobbitt on his "Shield of Achilles' and the rules of war diplomacy since 1500
Books, June 21, 2002
Christopher Middleton: Translating a German Genius
Translator and former UT professor Christopher Middleton has shed some literary light on 20th-century German writer Robert Walser, a favorite of few and forgotten by most.
