Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters
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March 21, 2008 Books Review by Richard Whittaker
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of 'Energy Independence'
Robert Bryce's dissection of the energy market isn't likely to win him friends.
March 7, 2008 Books Review by Richard Whittaker
The Secret History of the English Language
If the late Douglas Adams had made his mark as a writer of history textbooks, the resulting volumes might read like The Secret History of the English Language
March 7, 2008 Books Review by Ken Lieck
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
The Thing About Life is an acknowledgement of the inevitability of bodily decline dressed up in elaborate literary garments
Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories
Millhauser is a bit of an illusionist himself, trading in elaborate setups, allegorical sleight of hand, and fairy tales with something up their sleeve
Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Michael Agresta
The Flowers: A Novel
Dagoberto Gilb's latest novel takes readers on a startling and inevitable journey
Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Belinda Acosta
Night Train to Lisbon
This unlikely, labyrinthine but ultimately intriguing tale by Swiss writer Pascal Mercier is already a bestseller in Europe
Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg
His Illegal Self
Carey, an Australian native, is at his best when describing the minutiae of the wild, and less when grappling with his implausible premise
Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Yvonne Georgina Puig
Beautiful Children: A Novel
In this remarkable debut novel, the decline of the great American experiment is written in the neon lights and decaying storefronts of Las Vegas
Feb. 1, 2008 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt
The Somnambulist
Barnes crafts one of the finest first novels of the young century
Feb. 1, 2008 Books Review by Rick Klaw
Brooklyn Was Mine
Brooklyn is a place that demands to be understood literarily, whether the literature of choice is Walt Whitman's or Jay-Z's
Jan. 25, 2008 Books Review by Cindy Widner
The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life
Meet the Pulpwood Queens and Kathy L. Patrick, Texas' answer to Oprah and perhaps just as important a name in the word biz
Jan. 25, 2008 Books Review by Joe O'Connell
Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual
Theroux has a knack for creative observations and clarity, as well as an undeniably vast knowledge of literature and sex
Jan. 18, 2008 Books Review by Sofia Resnick
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Court intrigue is hot stuff this season
Jan. 18, 2008 Books Review by Margaret Moser
The Book of Other People
Profits from the sales of this priceless anthology of short stories will benefit 826NYC
Dec. 28, 2007 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
This massive biography of Allen Ginsberg, lovingly assembled by Ginsberg's archivist, is a laborious read, at once fascinating and discomfiting
Dec. 21, 2007 Books Review by Melanie Haupt
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage From Paris to Marseilles
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is the record of an epic adventure on the Autoroute de Sud, cobbled together from fragments composed on the road
Dec. 21, 2007 Books Review by Michael Agresta
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; Pornography: A Groundwork Guide
Part manifesto, part memoir, Robert Jensen's book calls on men to reject pornography, join the feminist movement, and rise above preconceived notions of sexuality
Dec. 7, 2007 Books Review by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe
Shooting War
Shooting War, writer Anthony Lappé and illustrator Dan Goldman's glossy, all-color graphic novel, is a political satire focused on the business of corrupt journalism, wars on terror, and networks shaking hands with governments
Nov. 23, 2007 Books Review by Sofia Resnick
The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir
Disco doesn't have much to do with anything in Clane Hayward's memoir of her late Seventies, peripatetic preteens, which were spent shuttling between a hippie mom, redneck dad, and anybody else with an open space – but not necessarily an open heart – in which Hayward could crash
Nov. 23, 2007 Books Review by Kimberley Jones
Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique
Author Kelly DiNardo recounts the fascinating life of 'the queen of striptease'
Nov. 16, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw
Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales From the Other Iraq
If you think you know everything about how America is viewed by the people whom our troops are meant to be protecting, there is much in this volume that will surprise you
Nov. 16, 2007 Books Review by Ken Lieck
New Stories From the South: 2007 – The Year's Best
Isolation, family dysfunction, dogs, brutal weather, and regret
Oct. 26, 2007 Books Review by Joe O'Connell
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
Homeless drug- and gambling addicts, design flaws, crawfish, black widows, graffiti of inspiration and despair
Oct. 26, 2007 Books Review by Shawn Badgley
Incredible Change-Bots
In his latest (and first all-color) graphic novel, indie-comix star Jeffrey Brown has stepped slightly out of form
Oct. 19, 2007 Books Review by Sofia Resnick
Best American Fantasy
Best American Fantasy replicates the success of the late The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy series by combing nontraditional genre haunts and delving into mainstream, literary and online magazines
Oct. 19, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw
Brujerías: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond
Thirty years, 64 narrators, and 165 stories
Sept. 28, 2007 Books Review by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe
Tokyo Year Zero
British-born David Peace comes on like James Ellroy with a pint of warm Yorkshire ale in his hand
Sept. 28, 2007 Books Review by Richard Whittaker
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Mordecai Richler once remarked that 'the novelist's primary moral responsibility is to be the loser's advocate.' It's difficult to imagine how anyone who takes that dictum to heart could outdo Junot Díaz here.
Sept. 21, 2007 Books Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Texas Monthly on ... Texas True Crime
We Texans tend to believe that everything about us is special. When it comes to our criminals, we don't have to get too subjective to substantiate that belief.
