A Miracle of Catfish
In that it is forever incomplete, Brown's sixth and final novel should arguably be exempt from criticism
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March 9, 2007 Books Review by Marrit Ingman
Ten Days in the Hills
In this a talky, bawdy book, Jane Smiley says a lot about the vapidity of Hollywood and even more about the humanness of the 21st century American
March 9, 2007 Books Review by Joe O'Connell
Lines in the Sand: Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom Delay
Steve Bickerstaff's exhaustive history is at times too much of a bad thing, but in parts catches scholarly fire
March 2, 2007 Books Review by Michael King
Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction From the Cutting Edge
Editor Lou Anders looks for the lost art of the science-fiction anthology
Feb. 23, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw
The Palestinian Lover
Golda Meir's affair to fictionally remember
Feb. 23, 2007 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg
The Castle in the Forest
Unfortunately, Norman Mailer is more a journalist than he is a novelist, more a student of humanity than a creator of lives
Feb. 16, 2007 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet
Feb. 2, 2007 Books Review by Richard Whittaker
Smokin' Hot: A Texas High School Football Story
Feb. 2, 2007 Books Review by John Razook
Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire
Sarah Katherine Lewis visited BookWoman Wednesday and will be at BookPeople tonight, Friday, Jan. 26
Jan. 26, 2007 Books Review by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe
Essential Man-Thing: Vol. 1 and Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier
No nostalgia: discovery and rediscovery
Jan. 19, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
It's hard to state exactly what makes the photos so captivating. Editor Linda Gordon suggests that Lange's work is "saturated with conviction."
Jan. 12, 2007 Books Review by Belinda Acosta
New Stories From the South: The Year's Best
"Surely," editor Allan Gurganus writes, "we should expect our literature to do a bit more than distract us from our desperate age"
Dec. 29, 2006 Books Review by Belinda Acosta
The Infiltrator: My Undercover Exploits in Right-Wing America
San Francisco-based journo Harmon Leon makes it his business to go where others only dream, or fear, to tread
Dec. 29, 2006 Books Review by Jordan Smith
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
Impulse Records was the one jazz label that best reflected the social, political, and cultural turbulence of the 1960s as well as the spiritual awareness of the era
Dec. 29, 2006 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg
Against the Day
Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by James Renovitch
Sloth; I Love Led Zeppelin; Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution; TV's Grooviest Variety Shows of the '60s and '70s
Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Cindy Widner
Integrating the 40 Acres: The 50-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas; The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University
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Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Lee Nichols
The Austin Calendar
Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Nora Ankrum
Leavin' a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas
Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Belinda Acosta
Kasper Hauser's Sky Maul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From a Plane
Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Shannon McCormick
Blab! 17
Each year, Monte Beauchamp harvests and designs a collection of work from the world's diverse crop of illustrators, sequential artists, and the graphically obsessed. And each year, it rules.
Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Curses
With a simple drawing style reminiscent of TinTin's Hergé, Kevin Huizenga uses the comics medium to brilliant effect
Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Mother's Mouth
Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Placebo Man
Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Pizzeria Kamikaze
Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Moomin
Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Thunderstruck
Plotted and paced like a thriller, Thunderstruck successfully weaves the concurrent stories of Hawley Harvey Crippen, his wife Belle Elmore, and Guglielmo Marconi into a fascinating view of early 20th-century life
Dec. 1, 2006 Books Review by Rick Klaw
Michael Moore: A Biography
Emily Schultz seems more committed to delineating the boundaries of "Michael Moore" the persona rather than Michael Moore the person
Dec. 1, 2006 Books Review by Melanie Haupt
Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon
Yes, jeans are iconically American, but however many ways this is restated, it does nothing to quell the question of ... so what?
Nov. 24, 2006 Books Review by John Dicker
Melancholy
Jon Fosse's Melancholy is a repetitive book. The writer, Jon Fosse, repeats himself in Melancholy. It gets pretty exhausting after a while. After a while, it gets pretty exhausting.
