Torch

Cheryl Strayed's debut novel, while addressing autobiographical themes, performs the old-fashioned magic of fiction – it builds a town, fills it with people, reveals their hearts and minds, lets loose upon them the forces of death and lust – and sees what happens

May 19, 2006 Books Review by Marion Winik

I Love You More Than You Know

In short, this is a joyous book

May 19, 2006 Books Review by John Dicker

La Perdida

Because Jessica Abel's La Perdida takes place in Mexico City and involves a sometimes frictional intermingling of Mexicans and Americans, it's attracted comparison to Los Bros Hernandez's classic Love and Rockets

May 12, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Which Brings Me to You

It's clear that these two writers are trying to impress each other, rather than the reader

May 12, 2006 Books Review by Melanie Haupt

Truth Serum

Pity the poor costumed heroes of our childhood

May 12, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kings in Disguise

America's Great Depression of the 1930s isn't the backdrop for this story; it is the story

May 12, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Conversation #2

If James Kochalka is 'Magic Boy,' then Jeffrey Brown is 'Over-Analyze Lad'

May 12, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The May Queen

Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your 30s

May 5, 2006 Books Review by Melanie Haupt

A Writer's Life

Elucidating the fine art of hanging around

April 28, 2006 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Monster Island

Zombies are inherently boring

April 21, 2006 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Family and Other Accidents

April 14, 2006 Books Review by Nora Ankrum

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

April 14, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Planet of Slums

As densely footnoted a projection of apocalypse as you could ever read, Mike Davis' Planet of Slums overwhelms as much for its research as for its terrifying and heartbreaking implications

April 7, 2006 Books Review by Spencer Parsons

Sneaker Freaker: The Book: 2002-05

The book attempts to provide an overview for the uninitiated and validation for the already sold. Unfortunately, the attempts range from mildly frustrating to obnoxiously mind-numbing.

April 7, 2006 Books Review by Kate X Messer

Challenger Park

March 31, 2006 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother

Branwell is a novel describing not so much the arc of Branwell's character as his steady decline

March 24, 2006 Books Review by Jess Sauer

Carry Me Down

The real, tragic story, is not one of a boy possessing magical powers, but of a boy whose psyche is unraveled by the obtuse, negligent adults in his life

March 24, 2006 Books Review by Melanie Haupt

Here They Come

Yannick Murphy's Here They Come is, as its main character might say, a fuck of a book

March 17, 2006 Books Review by Jess Sauer

Love Burns

You might consider using this entertaining read as the basis for what not to do if you find out your spouse is having an affair

March 17, 2006 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

In his debut novel, Dominic Smith describes Daguerre spending a year using a camera obscura to paint an exact replica of the view from his terrace

March 10, 2006 Books Review by Jess Sauer

The Weather Makers: How Mankind Is Changing the Planet and What It Means for Life on Earth

Global-warming skeptics get served

March 10, 2006 Books Review by Nora Ankrum

Barney Ross

Hear his story of tragedy and triumph and tragedy again, recounted admirably and enthusiastically by Douglas Century in this new biography of that great yet forgotten early 20th-century scrapper

Feb. 10, 2006 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Night Journal

Though the structure of Elizabeth Crook's The Night Journal could be labeled with lit-crit buzzwords like 'mise en abyme' and metafiction, the best descriptor available for it is the slightly awkward 'story-within-a-story'

Feb. 3, 2006 Books Review by Jess Sauer

Kornwolf

Overload, onward ...

Jan. 27, 2006 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

'Better to get it from the horse's mouth, I decided, and not from some horse's ass'

Jan. 13, 2006 Books Review by Kate X Messer

Excitable Women, Damaged Men

It should be hard to relate to these people, but Robert Boyers has a gift for re-creating the familiar ways in which we hide from ourselves, our behavior belying our beliefs

Jan. 13, 2006 Books Review by Nora Ankrum

Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist

Readers need not be overly familiar with Porter's writing to appreciate her as a protagonist in the engaging tale of her life, yet the book is authoritative enough to recommend itself to serious students, as well

Dec. 30, 2005 Books Review by Marrit Ingman

Zanesville

The American-born, Australian-educated Kris Saknussemm has created the most original novel of the year with this wildly imaginative near-future satire

Nov. 25, 2005 Books Review by Rick Klaw

The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball

As friends and foes, they forged the most ferocious rivalry in midcentury American sports, and in the process turned a struggling, ragtag National Basketball Association into a thriving sports empire

Nov. 25, 2005 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

You & Yours and The Religion of Hands

The latest from Naomi Shihab Nye and Ray Gonzalez

Nov. 18, 2005 Books Review by Belinda Acosta

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