Book Reviews

Reviews of Recent Fiction and Nonfiction

"...Riverhead Books, 224 pp., $22.95..."

May 19, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Culinaria: The United States: A Culinary Discovery

"...of edible geography cleverly disguised as a hulking coffeetable book. In the course of its 500-plus pages, the volume..."

March 24, 2000 Food Review by Pableaux Johnson

The Rose Pistola Cookbook: 140 Italian Recipes From San Francisco's Favorite North Beach Restaurant

"...The Rose Pistola Cookbook: 140 Italian Recipes From San Francisco's Favorite North Beach..."

March 24, 2000 Food Review by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Cooking Fearlessly: Recipes and Other Adventures From Hudson's on the Bend

"...both style and content, Cooking Fearlessly -- the new cookbook from chefs Jeff Blank and Jay Moore -- is..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Food Review by Pableaux Johnson

Saveur Cooks Authentic French: Rediscovering the Recipes, Traditions, and Flavors of the World's Greatest Cuisine

"...Chronicle Books, 320 pp., $40..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Food Review by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

American Home Cooking: Over 300 Spirited Recipes Celebrating Our Rich Tradition of Home Cooking

"...Broadway Books, 544 pp., $30..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

SXSW Film Review: The Idea of You

Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in a rom-com for adults

"...You, which he co-wrote with Jennifer Westfeldt from the book by Robinne Lee, keeps the humor light and the..."

March 18, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Omni Loop

Woman stuck in time reckons with life choices

"...carries a quiet resentment. Her career as a science textbook writer is dull and unfulfilling, worsened by the fact..."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

SXSW Film Review: Whatever It Takes

A cyberstalking whodunit with a corporate twist

"...scientific supply company. A funeral wreath. Most ominously, a book on grieving the loss of a spouse. The Steiners..."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Rod Machen

SXSW Film Review: Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience

Longtime host of Eklektikos, first-time documentary

"...John’s daily presence at Cherrywood Coffeehouse – complete with book and personal banker’s lamp – was a comfort to..."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW Film Review: Road House

Eighties classic gets a rock ’em, sock ’em remake

"...closer to that mournful Western – there’s even a book-loving teen, Charlie (Hannah Lanier), on hand to tell Dalton..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Stormy

Doc explores life in the eye of Hurricane Trump

"...to Twitter to call her every name in the book, but there are also death threats. She’s been on..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Katherine McNevins

SXSW TV Review: 3 Body Problem

Acclaimed sci-fi story opens the fest’s TV portion

"...21, will be released to the proletariat. While the book by Liu Cixin is set mainly in China, this..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Rod Machen

Visual Arts Review: “Two Births and the Afterlife”

Aimée M. Everett’s current exhibition at Carver Museum offers a refreshing switch on an all-too-familiar narrative of motherhood

"...fact, the entire exhibition is evocative of a children’s book with its surprising intensity despite a more quaint and..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by Meher Qazilbash

Review: City Theatre Tackles a Nineties Relic

Good performances can’t save The Twilight of the Golds from its datedness

"...look at the motivations behind the current spate of book bannings and anti-LGBTQ legislation to see how prejudice still..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Beetlejuice

There's a lot of life in this show about death

"...Scott Brown and Anthony King's book is an excellent redevelopment of the original film script..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: “Eye Moon Cocoon”

VLM's installation emphasizes environmental power of small gestures

"...in its presentation of complex topics. She cites the book When Species Meet by Donna Haraway as a major..."

Nov. 27, 2023 Arts Post by Meher Qazilbash

Review: “The Other Thing Is”

Malcolm Bucknall's sentimental, humorous, chimeric portraits

"...one would feel while flipping through a child’s picture book...."

Nov. 24, 2023 Arts Post by Meher Qazilbash

Review: Zach Academy’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Young performer program shows Austin’s acting future is bright

"...This version of the musical (book by Rachel Sheinkin, music by William Finn) wastes no..."

Nov. 7, 2023 Arts Post by Jasmine Lane

AFF Review: Grapefruit

Rosanna Arquette is tenderly flawed in this addiction dramedy

"...In one scene, she rips pages from a library book and pops them into her mouth, wondering aloud about..."

Nov. 1, 2023 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Restaurant Review: Yamas Greek Kitchen + Bar

Inconsistent food and service mar influencers’ darling

"...first visit to Yamas on a Friday night, having booked an 8:45 reservation three weeks in advance (this is..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Fantastic Fest Review: River

Japanese sci fi dramedy treads lightly and charmingly

"...who are running into a deadline for his next book. The two old friends who think that one lunch..."

Oct. 3, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Saw X

Least-secret secret screening still has some twists

"...clunky semi-reboot Jigsaw, and the misguided Spiral: From the Book of Saw, with its heavy-handed ACAB text, Saw X..."

Sept. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tribeca Film Review: Stan Lee

A charmingly opinionated look at the father of modern comics

"...silently smiling at a televised debate between self-described comic book enthusiast Warren Storab and DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz...."

June 16, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Shaver Catalog Begins Afterlife With New West Reissues

Victory, Electric Shaver, The Earth Rolls On arrive on colored vinyl

"...May 1973, Billy Joe Shaver inscribes into outlaw country's Book of Genesis his Kris Kristofferson-produced debut, Old Five &..."

June 16, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Review: City Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest

The air’s a tad thin in this production of Oscar Wilde’s work

"...and (due to the last-minute substitution) unfortunately uncostumed and on-book Miss Prism. To his credit, Friedman seemed totally undaunted..."

June 8, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Review: Broadway in Austin’s To Kill a Mockingbird

They had me at Sorkin

"...perspective. And he casts a weary eye over the book’s idealistic portrayal of Atticus (Richard Thomas, who is astounding..."

May 10, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

SXSW Film Review: Monolith

Australian audio-horror builds tone through sound

"...Look under "J" in the grand book of horror tropes and you'll find a long entry..."

March 24, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Late Night With the Devil

Supernatural satire shows the hellish price of success

"...out of a satanic cult written about in a book by clairvoyant June (Laura Gordon) who also appears on..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Trace Sauveur

SXSW Film Review: Satan Wants You

The Satanic panic as a guidebook to the dangers of crazy conspiracies

"...Pazder co-published Michelle Remembers with patient Michelle Smith. This book purported to reveal Smith’s repressed memories of Satanic ritual..."

March 12, 2023 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

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