Boy With Loaded Gun: A Memoir

"...insight, is well worth hearing about. To wit: This book contains chapters called "The Man I Killed" and "The..."

March 3, 2000 Books Review by Marion Winik

Eating in Season: Recipes From Boggy Creek Farm

"...Perhaps more than providing new culinary inspiration, Sayle's book feeds the soul. Its pages are filled with her..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Food Review by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Weir Cooking: Recipes From the Wine Country

"...TimeLife Books, 208 pp., $27.50..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Food Review by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Book Reviews

"...event in the writing life of Larry McMurtry, another book, Crazy Horse, a biography of the famous Sioux warrior,..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Books Review

Sound on Sound Review: Dillinger Escape Plan

Farewell tour exhausts the metallurgists’ rabid fanbase

"...Saturday proved an endurance test at the Keep stage,..."

Nov. 6, 2016 Music Post by Bryan Rolli

Review: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 Scales Down Tolstoy’s Masterwork

War and Peace goes pop in new Zach Theatre production

"...plays him older and more grizzled than in the book, his blend of dissolute carousing and maudlin philosophizing adding..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Black Magic For White Boys

The latest from Onur Tukel is his most rambling and pointed

"...mediocre humans yet. The Macguffin this time is a book of spells, in the possession of a third-tier stage..."

Aug. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Loving Day

Mat Johnson's novel Loving Day is all there in black and white

"...his marriage to a Welsh woman has disintegrated, his comic-book shop in Wales has failed, and he's on his..."

June 19, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Good Eye: Misadventure Book Launch

February 20, 2014. 21 photos.

"...Austin Review editor Tatiana Ryckman, mixing patterns like a pro. She..."

Feb. 20, 2014 Photo Gallery

Review: Rachel's Irish Family Food

The recipes you'll need for St Patrick's Day

"...Irish Stew, Irish Soda Bread, and Colcannon. With this book Rachel Allen sets out to tell the rest of..."

March 16, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

Library Foliage

Artists butcher books, transmogrifying them into sculptures lovely and deep

"...argument. Another craft that might be considered art: making books. Novels, collections of short stories, volumes of verse or..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Noriko Ambe: Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project

Ambe's precise blade, cutting the flesh of books, makes them less and more than they were

"...'Noriko Ambe: Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project'..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Flutter: New Works by Connie Arismendi'

There's no wink-nudge irony to these works of deep sincerity

"...leaves and vines along the margins of Godey's Lady's Book, and they fall almost to the floor. A series..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Jess: To and From the Printed Page

The Ransom Center exhibition reminds us how the written word sparked a cultural revolution in the 1950s

"...Ransom Center is to present some of the rare books, manuscripts, photography, film, artworks, and other ephemera that it..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Double Exposure

In Double Exposure, writer/performers Wayne Alan Brenner and David Jewell offer old and new material they've created, and their knack for capturing nuance in the mundane entertains

"...night into two segments: Jewell to read from his book of poems, Lizards Again, now celebrating its 20th anniversary..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

The Wine Roads of Texas: An Essential Guide to Texas Wines and Wineries

MM Pack throws "so-called journalistic objectivity out the window," and reviews Chronicle contributor Wes Marshall's The Wine Roads of Texas; also, we excerpt it.

"...to be a little gem. Make no mistake: This book isn't for wine snobs; it's a layperson's guide to..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Food Review by MM Pack

Bottled Lightning, in a Book

"...When I told a coworker I was writing a review of Randall Kennedy's new book, Nigger: The Strange Career..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Books Feature by Ric Williams

Le Bernardin Cookbook: Four-Star Simplicity

"...Le Bernardin Cookbook: Four-Star Simplicityby Eric Ripert and Maguy Le Coze Broadway..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Food Review by MM Pack

Bruce Aidells' Complete Sausage Book

"...Bruce Aidells' Complete Sausage Bookby Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Food Review by Mick Vann

This Can't Be Tofu! 75 Recipes to Cook Something You Never Thought You Would and Love Every Bite

"...Broadway Books, 144 pp., $15 (paper)..."

May 19, 2000 Food Review by Fran Moody

The Gefilte Variations: 200 Inspired Re-creations of Classics From the Jewish Kitchen With Menus, Stories, and Traditions for the Holidays and Year-Round

"...Gefilte Variations is a hefty volume, sporting no obvious cookbook filler -- there aren't even any photographs. But the..."

May 5, 2000 Food Review by Ronna Welsh

French Wines

"...and go vineyard hopping? If so, this is your book. Joseph's driving tour recommendations are as good as I..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Food Review by Wes Marshall

All About Cuban Cooking

"...more these days, the debut of this self-published bilingual cookbook by Cuban culinary arts instructor Josefina Alvarez couldn't be..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Food Review

SXSW Film Review: I Wish You All the Best

Nonbinary teen leads coming-of-age family drama

"...harsh words that follow, which is true of Deaver’s book, too. While this may bear the genre trappings of,..."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

SXSW Film Review: Join or Die

Can Rotary Clubs and bowling save America?

"...which was the main thesis of Putnam’s bestselling 2000 book Bowling Alone. Putnam uses statistical analysis to correlate the..."

March 20, 2023 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

SXSW TV Review: Lucky Hank

Bob Odenkirk lends his weight to light academic comedy

"...fare and yet still divisive material like The Green Book and The Greatest Beer Run Ever...."

March 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Restaurant Review: Este

There's a lot to like at Fermín Nuñez's new seafood restaurant

"...is comfortable and spacious; guests would do well to book the deck as we approach high patio season, perfect..."

March 10, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Sundance 2023 Review: The Amazing Maurice

Terry Pratchett's feline fraudster gets above-average adaptation

"...British authors, his extensive bibliography a fixture on every bookshelf in the island nation. Most especially, his 41 volumes..."

Jan. 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Into the shadowy mind of the man that created Hellboy

"...the old saying goes, just because someone films a book, that doesn't make the book go away ......"

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Ground Floor Theatre's Anna in the Tropics

Life imitates art in this tantalizing production of a Pulitzer-winning play

"...The book he selects is Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina, which..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

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