Book Reviews Archive
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Book Review: The Narcotic Farm
2008-11-13
Nancy Campbell documents the rise and fall of "Narco," America's first prison for drug addicts.
Book review: Al' America
2008-11-06
Jonathan Curiel travels through America's Arab and Islamic roots.
Book Review: Remix
2008-10-23
Should file sharing be safe, legal—and taxed? The Al Gore of the copyright muddle, Lawrence Lessig offers a fresh vision for making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy.
Book Review: Whatever It Takes
2008-09-05
Paul Tough on Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America.
Book Review: Obscene in the Extreme
2008-09-04
Rick Wartzman on the burning and banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
Book Review: Burmese Daze
2008-09-04
French-Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle's Asian travelogue navigates culture shock with a keen eye.
Who Is the Real Laura Bush?
2008-09-03
In American Wife, novelist Curtis Sittenfeld fleshes out the interior life of our enigmatic first lady.
Book Review: Babylon Rolling
2008-08-29
Amanda Boyden reveals a slice of pre-Katrina New Orleans triumph and tension by illustrating a year in the lives of an Uptown street's inhabitants.
Book Review: War Nerd
2008-08-04
Does it matter if controversial military columnist Gary Brecher is really an overweight data-entry clerk from Fresno?
First Person: Excerpts from The Beat Within
2008-07-30
Personal essays from prostitutes, gang members, and other incarcerated teenagers.
Book Review: This Land Is Their Land
2008-07-01
Barbara Ehrenreich's no garden-variety pessimist on health care, Wal-Mart, and the superrich. She's a full-fledged member of the glass-has-only-one-drop-left cohort.
Book Review: A Nuclear Family Vacation
2008-07-01
Authors Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger provide a guided tour to atomic weaponry tourism, from nuclear labs to blast-proof bunkers (including Dick Cheney's rumored "undisclosed location").
Books: Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
2008-05-01
A review of Amy Richards' book on child care, fertility, and the mommy wars
Books: Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias
2008-05-01
A review of Andrew Blechman's look at seniors, sex, and STDs
Books: Scrapbook of the Stateless
2008-05-01
Acclaimed photojournalist Susan Meiselas revisited Kurdistan. Here's what she found.
Books: Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids
2008-05-01
A review of Julie Salamon's book on our fragmented health care
Book Review: The Man Who Pushed America to War
2008-03-19
Who is Ahmad Chalabi, really? A scheming manipulator, a corrupt businessman, a political visionary, or all of the above?
Book Review: Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
2008-03-10
Amy Irvine struggles to find her place among the cowboys and Mormons of Utah's red-rock country.
Book Review: The Ten-Cent Plague
2008-03-10
Back before Spider-Man and the X-Men, comic books were the villains.
Book review: Dog Man
2008-02-28
A tale of Japan's lightning-speed evolution.
Go Sell It on the Mountain
2008-02-01
On Mt. Everest, climbers have a lot more to worry about than the weather.
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill)
2008-01-17
By David Cay Johnston. Portfolio. $24.95.
Gang Leader for a Day and Snitch
2008-01-16
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets,
by Sudhir Venkatesh. The Penguin Press. $25.95.
Snitch: Informers, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice
by Ethan Brown. Public Affairs. $25.95.
Shooting War: Journalism for Cool Dudes
2007-12-21
A new graphic novel tells the story of a young citizen journalist who becomes a terrorist leader's pawn—and Dan Rather's best bud—while covering war-torn Iraq in 2011.
The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard's One Drop
2007-11-09
Suddenly, white people are fascinated by race. Good for them. Good for all of us?
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
2007-11-01
Christopher Lane. Yale University Press. $27.50.
Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
2007-11-
By Anne Elizabeth Moore. The New Press. $15.95.
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
2007-11-
By Roberto Saviano. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $25.
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
2007-10-16
A new book maps the partition of the Indian subcontinent and evocatively captures what it meant for the millions swept up in the tide of violence, migration, and the ensuing loss and confusion.
Brother I'm Dying: Life in Haiti, One Breath at a Time
2007-09-24
Edwidge Danticat's memoir weaves a tale of brotherhood and family amid Haiti's, and the United States', chaotic circumstances.
Year Zero: A True Portrait of Post-Katrina Life
2007-09-17
An alternative press website in New Orleans spins yarns and true tales on the fate of their fair city.
College for Christ's Sake
2007-09-17
A new book chronicles how one school prepares young Christians to compete in a secular world.
The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics
2007-09-
By Matt Bai. The Penguin Press. $25.95.
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
2007-09-
By John Bowe. Random House. $25.95.
Beyond the Green Zone
2007-09-
By Dahr Jamail. Haymarket Books. $20.
Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
2007-08-29
Writer, publisher, and man-about-town Joshua Clark defied the mandatory evacuation that preceded the 2005 storm and hunkered down in his French Quarter apartment with his girlfriend and a radio.
Legacy of Ashes: The CIA's History of Secrecy and Screwups
2007-07-03
An eye-opening new history of the CIA uncovers an intelligence agency out of control.
Macedonia
2007-07-
By Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson. Illustrated by Ed Piskor. Villard. $17.95.
Dispatches From America's Class War
2007-07-
By Joe Bageant. Crown.
Deer Hunting With Jesus takes Thomas Frank's dazzlingly smart 2004 book, What's the Matter With Kansas?, to the next level.
The World Without Us
2007-06-30
What if all human beings suddenly disappeared? Poof—no reason required. What would happen to our earth? A book by Alan Weisman. Thomas Dunne. $24.95.
Mission Al Jazeera: From Jarhead to Journalist
2007-06-28
The Marine flack who starred in Control Room has been called a hero and a traitor for joining an Arabic news network. But is talking to moderate Arabs that radical?
A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia
2007-06-25
By Anna Politkovskaya. Random House. 342 pages. $25.95.
Politkovskaya is an erudite guide through the mess of modern Russia. Amid the diary's pervasive gloom there are a few small flickers of hope.
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
2007-05-07
By Natalie Angier. Houghton Mifflin. $27.
Once, while writing a story on whale genetics, Natalie Angier was asked by an editor to confirm that a whale is a mammal, and that a mammal is, in fact, an animal.
Retained by the People: The Neglegted Ninth Amendment
2007-05-07
By Daniel A. Farber. Basic Books. $26.95.
What if the Constitution explicitly granted liberals' wish list of rights—basic education, reproductive freedom, sexual privacy, and a dignified death?
If It Isn't a Global War on Terror, What Is It? And How Do We Improve It?
2007-05-03
Mistakes were made in the war on terror, none of them new.
Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
2007-05-01
By Chris Salewicz. Faber and Faber. $27.
Both scholars of punk history and casual fans should enjoy this surprisingly frank and entertaining biography of legendary Clash frontman Joe Strummer.
God's Gift to Women: Chest-Thumping Bible Thumpers
2007-03-01
Chest-thumping bible thumpers
Poor People
2007-03-01
By William T. Vollmann. The author travels the world, posing an earnest question: "Why are some rich and others poor?"
One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers
2007-03-01
Did feminism die at Abu Ghraib?
Maxed Out: America's Dangerous Love Affair With Easy Credit
2007-03-01
America's dangerous love affair with easy credit.
Brain Teasers: The False Promises of Pop Neuroscience
2007-03-01
Pop neuroscience promises to reveal the secrets of life. Too bad the brain is a gray area.
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
2007-01-05
Compelling, if at times gruesome, Medical Apartheid connects past medical experiments and the woeful current state of health care for blacks.
Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
2007-01-01
By Jennifer Baumgardner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $24.
It's not easy being the silent B in LGBT. Jennifer Baumgardner tries to make it mean something.
Blocking the Courthouse Door
2007-01-01
So You Think You Want to Impeach?
2006-11-01
The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
2006-11-01
All Governments Lie!: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone
2006-09-01
By Myra MacPherson. Scribner. $35.
Running on Empty
2006-09-01
Looking for America in the wild red yonder
Blood Money: A Story of Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
2006-09-01
By T. Christian Miller. Little, Brown & Co. $24.99.
Forty Million Dollar Slaves
2006-07-05
How sports stardom has brought black athletes wealth without progress and prosperity without freedom.
The Girls Who Went Away
2006-07-01
Body Piercing Saved My Life
2006-07-01
Kevin Drum on the latest dispatches from the political language wars
2006-07-01
The latest dispatches from the framing wars
Book Review: The Latin American Roots of U.S. Imperialism
2006-05-08
The ideology behind current US Middle Eastern policy was shaped close to home.
Book Review: Mike Davis's "Planet of Slums"
2006-05-05
Mike Davis offers a grim preview of the planet's political future.
Birdwatching in Iraq
2006-05-01
A soldier goes birdwatching in Iraq
The Lemon Tree
2006-05-01
By Sandy Tolan. Bloomsbury. $24.95.
Conned
2006-05-01
By Sasha Abramsky. The New Press. $25.95.
The Left Hand of God
2006-03-24
The Left Hand of God. By Michael Lerner. HarperSanFrancisco. 416 pages. $24.95.
Our Town
2006-03-01
Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
By Cynthia Carr
Crown. $35.95
Undermining Mother Earth
2006-03-01
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness By Erik Reece. Riverhead Books. $23.95
Nell Bernstein on the war on hugs
2006-03-01
Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids. By Maia Szalavitz. Riverhead Books. 320 pages. $25.95.
Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth. By John Hubner. Random House. 277 pages. $25.95
Absolute Convictions
2006-03-01
Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City and the conflict that divided America
By Eyal Press. Henry Holt. $26.00
Book Review: Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury
2006-02-22
Gate of the Sun
By Elias Khoury
Translated by Humphrey Davies
Archipelago Books
$26
A Man's World
2006-01-25
Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back Again by By Norah Vincent. Viking. $24.95.
Postmodernism has resigned Upton Sinclair's book to the dustbin of history.
2006-01-01
Why the reputation of Upton Sinclair’s good book has gone bad.
Why Now Is the Worst Time to Be Young
2006-01-01
Why Now Is the Worst Time to Be Young. By Anya Kamenetz. Riverhead Books. $23.95.
Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West
2006-01-01
Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West. By Behzad Yaghmaian. Delacorte Press. $24.
Doubting Thomas
2005-12-01
On Tom Paine: The original American -- and original un-American.
Six Books on Religion
2005-12-01
Six Books on Religion
Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
2005-11-11
Nate Blakeslee.
PublicAffairs. $26.
Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music
2005-11-11
Chris Willman. The New Press. $25.95.
Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
2005-11-01
Mark Bowen. Henry Holt. $30.
Did Bush Steal the 2004 Election? Maybe Less Than You Think
2005-11-01
Was Ohio stolen? You might not like the answer.
Book Review: Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists by Jean H. Baker
2005-10-12
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists By Jean H. Baker. Hill and Wang. $25
Book Review: Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid
2005-09-09
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War. By Anthony Shadid. Henry Holt. $26.00
The Great White Way
2005-09-01
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White. By David R. Roediger. Basic Books. $26.95
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. By Ira Katznelson. W.W. Norton. $25.95
Jesus Land
2005-09-01
Jesus Land: A Memoir. By Julia Scheeres. Counterpoint. $23.
Book Review: Bait and Switch
2005-09-01
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. By Barbara Ehrenreich. Metropolitan Books. $23.
Book Review: Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
2005-07-01
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, By Elizabeth Royte. Little, Brown. $24.95.
Exploring how our unwanted stuff keeps disappearing.
Offshore
2005-07-01
Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy, By William Brittain-Catlin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $25.
L'Epoque Bullshit
2005-07-01
The Age of Discovery! The Space Age! The Enlightenment! To these glorious eras of history let us add the name of our own: The Age of Bullshit.
On Bullshit By Harry G. Frankfurt. Princeton University Press. 67 pages. $9.95.
Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit
By Laura Penny. Crown Publishers. 256 pages. $21.95.
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
2005-05-01
By Steven Johnson. Riverhead.
Finding George Orwell in Burma
2005-05-01
By Emma Larkin. The Penguin Press.
Genius Envy
2005-05-01
The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. By David Plotz. Random House.
Coffee: A Dark History
2005-05-01
By Antony Wild. W.W. Norton.
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
2005-03-01
A new book chronicling the politics, music, and culture of hip-hop
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story
2005-03-01
Young, educated, and homeless: one woman's account.
Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity
2005-03-01
A new book explores the battle between intellectual property and free speech.
Bad Education
2005-03-01
University, Inc. The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education, By Jennifer Washburn. Basic Books. 326 pages. $26.
Ending Slavery
2005-01-01
By Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin. $26.95.
Big Brother is Making Big Bucks
2005-01-01
No Place to Hide
By Robert O’Harrow Jr. Free Press. 368 pages. $26.
Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World
2005-01-01
By Robert Neuwirth. Routledge. $27.95.
Nice Big American Baby
2005-01-01
By Judy Budnitz. Alfred A. Knopf. $23
Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us
2005-01-01
By Christopher D. Cook. New Press. $24.95.
A Bad Bet
2004-11-01
Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future by Daniel Altman
It's All for Sale
2004-11-01
By James Ridgeway. Duke University Press. $18.95.
War Trash
2004-11-01
By Ha Jin, Pantheon. $25
Critical Condition
2004-11-01
How Health Care in America Became Big Business -- and Bad Medicine
A Novel Approach to Politics
2004-10-15
Unlike the news media, political novels offer genuine lessons for how to address our nation's problems in a moral way. Herewith, a dozen recommendations.
The Power and the Story
2004-09-01
What's a good way of predicting presidential races? Find the candidate with the best story to tell.
American Dream
2004-09-01
A New York Times reporter chronicles the post-Clinton welfare landscape.
This Is Burning Man
2004-09-01
An inside look at the event known only as Burning Man.
Deep Water
2004-09-01
Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment. By Jacques Leslie. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. $25.
Bitter Medicine
2004-09-01
Two books on the (big) business of the pharmaceutical industry.
Book Review: All the Right Moves
2004-07-01
The men from the Economist explain why conservatism won out in America.
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
2004-07-01
Franklin Foer tackles globalization from soccer fields around the world.
American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps
2004-07-01
A story of murder in Tonga and injustice in the U.S.
High Plains Films, 147 minutes
2004-05-01
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
2004-05-01
A Good Forrest for Dying
2004-05-01
A Dream Deferred: The Failed Legacy of Brown
2004-05-01
A mournful, contrarian dissection of the failed legacy of Brown v. Board of Education.
Elvis Reincarnate: Book Review on GraceLand
2004-03-01
Book Review: Perfectly Legal
2004-03-01
When it comes to paying taxes, David Cay Johnston has an ugly truth for you: You're getting screwed.
Book Review: Life on the Outside
2004-03-01
Jennifer Gonnerman gets it right in her merciless look at the human fallout of New York's drug laws.
Book Review: American Dynasty - Kevin Phillips
2004-01-01
Onetime GOP strategist Kevin Phillips takes on a world he knows well: Aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the House of Bush
Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers
2004-01-01
The Guerilla Girls are back with a fresh critique of female stereotypes.
The End of Blackness
2004-01-01
Debra Dickerson's fresh take on blackness in America.
Book Review: Tragic Indifference
2003-11-01
Adam L. Penenberg's retelling of the Ford-Firestone debacle is both a gripping court-room drama and an insightful investigation.
Book Review: Growing Up Fast
2003-11-01
Joanna Lipper's 'Growing Up Fast' is an unflinching, but respectful dissection of teen motherhood.
Book Review: Hearing America
2003-11-01
Studs Terkel's ode to activism provides a powerful lesson in how to listen.
Book Review: Supremacist Science
2003-09-01
American pseudo-science and the crimes of the Third Reich.
Book Review: The Empty Ocean
2003-07-01
How humans have 'harvested' the oceans to emptiness.
Book Review: The Language Police
2003-07-01
Why Johnny won't read Huckleberry Finn.
The World's Suffering 'Nobodies'
2003-05-01
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
By Paul Farmer. | University of California Press. $27.50.
Visions of War
2003-05-01
Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
Edited by Peter Howe. | $35.
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
2003-05-01
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
By Bill McKibben. | Henry Holt. $25.
Think Different
2003-05-01
Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use
By Jacob Sullum.|Tarcher/Putnam.
Gold Fever
2003-04-20
Searching for El Dorado: A Journey into the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's Largest Gold Rush
By Marc Herman | Nan A. Talese. 255 pages. $25.95
Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran
2003-03-01
Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran
By Geneive Abdo and Jonathan Lyons. | Henry Holt. $25.
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
2003-03-01
By Alissa Quart. | Current Affairs. $25.
Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
2003-03-01
Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
By Carl Elliott. | W.W. Norton. 320 pages. $26.95.
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
2003-01-01
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
By Laura Wexler | Scribner. $24.
Fat Land
2003-01-01
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
By Greg Critser | Houghton Mifflin. $24.
A Globalized Tinderbox
2003-01-01
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
By Amy Chua | Doubleday. 256 pages. $26.
Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America
2002-11-01
Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America
By Loretta Schwartz-Nobel | HarperCollins. 272 pages. $24.95.
Dead Cities: A Natural History
2002-11-01
Dead Cities: A Natural History
By Mike Davis. | The New Press. $27.95.
The Crazed
2002-11-01
By Ha Jin | Pantheon. $24.
Reviewed By Tim Dickinson
The New HNIC (Head Niggas in Charge): The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop
2002-11-01
By Todd Boyd | New York University Press. $22.95.
Between the Lines
2002-11-01
The Next Energy Source?
2002-09-01
The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth
By Jeremy Rifkin | Tarcher/Putnam. $24.95
Grading a School's First Year
2002-09-01
Hard Lessons: The Promise of an Inner City Charters School
By Jonathan Schorr | Ballantine Books
Misguided Aid
2002-09-01
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
By David Rieff | Simon & Schuster. 351 pages. $26
Media Jones
2002-05-01
Media Jones
2002-03-01
One Soldier's View
2002-01-06
Jarhead: A Marine' s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
By Anthony Swofford | Scribner. $24.
Media Jones
2002-01-01
Media Jones
2001-11-01
Media Jones
2001-09-01
Media Jones
2001-07-01
Media Jones
2001-05-01
Celluloid Sirens, Then and Now
2001-03-21
This year's Oscar nominees may seem to reflect a resurgence of strong roles for women, but compare them to the women stars of pre-Code Hollywood, and 2001 looks like the Dark Ages.
Media Jones
2001-03-01
Business as Unusual, continued
2001-01-19
Business as Unusual, continued
2001-01-19
Business as Unusual, continued
2001-01-19
Business as Unusual
2001-01-19
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop and a member of Mother Jones' board of directors, has made a career of melding entrepreneurship and activism. In this, the first chapter of her new book, she explains how and why she dedicated herself to changing the way the world does business.
Stirring Recollections
2001-01-01
How do you pick the best writing to come out of the civil-rights movement? Tom Wicker -- who has covered the politics of race since the '60s -- examines a new anthology and finds some long-lost treasures.
Media Jones
2001-01-01
Novel Gifts for the Holidays
2000-11-01
Veteran organizer and University of California professor Arthur Blaustein recommends fiction titles to challenge the imagination, open the mind, and (just maybe) change the world.
Media Jones
2000-11-01
River Trips Gone Awry
2000-11-01
Without a Paddle
Dead Man Warbling
2000-10-27
The latest version of Sister Helen Prejean's story is all right, if you like opera. But why doesn't anyone make big-budget spectaculars about prisoners who aren't on death row?
Enter the Green World
2000-09-02
CULTURE: She may be known as a purveyor of 'chick music,' but Dar Williams is not your average shrinking violet liberal singer-songwriter, as her new album shows.
Media Jones
2000-09-01
Media Jones
2000-07-01
Star Spanglish Banner
Media Jones
2000-07-01
Media Jones
2000-03-01
Media Jones
1999-11-01
Pacifism Rocks!
Media Jones
1999-01-01
Media that really was a good idea
MediaJones
1998-07-01
The Top Five: Religion in America, Book and music reviews, Grand slam: new niches for sports magazines, Media picks
Media Picks
1998-05-01
Words to Live By
1998-05-01
25 political novels for summer reading
Globe-Trotting Page-Turners
1998-03-01
MediaJones
1998-03-01
Essay: Mixing genres in whirled music; Book reviews; Foreign currency: keeping up with global magazines; Travel writing
Media Picks
1998-01-01
Zero Baud
1998-01-01
MediaJones
1998-01-01
ESSAY: The legacy of casual Fridays; Book and music reviews; Media Picks: Esther Dyson; Zero Baud: New media magazines offline.
Media Picks
1997-11-01
The Best of What's New
1997-09-01
HOT!media
1997-09-01
Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.
Media Picks
1997-07-01
HOT!media
1997-07-01
Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.
Media Picks
1997-05-01
HOT!media
1997-05-01
Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.
Media Picks
1997-03-01
The Best of What's New
1997-03-01
Hot!media
1997-03-01
Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.
The Best of What's New
1997-01-01
Media Picks
1997-01-01
Hot!media
1997-01-01
Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.
The best of what's new
1996-11-01
Media Picks
1996-11-01
Hot!media
1996-11-01
Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.
Media Picks
1996-09-01
The best of what's new
1996-09-01
Hot!media
1996-09-01
Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.
20 Required Readings: John B. Judis
1996-07-01
Media Picks
1996-07-01
Hot!media
1996-07-01
Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.
The Best of What's New
1996-05-01
Hot Pics
1996-03-01
Hot!media
1996-03-01
The following are suggested books and other resources on topics covered in this issue.
Hot!Media
1996-01-01
Hot Pics
1996-01-01
Media Picks
1996-01-01
What's new and noteworthy, and some book advice from a friend.
Media Picks
1995-11-01
A sampling of what's new and noteworthy, chosen with a little help from a friend:
HOT!Media
1995-11-01
Media Picks
1995-09-01
HOTMedia
1995-09-01
HOTMedia
1995-07-01
Photography
1995-05-01
The Good Life
1995-05-01
OK, OK, so this isn't your everyday light summer reading list. We asked a group of noted authors to describe the books that shaped their characters.
For Further Reading
1995-05-01
HOTmedia
1995-05-01
Political Primers
1993-05-01
A basic booklist for those who would understand--or guide--the Clinton era.
Bono Bites Back
1989-05-01
CULTURE: Twelve years ago, Bono fronted the world's ultimate band, U2, scooping up Grammys, making movies, ruling rock 'n' roll. Now Bono and the boys are back on top with a new armful of Grammys, and much of the old iconoclastic attitude. (Updated February 2001)