Stunted development
Dennis Johnson
Matthew Honan holds A.J. Jacobs responsible for the rise of “stunt books” — “like when you read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica and wrote about it in your best-selling book The… Read more »
Matthew Honan holds A.J. Jacobs responsible for the rise of “stunt books” — “like when you read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica and wrote about it in your best-selling book The… Read more »
“We are sold books the same way we are sold cell phones, as if the latest models deserve the most attention,” complains Nathan Ihara in an LA Weekly commentary …… Read more »
Kathleen Rooney’s book of “autobiographical essays,” some of which were about her time as a “mid-level aide” to Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin and her “frustrations as a political office worker… 6 / Read more »
They were a rather legendary outfit: The Unbearables. For the uninitiated: …. a loose confederation of poets and writers who came of age in 1980s and 90s New York. Infamous… Read more »
“Where you do your reading, and how much unbroken time you can give to it, will arguably shape your experience far more than does the difference between screen and page.… Read more »
A new book intends to set the record straight on an unfairly tarnished reputation — that of Oscar the Cat. According to a Reuters wire story, Oscar “adopted as a… Read more »
Christopher Hitchens says that when thinking of how to characterize North Korea, he’s reminded that “Karl Marx in his Eighteenth Brumaire wrote that those trying to master a new language… Read more »
After panning the new Harry Potter book in a San Francisco Chronicle review — “It’s not that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is dull, exactly. In places, it rises… Read more »
In her Book Standard column, Jessa Crispin says that mainstream book reviewers who try to cover comics tend to come up wanting because “They didn’t know comic books, and they… Read more »
The Women’s Review of Books, which ceased publication last December due to dwindling subscribers and soaring debt, will resume publication in January, thanks to the addition of a new publishing… Read more »