AltBooks

>FEBRUARY 2, 2006

Dark Star Safari examines Africa's beauty, misery
Paul Theroux's travel book is reflexively critical.
by Thomas Davis

>NOVEMBER 10, 2005

Travels With My Chicken goes nowhere, and not fast
by Bill Jenkins

King's the Dark Tower is the pinnacle of his career
by Jeremy Webster

>MAY 5, 2005

High across the prairie
Steve Otto's latest novel takes an honest look at 1970s Kansas.
by Tim Pouncey

>APRIL 28, 2005

Travel shows Goldbarth's once-and-for-all-rightness
Jedd Beaudoin

>MARCH 17, 2005

Encyclopedia is uncommon fun
by Jessica Blehm

>FEBRUARY 10, 2005

God's Politics offers vision of the new Left
by Jedd Beaudoin

>DECEMBER 23, 2004

A Star Called Henry shines
by Lisa Kilmer

>NOVEMBER 18, 2004

Fate comes around in the end
by Dale Stuckey

>OCTOBER 28, 2004

Left wing finds its battle cry
by Hibbard Davis

Ordinary Wolves is an exotic dream
by Trix Niernberger

Fire Point captures a hard world
by Bruce Jacobs

>SEPTEMBER 23, 2004

Pressure a must-have for Rush fans
by Jedd Beaudoin

>SEPTEMBER 2, 2004

Under the Banner of Heaven captivating
by Dale T. Stuckey

>JULY 15, 2004

Kill Your Idols abandons nostalgia
by Jedd Beaudoin

A Million Little Pieces an honest story of an addict, alcoholic
by Jessica Blehm

>JUNE 10, 2004

Learn what it means to be Tweedy
by Jedd Beaudoin

>JUNE 3, 2004

Exception reveals Oilygarchy's lies
by Trix Niernberger

>MAY 20, 2004

No Touch Monkey funny, conversational
by Lisa Kilmer

Oracle Night a more lucid Auster
by Blake Fry

>MAY 13, 2004

Snow in Havana is a good read
But the author's pinning for days gone by boarders on whining.
by Hibbard Davis

>APRIL 29, 2004

Bushwomen outlines Bush's chicks
For the women in the Bush White House, public image and the public records are two very different things.
by Trix Niernberger

>APRIL 22, 2004

Oryx's sci-fi prose never sucks
by Jessica Blehm

>APRIL 15, 2004

Beast an excellent intro to metal
Literate on topics from Nowegian black metal to mid-'80s L.A. hair bands and all points between, Sound of the Beast packs in the knöwledge.
by Jedd Beaudoin

>APRIL 8, 2004

Literary Thrilling Tales is uneven
by Blake Fry

>APRIL 1, 2004

Think yourself anything you want
Thinking yourself thin may work, but don't try it on your boobs.
by Jessica Blehm

>MARCH 25, 2004

Second Death is no Solitude
by Jessica Blehm

>MARCH 11, 2004

Jarhead puts readers in the fight
by Jessica Blehm

>FEBRUARY 26, 2004

The Guru of Love tells a busy, confusing tale
by Jessica Blehm

>FEBRUARY 19, 2004

Barry Sanders is no tell-all
And that's OK
by Jessica Blehm

>FEBRUARY 12, 2004

Books offer refuge, new world views
by Hibbard Davis

>JANUARY 29, 2004

Youth as stifling as 169 pages of math
by Jessica Blehm

Down and Dirty flawed but compelling cinema history
by Jason Bailey

>JANUARY 22, 2004

Middlesex more than just incest and hermaphrodites
by Jessica Blehm

>NOVEMBER 6, 2003

The book that is Bud's
by Mike Marlett

>JULY 10, 2003

Tragedy turns into political tool
In the Presence of My Enemies,Gracia Burnham
by Steve Otto

Little House on the Prairie, 100 years later
The Center of Everything,Laura Moriarty, New York: Hyperion, 2003
by Trix Niernberger

>MAY 1, 2003

Goldbarth goes prose
In Pieces of Payne, Goldbarth's references range from Pliny the Elder to Melville to Ultra Boy and Dream Girl.
by Bruce Jacobs

Life of Pi rich in wonder
Yann Martel's Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize in 2002. The paperback hits shelves this month.
by Scott Harper

All that glitters is Goldbarth
Poet-turned-novelist reads at Ulrich
by Jedd Beaudoin

>APRIL 24, 2003

Yellowed Pages: Running Wild
Yellowed Pages features notable books you may have missed .J.G. Ballard's Running Wild was firstpublished in 1988.
by Charles Hankins

Middlesex a worthwhile sprawl
Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides, won this year's Pulitzer Prize for literature for his latest novel, Middlesex .
by Scott Harper

>MARCH 6, 2003

Maya Angelou focus of latest in book discussion series
by Sarah Yost

Vagabonding changes lives
by Mike Marlett