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New Reviews
March 22-28, 2006

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France by Fernanda Eberstadt
Written Lives: Essays by Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Recent Reviews

Accelerando by Charles Stross
The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971 edited by Clinton Heylin
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I edited by Meredith Tromble
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer

Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
Best American Erotica 2005 edited by Susie Bright
The Best of the Spirit by Will Eisner
Beyond the Naked Eye: Details From the National Gallery by Jill Dunkerton and Rachel Billinge
The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World by Christy Campbell
Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922 by Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing and Democracy by John Harrington
Cities of the World: A History in Maps by Peter Whitfield
Come On In!: New Poems by Charles Bukowski
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind
Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House by Ken Goffman
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
Crap Jobs: 100 Tales Of Workplace Hell edited by Dan Kieran
Curry: A Tale of Cooks & Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham

Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America by James Green
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss by Brad Matsen
Desert Queen by Janet Wallach
Desertion by Keith Lovegrove
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff
The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andres Eames
Everybody Into the Pool: True Tales by Beth Lisick

Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us by Allen Salkin
The Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters
A Fire to Win by John Lombardo
First and Fifteenth: Pop Art Short Stories by Steve Powers
The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella O. Parsons by Samantha Barbas
Flashman on The March by George MacDonald Fraser
Food in Painting: From the Renaissance To the Present by Kenneth Bendiner
From Asahi to Zebras by Ralph M. Pearce

Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin
Going Postal by Mark Ames
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker by Tim Gallagher
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Greetings From the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005 by Kim Stringfellow

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Here Is Where We Meet by John Berger
High Holy Adventure: Spirits, Shamans & Mediums I Know and Love by Randy Fuller
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Hugs: Thoughtlead by Mike Ogilvie

Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes
Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
It's Not About the Bra by Brandi Chastain
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale

La Perdida by Jessica Abel
The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California edited by Lauren Coodley
The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo by Daniel Liebowitz and Charles Pearson
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke
The Life of David by Robert Pinsky
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex by Susan Shapiro
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk
The Lion in Autumn—A Season With Joe Paterno and Penn State Football by Frank Fitzpatrick
Little Green: Growing Up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Chun Yu
Living With the Changing California Coast by Gary Griggs
Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol. 4 edited by Maxim Jakubowski
Matisse the Master—A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
Mencken, the American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of the Bad Boy of Baltimore by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu by Mike Davis
Myself & the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman

Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler by Michael Rosenthal
No Heaven by Alicia Ostriker

The Order of the Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger
The Oxford Guide to Library Research by Thomas Mann

Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World by Daniel Imhoff
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts
Pronoia by Rob Brezsny

The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T. Kryza
Railroad: Identity, Design and Culture by Keith Lovegrove
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul by Scott Weidensaul
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly
The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery and Lore of the Persian Carpet by Brian Murphy

San Jose's Historic Downtown by Bob Johnson and Lauren Miranda
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright by Jean Nathan
The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods and the End of Earth First! by Kate Coleman
A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk about Their Craft, Lives and Inspiration by Michael Shapiro
The Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliot
The Simpsons: One Step Beyond Forever edited by Jesse L. McCaan
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever by Leslie Savan
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
Spice: A History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
Still Standing: A Century of Urban Train Station Design by Christopher Brown
The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl by Tim Pratt
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald

Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia and Deco by Anthony Holden
Take Me by Nyree Belleville
Tart by Jody Gehrman
The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment
Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey by Bill Roorbach
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
Towelhead by Alicia Erian
The Trudeau Vector by Juris Jurjevics
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole by Bruce Henderson
Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss

Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird

What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff
Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender
The Wit in the Dungeon with essays by Kendall H. Brown and Sharon A. Miniciello

Zorro by Isabel Allende

 

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