Book Reviews

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Monday, 14 August 2006 02:13

As a manifesto of uncooling and demarketing, Design Anarchy is high-octane ammo, an attempt to recapture a little of what was going on in Paris in the late ’60s and what the Situationists had been hoping for: an end to the solemn existence of modern man, and more joyful displays of spontaneity.

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Monday, 14 August 2006 02:06

The only consistency the book manages is the sophomoric nature of the writing, which wants so badly to tap into the poetic ethos that even its attempted earnestness smacks of tiresome literary posing.

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Written by Laura Hamlett Friday, 07 July 2006 07:25

52 depressing songs is about 50 too many to hold my interest.

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Friday, 30 June 2006 18:00

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Friday, 30 June 2006 18:00

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Friday, 30 June 2006 18:00

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Written by Janelle Greenwood Tuesday, 23 May 2006 06:22

As a former Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires, Leopold takes the memoir deep into his own rabbit hole of addiction, theft, and eventual recovery.

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Written by James McAnally Tuesday, 23 May 2006 06:19

The Essential Interviews effectively does the most important work a book on Dylan can do—namely, it lets him speak.

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Written by Byron Kerman Tuesday, 23 May 2006 06:16

Black Swan Green is small, as childhood is small, and epic as only coming-of-age can be. It doesn’t wear out its welcome.

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Written by Shandy Casteel Tuesday, 23 May 2006 06:11

Coupland himself mocks Ethan and prowls the countryside of China, humorless Chinese underworld kingpin Kam Fong becomes a family friend and dance partner, and Ronald McDonald is the object of ridicule and desire—and ultimately the murderous avenging demonic force the jPodders hope to slip into their game, which is gradually being wrestled way from them.

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Monday, 01 May 2006 05:56

Who knew Bigfoot was so eloquent? Or angry? Or hilarious? The big guy has had his share of ups and downs.

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Written by Shandy Casteel Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:50

As Johnson writes, his approach is more “systemic than symbolic,” eschewing the usual tact of “zeitgeist” criticism and academic cultural studies, something that is closer “to physics than to poetry.”