Crossroad Blues In "A Right To Sing the Blues," tackles the black/Jewish relationship in the entertainment industry from a snide perspective. [10-25-99] — Chris Fujiwara, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Accept All Substitutes Naomi Klein's "No Logo" damns corporate marketing with a naive grasp of pre-Reagan consumerism. [10-25-99] — Robert David Sullivan, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Plain Livin' Kent Haruf's latest novel "Plainsong" gives voice to rough-hewn Westerners. [10-18-99] — John Freeman, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Growing Pains Lynda Barry's "Cruddy" is a stunningly good coming-of-age novel. [10-18-99] — Megan Harlan, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Soul Searching Though elusive about the events of her life, Carson McCullers's memoirs shed fresh light on her work. [10-04-99] — Graham Christian, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Lost in Translation Two new books on poet Rainer Maria Rilke prove how easy it is to get lost in translation. [10-04-99] — John Freeman, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Mickey Marx American studies prof Andrew Ross takes a look inside Disney's Florida residential utopia. [09-27-99] — Robert David Sullivan, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Corrupting Influence Two books, by veteran reporters Bob Woodward and Elizabeth Drew, explain how Washington fell apart. [09-27-99] — Neil Miller, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Sound of Freedom Music historian Peter Guralnick's re-issued pop trilogy of offers an ongoing critique of the war between regionalism and the mainstream. [09-20-99] — Jon Garelick, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Innocence Lost Nancy Huston's "The Mark of an Angel" turns a terrible truth into a work of art. [09-20-99] — David Valdes Greenwood, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Warped Speed James Gleick's "Faster" is too quick a study of the accelerating pace of contemporary life. [09-13-99] — Damon Smith, THE BOSTON PHOENIX A Worker's Life Po Bronson's "The Nudist on the Late Shift" spells out some naked truths about Silicon Valley. [09-13-99] — Michael Joseph Gross, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Rebel Without Applause To hear Norman Mailer tell it, the world has already gone to hell. [09-07-99] — Chris Wright, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Call it Zydeco! "Zydeco!" with photos by Rick Olivier and text by Ben Sandmel, explains one of Louisiana's grand musical mysteries. [08-23-99] — Ted Drozdowski, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Snow Job In her new novel "Snow Man," author Carolyn Chute trades one hell for another. [08-09-99] — Sarah Schulman, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Haughty Libertine Gore Vidal may want to overthrow heterosexuality, but his just-published anthology of sex pieces proves he's no liberal. [08-09-99] — Adam Kirsch, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Well Wed In "What Is Marriage For?" E.J. Graff embraces a notion that will push buttons on the left and the right: marriage is good for the individual, even the gay individual. [08-02-99] — David Valdes Greenwood, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Satanic Verses Stacey Richter's "My Date with Satan" is an absorbing collection of mordant stories about goths, cybersex devotees, and believers in UFOs. [08-02-99] — Katherine Guckenberger, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Ode to Code "Cryptonomicon," Neal Stephenson's fictionalized history of cryptology is short on substance but long on style. [07-26-99] — Andrew Weiner, THE BOSTON PHOENIX War Memories Novelist Pat Barker's "Another World" chases the ghosts of World War One around the home front. [07-19-99] — John Freeman, THE BOSTON PHOENIX More Books Archives...
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