Book Reviews

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Getting By With A Little Help From Yourself

Donna Albergotti | Posted 07.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Book Reviews, Self-Help Books, Vegetarianism, Health, Happiness, Diets, Dieting, Green Living, Green Dining, Living News

Kathy Freston conducts a one-on-one conversation that encourages readers to do a self-exam of what makes themselves tick and to formulate a plan for making life a meaningful and rewarding journey.

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Book Review: Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth

Andrew Frisicano | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Books, Music, Book Reviews, Huffpost Books, David Browne, Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Media News

Take note: Sonic Youth's story is largely unglamorous. And rightfully so. While excising rock from its blues roots, SY also managed to create a new paradigm of the rock star.

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Why Entertainment Weekly Rules the World

Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Movie Reviews, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Entertainment Weekly, New Yorker, Book Reviews, American Idol, TV Guide, Magazines, Ew, Media News

Too many readers are concerned about prestige rather than learning something. EW takes us to new places because the magazine covers only what is new.

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Book Review: Hold Tight

Fred Klein | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Book Reviews, Harlan Coben, Huffpost Books, Books, Media News

Coben is not only one of today's top selling thriller writers, he has almost single handedly spawned a special category, that of contemporary domestic suspense.

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Why Are We Always on the Wrong Side? (A Comic Book Offers Answers)

Peter Miller | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Book Reviews, Comic Books, A People’s History of American Empire, Howard Zinn, Documentary Film, Living News

Howard Zinn's new, A People's History of American Empire provides a damning account of America's empire building - And it does it all with cartoons.

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Book Review: "Slip Of The Knife"

Fred Klein | Posted 05.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Book Review, Books, Book Reviews, Huffpost Books, Media News

"Slip of the Knife" by Denise Mina For inveterate mystery fans, finding a new voice can be a wonderful jolt, like discovering your own personal oil w...

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Book Review: "Child 44"

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Child 44, Books, Book Reviews, Huffpost Books, Media News

"Child 44" - Audio Book by Tom Rob Smith; Narrator: Dennia Boutsikaris While there are flashes of a compelling police mystery in this first novel b...

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The Best Meteorology Novel of the Year

Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 04.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Novels, Book Reviews, Rivka Galchen, Publishing, Meteorology, Books, Huffpost Books, Entertainment News

A review of mine that just appeared in The Forward: Atmospheric Disturbances By Rivka Galchen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pages, $24. Having just...

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Being Judged

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 04.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Book Reviews, Political Rhetoric, White House Ghosts, Presidential Rhetoric, Presidential Speechwriting, Media News

It's a strange thing, reading your first book review. You want to rush through it, find the judgment. You force yourself to read it in full. And of course you look for the pull quote.

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It's the Humanity, Stupid!

Peter Clothier | Posted 03.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Book Reviews, Religion, Thailand, Buddhism, The Gospel of Father Joe, Books, Huffpost Books, Living News

The Gospel of Father Joe is really about salvation, about hope amidst the hopeless, about compassion -- not as some kind of religious imperative but as lived experience.

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