Book Reviews

My Review of Sarah Palin's New Book Going Rogue Without Actually Having Read It

Beth Armogida | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Book Reviews, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Memoir, John McCain, Sarah Palin Memoir, Book Review, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin, Comedy News
Beth Armogida

If anything, Going Rogue shows how a woman from a small town in Alaska can go from burning books to writing them.

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Washington Times Shake-Ups Connected To New President's Book Review?

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Newspapers, Washington Times Staffing, Washington Times, Books, Book Reviews, Clash of the Gods Review, Clash of the Gods, Jonathan Slevin, Washington Times Book Review, Books News

Given today's big management changes and still-unanswered questions about whether executive editor John Solomon will stay at the paper, there are a lo...

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A Sneak Peek At New Books

Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Alexander McCall Smith, Under the Dome, Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver the Lacuna, Sunday Book Review, The Lacuna, Stephen King, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, Books, Mary Karr Lit, Lit, Book Review, Samuel Johnson, Book Reviews, Stephen King Under the Dome, Mary Karr, China, David Nokes, Books News

This week, the book review round-up includes some reviews from insider journals Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist, which often get the scoop on n...

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Andre Agassi's "Open": Meth, Bitterness, And Bad Hair (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: The Tender Bar, Ghostwriting, Books, Addiction, New Books, Tennis, French Open, Andre Agassi Book, Steffi Graf, Brooke SHields, US Open, Wimbledon, Katie Couric, Andre Agassi Open, Open, Book Reviews, Memoir, Andre Agassi, Moehringer, Andre Agassi Meth, Books News

Andre Agassi's new memoir, Open, out today, has been causing a stir because of major revelations in the book -- that Agassi used crystal meth regular...

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STRIP & REBIND: Why Publicists Love the Word "No"

Cassie Ammerman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Book Reviews, Publicists, Publicity, Writing, Book Publishing, Blogs, Authors, Book Publicity, Biography, Books, Book Publicists, Newspapers, Books News
Cassie Ammerman

There is a word that publicists love almost as much as "yes." And it's "no." Seems counterintuitive, right? But it's true. There is little I love more than a solid "no."

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ISO My Twitter Persona

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 11.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Project Runway, Twitter, Writing, Books, Book Reviews, Book Promotion, Youtube, Branding, Facebook, Top Chef, Books News
Sarah Schmelling

I'd just had an event at a popular L.A. bookstore. I saw old friends, answered great questions, sold a good amount of books. But that next morning I realized: I hadn't tweeted it.

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Confronting Words: Poetry Reviews

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Yusef Komunyakaa, Poetry, Carol Muske-Dukes, Reetika Vazirani, Molly Bendall, UNDER the QUICK, Carpathia, Book Reviews, Poetry Reviews, Ecilia Woloch, Books, Chinder, Poems, Books News
Carol Muske-Dukes

The three books reviewed here are by women writers who confront the world in uncompromised fashion.

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News
Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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The Help: Kathryn Stockett's Controversial Hit

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Fiction, To Kill a Mockingbird, Book Reviews, The Help, Dialect, Kathryn Stockett, Kathryn Stockett the Help, New Books, Books, African Americans, Bestsellers, New Authors, Books News

First-time author Kathryn Stockett's recent book, The Help, has risen quickly through the bestseller lists despite Stockett being previously unknown a...

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The Novice: A Book Review

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Book Reviews, Buddhism, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Living News
Peter Clothier

At loose ends and casting about for some kind of meaning to his life, he breaks away from family and home, and describes his discovery and embrace of Buddhism.

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Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Progressive Book Club, Al Gore, Book Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Green, Global Warming, Gore Solutions Summit, Pollution, Al Gore an Inconvenient Truth, Environment, Our Choice, Al Gore Book Review, Environmental, Environmental Problems, Fossil Fuels, Al Gore Book, Going Green, Books, Al Gore Our Choice, One Year Later, Books News

Bill McKibben Progressive Book Club Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis By Al Gore Rodale, 2009 There's been a certain amount of debate ...

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Why I Don't Want to Be the Next Amy Tan

Celeste Ng | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Amy Tan, Ethnicity, Writing, Fiction, Chinese-American, Chinese Culture, Asian Americans, Race, Culture, Asian American Literature, Chinese American Literature, Books News
Celeste Ng

Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style. Because if a review compared me to Amy Tan on those measures, rather than on just our shared culture, I'd be proud.

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What's Next For Jonathan Safran Foer And Eating Animals?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman, Animal Cruelty, Everything Is Illuminated, Book Reviews, Natalie Portman Eating Animals, Eating Meat, Agriculture, New Books, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Vegetarian, Book Review, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Food Politics, Safran Foer Eating Animals, Books, Farming, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Factory Farms, Bestsellers, Books News

Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Anne Rice, Vollman, Books, Writing, Eoin Colfer, Douglas Adams, Harold Evans, New Books, Tobias Hill, Book Review, Daniel Goldhagen, Book Reviews, Lee Eisenberg, Memoir, Jason Epstein, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Books News

Here it is, your weekly book review round-up: Eating, Jason Epstein The New York Times The book is delicious, in its minimalist, essayistic way. But...

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When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins

Elaine Showalter | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: The National Organization for Women, Progressive Book Club, American Women, Gender Equality, Book Reviews, Civil Rights, Women's History, Mad Men, Equal Rights Amendment, Betty Draper, Women, Gail Collins When Everything Changed, Books, Mad Men Betty Draper, When Everything Changed, Gail Collins, Books News
Elaine Showalter

Collins uses her great sense of revealing anecdotes, engaging personalities, representative case histories, resonant stories, and startling details to defamiliarize a decade we thought we remembered.

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Spotted Reading Publicly

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Reading Publicly, Trains, Books, Subways, Reading, Airports, Tucker Max, Poisonwood Bible, The Help, Blink, Stephanie Meyer, Steig Larsson, Randy Pausch, Jane Green, Wimpy Kid, Beer in Hell, Kingsolver, Kinney, Middlesex, Kathryn-Stockett, Waiting Room, Last Lecture, Gladwell, Twighlight, New York, Book Reviews, Books News
Amy Hertz

We all have different ways of discovering books, and spotting them being read in public is just one. At Huffington Post, we are very interested in what people are reading around the country.

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Superfreakonomics, Sunday Book Review, Chuck Klosterman, Book Review, Book Reviews, Dracula, John Irving, The Humbling, Books, Dorothea Lange, Philip Roth, Neverland, Books News

We're back again with your weekly book review round-up: Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of "Peter Pan", Piers Dudgeon The...

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If It's Art, Must It Be Pornography?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Women, Children, Books, Writing, Media, Sexual Abuse, Strip Clubs, Pornography, Amazon.com, New Yourk Times, Art, Boston Globe, Reviews, Times Picayune, Eve Ensler, Strippers, Andre Dubus, Book Reviews, New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Vagina Monologues, Books News
Georgianne Nienaber

I'm all for freedom expression even when it comes to veiled pornography, but I don't want to be tricked into buying it for God's sake.

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The Form of the Book

Peter Clothier | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Design, Book Reviews, Book Publishing, Buddhism, Books, Living News
Peter Clothier

There is something to be said for a great book. There is even more to say for a nicely made book. And the one I'm currently reading somehow manages to be both.

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Bright-Sided: Smart Analysis Or Missing Something?

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Positive Thinking, Bright-Sided, Positivity, Books, Nora Ephron, The Secret, Power of Positive Thinking, Optimism, Book Reviews, New Books, Bright-Sided Book Review, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed, Poll, Bestsellers, Books News

Barbara Ehrenreich's new book, Bright-Sided, has been the source of a great book review debate recently. Following eye-opening accounts such as Nickel...

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: They Knew Then, Sunday Book Review, Book Review, Book Reviews, Half-Broke Horses, The Wild Things, Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw, Stripping Bare the Body, Books, Chronic City, Lydia Davis, Spooner, Books News

Your weekly book review round-up: The Wild Things, Dave Eggers The San Francisco Chronicle The reader knows from the picture book how the story will...

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New York Review: The Blog (Preview)

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Nobel, Supreme Court, Dworkin, Books, Jonathan Raban, Nyr, Italy, New York Review of Books, Blogs, Garry Wills, Blog, New York Review, Book Reviews, Hillary Clinton, Town Hall Meetings, Reading, Blogging, China, Healthcare, Books News

The New York Review of Books, our content partner, Is teasing its new site by giving us a peek at their brand new blog section today. As usual it is f...

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Book Review Round-Up

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Joyce Carol Oates, Book Review, Book Reviews, Richard Dawkins, Dan Chaon, The Lost Symbol, R. Crumb, Books, The Good Soldiers, Dan Brown, Nobel Prize, Books News

A lot of the New York Times reviews were repeats this week, but, nonetheless, we bring you the weekend book review round-up. The Lost Symbol, Dan Bro...

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Why Michiko? Why?

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, New York Time Book Review, Books News
Gerald Sindell

This week in the "Have You No Shame" department, I need to follow up on the N.Y. Time's proclivity to heap multiple reviews on pet books while giving zero coverage to thousands of other worthies.

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New Michael Chabon Book/Excerpts from NYR

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Michael Chabon, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, New Books, Books, Manhood for Amateurs, Memoir, Bestsellers, Nyr, Books News

Between Ayelet's controversial 2005 New York Times article and ensuing Oprah appearance and Michael's new non-fiction, the Chabon family is out to ent...

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