Spelling The Blues Thanks to Langston Hughes, most Americans know what happens to a dream deferred. It dies. But what about a dream misspelled? For this [...] John Freeman \ Sep 01, 2005 Read More
Yip-Ee-Yi-Yay! American sports culture is as diverse as it is divergent. NBA hopefuls, competitive cheerleaders and freestyle BMXers can prosper and fail in states [...] John Dicker \ Aug 25, 2005 Read More
Prophets And Prophecies In addition to being one of America's finest prose stylists, Michael Cunningham has an uncanny knack for making himself a vessel for other [...] John Freeman \ Aug 25, 2005 Read More
Alt.press Sword Across Time boasts an ambitious story line, particularly for a first novel. Tamara is an investigative reporter for a New York magazine [...] Kane S. Latranz \ Aug 11, 2005 Read More
Welcome To My Unhappy Childhood Being rich has never been insurance against being unhappy. This doesn't mean the rich are greedy, just that when the heart truly aches, [...] John Freeman \ Aug 11, 2005 Read More
Lighten Up, Will Ya? From the beginning, Banana Yoshimoto has been eerily preoccupied with loss and slumber. Her blockbuster debut novel, Kitchen, which sold 2 million copies [...] John Freeman \ Aug 04, 2005 Read More
Armchair Traveling In today's world, where multiculturalism and political correctness reign, one wouldn't expect to see a book declaring that the Irish are drunks, Mexicans [...] Ashley Gauthier \ Aug 04, 2005 Read More
Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut, Sometimes You Don'T Therapists would have a diagnostic field day with the cast of Holiday Reinhorn's debut short story collection, Big Cats. Some of the characters [...] John Freeman \ Jul 28, 2005 Read More
Waiting To Inhale Most of us believe that childhood should be a time for innocence—cartwheels, pigtails, lollipops and cheap movies ... your basic Saturday Evening Post [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jul 28, 2005 Read More
Ice, Ice Baby Canadian author Deborah Jackson holds a science degree and is a skilled writer with an impressive imagination. That said, her debut adult science [...] Kane S. Latranz \ Jul 21, 2005 Read More