nonfiction
V.25 No.21 | 05/26/2016
Literature
Local Author Fair at Page 1 Books
Page 1 Books is hosting another Small Press and Local Author Fair.
V.25 No.8 | 02/25/2016
Seemann/ Morguefile
Literature
Local Author Fair at Page One Books
Buy books from local authors and small presses.
V.24 No.19 | 5/7/2015
Summer Guide 2015
Swimming Holes, Cement Ponds and Summer Reading
Get your RDI of sunshine and prose
Summer reading so good you’ll unburden yourself from gravity and float through the heat waves.
Book Review
Just Say No to Prohibition
Johann Hari challenges a devastating 100-year experiment
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
We’ve lost the War on Drugs. So what’s next?
V.24 No.14 | 4/2/2015
Book Review
Flaws and All
Boris Johnson’s The Churchill Factor personalizes a legend
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Former journalist and London mayor Boris Johnson’s vigorous, readable take reveals the legend for what he was—human, flawed and interesting as hell.
V.24 No.8 | 2/19/2015
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Read Between the Lines
And meet these authors in the flesh
Report like a girl
Your to-be-read pile just got bigger. Whether you love history, fiction, sports or science, meet these authors touring the 505.
V.24 No.6 | 2/5/2015
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Sex Ape
Are humans ready to learn from our most promiscuous cousins?
The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace Through Pleasure
Sexologist Dr. Susan Block has a unique solution to human sexual and social happiness: Follow the example of our great ape cousins, the bonobos.
V.24 No.2 | 1/8/2015
Book Review
Perl in the Rough
Easy Street (The Hard Way)
Ron Perlman’s new memoir offers rock-solid wisdom on the movie industry and growing up weird. But maybe skip the end?
V.23 No.50 | 12/11/2014
Arts Feature
A Long-Lost Field Guide for the Soul
Rediscover an ecstatic, mystic book of nature writing
How a slender volume unearthed by Terry Tempest and Brooke Williams in a dusty bookstore became the antidote to “a poverty of the soul.”
Book Review
Get Lost in a Literary Guia Roji
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
Part personal diary and part dark tale of investigative journalism, Francisco Goldman’s memoir twists and turns in a multitude of directions.
V.23 No.36 | 9/4/2014
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The Soldiers on Our Streets
How our protectors have gone from Barney Fife to Robocop
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop documents a disturbing shift on America’s streets.
V.23 No.24 | 6/12/2014
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Sunday Best
Artemis Awakening
Whether you’ve a hankering for summery sci-fi or the history of food, two New Mexico authors deliver.
Book Review
Reel People, Real Lives
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (Sixth Edition)
Movie nerds, the sixth edition of David Thomson’s seminal biographical dictionary will give you plenty to chew on and argue over.
V.23 No.13 | 3/27/2014
Book Review
Nurturing Nature
Falling Into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home
There are quiet sounds that often get lost in the business of our daily lives. Catherine Reid’s book Falling Into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home is a chronologically organized collection of personal essays meant to entice us to listen.
V.23 No.7 | 2/13/2014
Book Review
How It Begins
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
WWI started because the Emperor of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by a man who may have been part of a Serbian conspiracy, right? A new book shows that this explanation is so basic it’s just wrong.
