Articles about books

Harry Potter---The good, the bad, the bizarre, the silly.
Bijan Parsia
A quick reaction to "Harry Potter IV" and some attendant phenomena.
11 July 2000

Rescuing the Age of Chivalry
Zoe Mulford
A review of Patricia McKillip's The Tower At Stony Wood, with associated reflections on chivalric romance, its limitations, and how McKillip reinvents it.
3 September 2000

Kenneth T. Jackson's Crabgrass Frontier, or How did America become Suburbanized?
Kendall Clark
How did American turn into a vast suburban wasteland?
1 February 2000

Your Private Sky
Michael Stutz
Your Private Sky, a book about Buckminster Fuller's art of design science.
30 June 2000

Juan Gonzalez: Harvest of Empire
Niel Bornstein
Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy Now!, has a new book.
6 March 2000

Henry David Thoreau Is The Man
Niel Bornstein
Thoreau pretty much didn't write anything bad.
29 February 2000

Cuba Handbook
Kendall Clark
Planning a trip to Cuba?
24 February 2000

Walter Mosley, Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Kendall Clark
Walter Mosely is a genius of popular fiction. That's the easy part. He's also a perceptive social critic with a Marxist bent.
23 February 2000

The Mysteries of ISBN Revealed
Kendall Clark
Ever wondered what the hell those numbers are on the back of your new book?
17 February 2000

SciFi Author A.E. Van Vogt Dead at 87
Niel Bornstein
Another good one's gone.
4 February 2000

Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing
Kendall Clark
It's a book about nothing and everything.
29 January 2000

The McCourt Family Business
Niel Bornstein
11 January 2000