Book Review

'The Eerie Silence,' Paul Davies

Strange life forms, artifacts of alien visits — why do we assume these are in other solar systems?

Michael Bowen
| Wednesday, May 12, 2010

'The Ask,' Sam Lipsyte

A 300-page rant about life’s emptiness, The Ask is clever and funny.

Nicholas Deshais
| Wednesday, May 5, 2010

'Ruben Trejo: Beyond Boundaries,' Edited by Ben Mitchell

Your travel guide to the MAC's Ruben Trejo exhibit

Carrie Scozzaro
| Wednesday, April 28, 2010

'Shell Games,' Craig Welch

Puget Sound, 3 am: Law enforcement does surveillance on smugglers. And the contraband? Clams.

Kevin Taylor
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010

'Mathilda Savitch,' Victor Lodato

The Get Lit! headliner crosses the gaps of gender and age

Michael Bowen
| Wednesday, April 14, 2010

'Wench,' Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Four black women join their men at a resort. The women don’t have any choice: It’s 1852, and they’re slaves.

Terri Schlichenmeyer
| Wednesday, April 7, 2010

'Crazy Like Us,' Ethan Watters

When it comes to cultural imperialism, the DSM-IV is just as bad as the golden arches

Daniel Walters
| Wednesday, March 31, 2010

'Curtains,' Tom Jokinen

What if you spend your career embalming corpses, and then everybody decides to get cremated?

Terri Schlichenmeyer
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010

'The Big Short,' Michael Lewis

Outing the masters of the universe who bet big on subprime mortgages

Ted S. McGregor Jr.
| Wednesday, March 17, 2010

'The Lost Books of the Odyssey,' Zachary Mason

Imagine The Odyssey squeezed through an M.C. Escher grinder — the resulting sausage doesn’t look heroic.

Michael Bowen
| Thursday, March 11, 2010
 
 
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