- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, May 22, 2012
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Alison Bechdel remembers Mama
The cartoonist looks at her first troubled relationship in Are You My Mother?
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jun 26, 1997
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The Belle of Blackhawk Island
These Parts--The little known poetry of Lorine Niedecker illuminates life in Wisconsin's lake country and the mind of a gifted woman.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 5, 2006
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The Bounce Remains the Same
Nik Cohn tried to influence New Orleans rap but all he got was this lousy nickname.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 15, 1998
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Sep 2, 2004
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Agendas Ahoy
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 6, 2006
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Divided We Live
Alexander Polikoff's memoir about his landmark public-housing case shows just how complex simple justice can be.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 6, 2008
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Girl, You'll Meet a Creature Soon
Sexual initiation lurks just below the surface in Lilli Carré's The Lagoon.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 3, 2013
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Gun Guys: Not quite lock, stock, and barrel
Dan Baum's latest could use more guys, less Baum.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 27, 1998
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 11, 2004
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The Pack Rat Poet
Albert Goldbarth's poetry teems with images from pop culture, history, literature, his Chicago childhood, and more.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jun 1, 2006
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Feminist, Examine Thyself
In her forthcoming book The Female Thing, lefty critic Laura Kipnis suggests that feminism look inward to explain its failures.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Mar 18, 1999
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Feb 17, 2005
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Wishful History
Mother Jones founder Adam Hochschild wants very badly for the legacy of the abolitionists to belong to the left.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 25, 1999
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, May 5, 2005
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Love, Death, and a Terrible Blow Job
Former chaplain John Green tackles the big themes in his debut young-adult novel.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 2, 2006
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That's Not Funny
Comedian Amy Guth turns it on to plug a dark debut about women in trouble.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 11, 1996
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Beyond Bond
A new breed of spy novel questions the very conventions of the spy novel.
