Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
This week: David Henry Sterry collects stories from sex workers, Andrew Blauner compiles the stories of brothers, and Zack Lynch recounts tales from the frontiers of neurotechnology; new memoirs from Buzz Aldrin, Jan Lancaster, Quinn Cummings and Czech ecobiologist Vojtech Novotny; a look at athletes Lance Armstrong and Michelle Wie; and fiction from Carl Reiner, Kaye Dacus, Wayne D. Overholser and Rosemary Rogers. More
Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/22/2009 06/22/2009
Four Daily News sports reporters turn in the definitive story of Roger Clemens and drugs in baseball; Miles Kington presents a lively epistolary meta-nonfiction collection about dying; Sam Pocker catches retailers gone wild; and smallpox eradicator D.A. Henderson chronicles his showdown with the disease. Plus: fiction from Jane Porter, Sarah Prineas's second Magic Thief novel, and Alex Flinn's Gossip Girl makeover of "Sleeping Beauty."
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/15/2009 06/15/2009
On the Web: Robert Greenfield on a counterculture couple, Steve Nicholls on the history of U.S. nature, Paula E. Morton on the man who made the National Enquirer, William Zinsser on a life of writing well, Mike Torrey photographs Machu Picchu, and Stacey Levine returns with another strange story collection. Plus: new picture books from Sarah Verroken, Jason Deeble, and the duo of Laura Kraus Melmed & Henri Sorensen.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/8/2009 06/08/2009
This week: Doug Stanton tells the story of mounted U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, C. David Heymann dishes on the post-JFK affair of Jackie and Bobby, Evan I. Schwartz chronicles L. Frank Baum, Reverend Jen divulges two years of "sexperiments," Marie Celeste Arranas shares life lessons, and Lawrence Block indulges his love of running (and racewalking). Plus: trips through Johannesburg and the former Soviet Union, a flaky fictional mom-com, and everything pickleable.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/1/2009 06/01/2009
On the Web: Eric Sanderson's epic natural history of Manhattan, the memoir of a U.S. Marine helping train the Iraqi Army, Andrew Ross reporting on worldwide labor conditions in harsh decline, and WSJ reporter Kate Kelly catches the last gasps of Bear Stearns. Plus: Michael Sorkin walks, Alan Cheuse travels, Jane and Michael Stern eat out, and Sabrina McCormick clears the (carcinogenic) air.
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/25/2009 05/25/2009
This week on the Web: Robert Kiyosaki explores the new reality of real estate, Arianne Cohen gives the tall their own book, Patrick Allitt recovers the history of conservatism, Tasha Blaine explores nannyhood, Janice Lieberman helps smart shoppers find husbands, and Jane Green returns with her latest beach novel. Plus: Toni Morrison compiles essays on writing from Orhan Pamuk, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer and others.
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/18/2009 05/18/2009
This week's Web-only: celebrity chef John DeLucie dishes, disabled psychotherapist Sean Stephenson inspires, Daily Telegraph reporter Oliver Poole returns to Iraq, liberal strategist James Carville rages on, professor Jennifer Scanlon reconsiders Helen Gurley Brown's feminist legacy, and Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi gives you more information on the Cthulu than you require. Plus: essential collections of dog breeds, American poetry and turn-of-the-20th century dissection photography.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/11/2009 05/11/2009
On the Web this week: journalist Eric Boehlert charts the political blogosphere, Uyghur activist-politician Rebiya Kadeer fights for her China-controlled homeland, the secrets of Lisa Rinna's resilience, and new fiction from James Patterson, Maxine Paetro and Cristina Henríquez. Plus: PBS's Elizabeth Brackett gives the crash pub a good name with her in-depth Blagojevich investigation.
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