by Site Owner | Aug 10, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Romance
By Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $26.00, 337 pages “The city of Rome appeared around us, casually splendid, eternally assured of itself, happy to take our money and pose for a picture, but in the end needing nothing and no one. Eventually I realized that the...
by Site Owner | Aug 7, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By J.P. Manchette, New York Review Books, $12.95, 112 pages “Whichever way you go, there is a long hill to climb before you get out of Bléville.” In this abrupt and brutal crime novel, J.P. Manchette (1942-1995), the French author credited with reviving the genre,...
by michaeld | Jun 13, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Health, Fitness & Dieting
Interesting perspective By: Benjamin A. Rifkin, Michael J. Ackerman and Judith Folkenberg Abrams, $16.95, 344 pages The new, illustrated history of human anatomy, Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age offers a...