by michaeld | Jun 25, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
By Climate Central Pantheon, $22.95, 214 pages Much of what we read or see on TV seems geared to make us feel fearful or guilty. Before reading Global Weirdness, both negative emotions sat alongside the idea of humankind destroying the world at...
by michaeld | Mar 10, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
Relearn How to See By Camille Paglia Pantheon, $30.00, 202 pages Each day we are bombarded by television, movies, advertisements, signs, magazines and art. When our brains can’t take any more, certain visual elements from our world lose their importance...
by Site Owner | Oct 15, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Nature, Outdoors & Animals
A Man and His Dog Beat the Odds By Martin Kihn Pantheon, 214 pages, $23.95 Help sometimes comes wrapped in unlikely packaging – like fur. Martin Kihn’s new endearing book details his struggles with alcohol and how his canine menace to society, a...
by Site Owner | Dec 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
By Charles Baxter, Pantheon, 416 pages Popular fiction is not necessarily about saying popular things. Gryphon explores the world from a slightly cock-eyed perspective, that of the eternal pessimist. Although there are some glimmers of hope, those glimmers are quickly...
by Site Owner | Nov 22, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels
by Craig Thompson Pantheon, $35.00, 672 pages Comparing religions is always fun. Habibi is a mix between love story and allegory. A slave girl adopts a boy in order to save his life. She eventually escapes, taking him with her into the desert where she begins telling...
