Reviews

Hard Labor

by Tom Palaima / Posted on Mar 16, 2010 | No Comments

In Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers, Dick J. Reavis describes what life is like in a world most of us never [...]

by Steven G. Kellman / Posted on Mar 03, 2010 | No Comments

Though her husband, Melvyn Douglas, appeared in more than a hundred movies, earning two Oscars, and though she was one of the most popular [...]

by Emily DePrang / Posted on Feb 17, 2010 | No Comments

Crude World is a piece of firstclass reporting as well as an article of faith. Subtitled c, a more apt summation would be, “Oil [...]

by Steven G. Kellman / Posted on Dec 28, 2009 | No Comments

By his own account, Larry McMurtry is a lucky hack. Though he is one of only three Texans to have won the Pulitzer Prize [...]

by Spike Gillespie / Posted on Dec 28, 2009 | No Comments

I came to Mary Karr’s new memoir, Lit, lugging a bumpy suitcase full of emotions and expectations. Could she really have more to tell [...]