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Review of Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB

Jaime Lowe's Life and Death of ODB
Sometimes it takes an outsider to understand the inside.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | January 06, 2009

Review: Barry Unsworth's Land of Marvels

Unsworth and oil in Mesopotamia
Unsworth and oil in Mesopotamia

By: CLEA SIMON | January 06, 2009

The year ahead in books

A hefty reading season, from Jayne Anne Phillips and T.C. Boyle to Pablo Neruda
The subject of Lincoln is like catnip to publishers (and readers), but the only things missing from our winter list are actual cat books.

By: BARBARA HOFFERT | December 30, 2008

Year in Books: Word plays

Of werewolves and wastelands
Here, listed alphabetically by author, are 10 of the best works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that the Phoenix wrote about in 2008.

By: JON GARELICK | December 22, 2008

Review: Collection of Jack Spicer poems

Strong spirits
Spicer believed that words are magic, that they have the power to "do" good and harm to people.

By: WILLIAM CORBETT | December 19, 2008

Interview: Mia Kirshner

Going global
Best known for her role as The L Word 's bookish drama fiend Jenny Schecter, Mia Kirshner is very clear about one thing: to her, acting is a "day job."

By: SHAULA CLARK | December 09, 2008

Review: Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers

As Luck Would Have It
As Luck Would Have It

By: KARA HADGE | December 05, 2008

Perverse books for Christmas

Gift books for every (perverse) taste
We put out a call to our contributors to suggest appropriate holiday gift books and what do we get back?

By: PHOENIX STAFF | December 05, 2008

Best buy comic books

The world in comics
This season, there are two best buys when it comes to bang for your comic-book buck.

By: MIKE MILIARD | December 02, 2008

Interview: Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky

Two historians pen a bodice ripper
Long-time friends Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky didn't set out to write Blindspot, a novel complete with murder, scandal, slave stealing, and some very hot sex.

By: CLEA SIMON | December 02, 2008

Swedish mysteries back on U.S. shelves

The Martin Beck mysteries
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Martin Beck mysteries are back in a fourth American printing.

By: WILLIAM CORBETT | December 02, 2008

Review: A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison's colonial America
Toni Morrison's colonial America

By: RICHARD BECK | November 24, 2008

Never Say Smile

Annie Leibovitz highlights her career
Could there be anyone cooler to have for a photography teacher than Annie Leibovitz?

By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN | November 19, 2008

Excerpt: Carolyn Chute's latest novel

One week only: an exclusive excerpt from the acclaimed author's new novel
In the cold parlor of the St. Onge farmhouse, deep in the old collapsing couch, sort of wrapped in the couch, in its waves of whimpering springs and hills of upholstery of frazzled blue nap, are 15-year-old Brianna and Gordon.

By: CAROLYN CHUTE | November 14, 2008