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Fiction: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
With The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, madcap Russian novelist Victor Pelevin delivers a mind-fuck of a metaphysical tale that centers around the spiritual journey and sexual exploits of a 2000-year...
The Alcoholic
Saying that authors and alcohol go hand in hand is an exercise in gross understatement. Literature has long attracted boozing, smoking, and drug-addicted masterminds — clichés of self-destructive b...
McDermott & McGough: An Experience of Amusing Chemistry: Photographs 1990-1890
Released to coincide with a retrospective of the same title at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, McDermott & McGough: An Experience of Amusing Chemistry is an eccentric catalogue that e...
Fiction: Pinocchio
Like the deceitful little marionette himself, the tale of Pinocchio has been severed from its original strings. Disney's cute-as-a-button poster boy and his talking cricket-cum-superego are an ines...
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
"You'll never make it in politics... You just don't know how to lie," Richard Nixon once told an adviser. During his presidential re-election bid in 1972, Nixon showed the world just how much he be...
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Stop Me If You've Heard This reads like a tall tale. In fact, it's what Jim Holt might call a "long joke," which, unlike a one-liner, could take an hour to tell. Holt strings the reader along, exte...
A Fraction of the Whole
When this year's Booker Prize shortlist was announced, some observers lamented the length of the six contenders, which included Steve Toltz's nearly 600-page debut, A Fraction of the Whole. But the...
Book Review
PictureBox is one of the most adventurous art publishers working today. Touted as a "Grammy Award-winning visual culture studio and publishing house" — after taking home the award for its 2005 cove...
Book Review
PictureBox is one of the most adventurous art publishers working today. Touted as a "Grammy Award-winning visual culture studio and publishing house" — after taking home the award for its 2005 cove...