Book Digest: March 26, 2007
Edward Hopper; A Miracle of Catfish; Mishima’s Sword; Charisma; The Book of Air and Shadows; It Can Happen Here; Almost Human; The Cigarette Century; Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow; East Fifth Bliss; You Don’t Love Me Yet
Book Digest
A collection of 274 issues
Book Digest: March 19, 2007
The People Look Like Flowers at Last; Other People’s Property; Alexis de Tocqueville; The Audacity of Hope; Uncouth Nation; The God of Animals; Hurricanes and Carnivals; Giacomo Casanova; Gardens in Art; Back on the Fire; The Kitchen Sink
Book Digest: March 12, 2007
Lonely Avenue; Marc Chagall; Thomas Hardy; Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life; A Fighter’s Heart; American Spy; The Father of All Things; Mitz; Man Gone Down; The Winter of Frankie Machine; Leni Riefenstahl
Book Digest: February 26, 2007
Swink (Everybody Has It Figured Out But You); Cowboy in Caracas; Fieldwork; A Bee in the Mouth; Debating Race; The Collected Poems (1956-1998); Mississippi Sissy; Their Dogs Came With Them; The Cross and Other Jewish Stories; The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog; The Goat Bridge
Book Digest: February 12, 2007
Still Water Saints; The Fabric of Night; Self Storage; Reading Legitamation Crisis in Tehran; United States vs. George Bush; A Good War is Hard to Find; African Psycho; Giraffes; The Devil Is a Gentleman; Medical Apartheid; Born in Flames; Jasper Johns
Book Digest: February 5, 2007
Jim Brown; Kockroach; The River of Lost Footsteps; Peter Dexter; The Gardens of the Dead; Epitaph for a Tramp; Fame Junkies; Toussaint L’Oueverture; Finn
Book Digest: January 29, 2007
“The Observer’s Guides,” a so very British and forgotten publishing phenomenon: compact, concise, and courteous notebooks on nearly everything.
Book Digest: January 22, 2007
New and Selected Poems 2006; The Wicked Son; Paula Spencer; House of Meetings; Eero Saarinen; American Fascists; The Gospel of Food; Lost City Radio; Overture; Dancing to “Almendra”; American Bloomsbury
Book Digest: January 8, 2007
Prime Green; Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name; Returning to Earth; The Oldways Table; Tales of the Out & the Gone; Francesca Woodman; Twelve Days; A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Book Digest: December 18, 2006
Year-end lists may be meaningless—but they’re also irresistible. Robert Birnbaum gives into temptation with his favorite books from 2006.