Critical Mass

1.) Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta, Rod Stodghill, Amistad 2.) Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy, Andrew Cockburn, Scribner 3.) Nation of Secrets: How Rampant Secrecy Threatens Democracy and the

This is sixth in our series about New Orleans writers. It's hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. NBCC member Ken

I've been reading Jonathan Lethem, and this passage on “tugboating” from “Motherless Brooklyn” caught my eye. It's something critics (often accused of Tourette's-like behavior) and writers, never mind Lethem's Tourettian

This is the fifth in our series about New Orleans writers. It's hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. We tracked

This is the fourth in our series about New Orleans writers. It's hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. NBCC finalist

This is the third in our series about New Orleans writers. It's hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. Romanian-born New

This is the second in our series about New Orleans writers. It's hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. Julie Smith,