Tag Archives: Nonfiction

A personal view of the best and worst books in 2005.

A novelist ventures into the world of non-fiction in a not always successful effort to analyze why significant facts disappear in the fog generated by the mainstream media.

After reading Henry Petroski's words, I'm looking at the steel and wood with new eyes. This is not a 'natural' way of storing volumes.

A suggestion for a Festivus Feat of Strength -- tearing this book into little pieces or impaling it on the Festivus pole.

mental_floss magazine extends its quirky and entertaining approach to fascinating facts and information to book form and "forbidden knowledge."

Bangkokitis is an extreme form of the culture shock that many tourists experience in foreign lands, magnified by the discordant meeting of modernity and tradition.

A harrowing memoir of racism, religion and dysfunction in a midwestern Christian family.

Offbeat reflections on serious living.

A writer uses her resources and talents to intimately detail and explore personal loss.

How does the first anthology of British blogging stand up against a comparable newspaper collection? Rather well.