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Hard times

A former junkie looks back at tough days in Lowell
"You just shit yourself — every muscle, every joint aches. Your entire body cries for heroin. Just one bag of heroin, you know that's all you need, and you'll feel better."

By: MIKE MILIARD | June 08, 2009

Giving good gimmick

Granta at 30
To sustain a literary magazine over decades it pays to have a gimmick.

By: WILLIAM CORBETT | June 08, 2009

Review: Bad Cop

Life as one of NYPD's not-so-finest
Title a book Bad Cop and brain-basher types like Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta spring to mind.

By: AMY FINCH | June 05, 2009

Full shelf

The best in summer reading
Hot town, summer in the city. . . . or in the country. . . . or at the beach. Wherever you are, don't forget your books.

By: BARBARA HOFFERT | June 08, 2009

Death watch

Michael Connelly's newspaper elegy
Michael Connelly's newspaper elegy

By: CHARLES TAYLOR | May 19, 2009

River song

A lyrical turn in the South
Tim Gautreaux writes of a South that never changes. Dense, humid, with a fecundity that is more than a match for any human development, his South is largely a no man's land where the trees close off the sky, their roots rise "from the soppy mud like stalagmites," and the calm is broken only by the "stout windings of water moccasins."

By: CLEA SIMON | May 13, 2009

Good dirt

Davy Rothbart of Found magazine reads from Requiem on Saturday night at Precinct in Union Square
"Part of the mystery, when you find a love letter that was torn into bits: was it torn up by the person who received it, or did the person that wrote it tear it up before they even gave it to them?"

By: MIKE MILIARD | May 06, 2009

Bad girls

Mary Gaitskill carries on
People tend to make much of what they think of as Mary Gaitskill's fictional realm, a place of sexual transgression, of violence, violation, rape, and sado-masochism, and her female characters, the violated, the used, the users.

By: DANA KLETTER | April 28, 2009

Bloody good

Gore, pop, and dogs take the page
It's the ultimate high-concept book idea. A Mad-Libs smash-up of social satire and "ultraviolent zombie mayhem," designed from the title inward.

By: CLEA SIMON | April 22, 2009

Review: The Rocket that Fell to Earth

Roger Clemens's fall and rise and fall
On July 18, 1992, in a celebrated post-game meltdown at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, the pitcher formerly known as the Rocket expressed his displeasure over a column I had written.

By: GEORGE KIMBALL | April 01, 2009

Interview: Ulrich Boser

Going after the Gardner thieves
As we reach the 19th anniversary of the theft of 13 priceless art objects from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, there's been a renewed effort to identify the thieves and retrieve the Gardner treasures.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | March 24, 2009

Interview: Leanne Shapton

Object lessons
There are many end-of-relationship rituals.

By: SHARON STEEL | March 24, 2009

Solved?

Ulrich Boser takes on the Gardner heist
In the wee hours of March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up the two security guards, and stole 13 pieces of art.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | March 18, 2009

Whodunit?

Art thief Myles Connor talks
Myles Connor: Mayflower descendant, Mensa member, master of disguise, black belt in karate, self-styled "President of Rock 'n' Roll." And probably the most notorious art thief in the history of the United States.

By: MIKE MILIARD | March 18, 2009

Mixed book bag

Reads to thaw out with
It looks like a good season run-up to beach reads, with new fiction from Denis Johnson and Aleksandar Hemon, biographies of Gabriel García Márquez and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John Updike's final collection of poetry.

By: BARBARA HOFFERT | March 16, 2009

Review: The Kindly Ones

Inside the Reich
Those put off by the soft-pedaling of the SS in the movie adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader might be wary of Jonathan Littell's memoir of fictional war criminal Maximilien Aue.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 11, 2009

Noir film

Jerry Berndt and Eugene Richards: The inescapable romance of decay
Fatalism and depression are consequences of life, not goals. Cheer up and don't let this dust-to-dust business slow you down.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | March 03, 2009

Review: In the Devil's Territory by Kyle Minor

Kyle Minor's book of secrets
In Kyle Minor's dark debut collection of stories, personal secrets always exact a terrible price.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | February 25, 2009

Nazis, Manet, and romance

Telling Fiction from Fact
During World War II, Nazi plunderers focused their greedy eyes on Paris and began looting the city's artwork — operating according to Hitler's plan to open a massive, self-aggrandizing museum in Germany.

By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN | February 19, 2009

Interview: G. Xavier Robillard

Of politics, capes, and fame-whoring
There just aren't many career options for a washed-up superhero these days.

By: MARY PHILLIPS-SANDY | February 18, 2009

Interview: Eugene Mirman

Slow learner
Much like the stand-up that has made him an alt-comedy mainstay, Eugene Mirman's first book, The Will to Whatevs (Harper Perennial), is a freewheeling mix of bemused ironies and trenchantly silly non-sequiturs.

By: ROB TURBOVSKY | February 17, 2009

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