Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsThe Pocket Essential Alan Moore by Lance Parkin
This is an update of a 2001 printing of this book, a comprehensive guide to master graphic novelist Alan Moore. The book’s approach is, roughly, to tel... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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The Merry Muses of Caledonia by Robert Burns
The Merry Muses of Caledonia is Robert Burns’ collected ‘racy’ poems. But not exactly, because some of them are simply poems or songs Burns... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Book ReviewsDon't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorised Story Of Public Enemy by Russell Myrie
This is a fairly standard biography that’s lifted above the norm by having a fascinating subject. Public Enemy are one of the greatest hip hop acts ever, and... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Book ReviewsThe Unknown Knowns by Jeffrey Rotter
Everybody says they know an eccentric, but most of these supposed oddballs don’t really rate. The lead character of this book, Jim Rath, is the kind of... Read more »| 01 May 2009 -
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The Corner by David Simon and Ed Burns
After his first book, Homicide, a Year on the Killing Streets looked at the lives of a squad of detectives in Baltimore, David Simon chose to take a differen... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
Guy Delisle previously wrote and illustrated the non-fiction graphic novels Shenzhen and Pyongyang, which were about his time working as an animation supervi... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009
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An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald by Chris Dolan
Ethel MacDonald (1909-1960) was a girl from Motherwell who became an anarchist, went to Spain to witness the anarchist movement’s extraordinary influen... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
Book ReviewsDigital Evolution: What Can Gaming Teach Us About Where Life Came From And Where It's Heading?
In answer to the question posed by the event's title, 'not much' was the general consensus, at this well attended, thought-provoking discussion. 'But just yo... Read more »| 13 Feb 2009 -
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Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
Last year Polygon revived interest in the work of the Scottish poet and folklorist Hamish Henderson by publishing a fantastic biography by Timothy Neat. They... Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
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The Bird Room
The Bird Room is a contemporary, fast-paced, blackly comic story focusing on the lives of and interactions between four characters (Will, William, Alice and ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
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Pentti and Deathgirl
Pentti and Deathgirl are two separate narratives, making this book less of a graphic novel than two graphic short stories. The first focuses on the titular P... Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
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Laid Bare
After twenty years in the sex industry, New Zealander Rachel Francis has penned a detailed account of her experiences. What sets her apart from the ‘ha... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
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The American Dream
On his quest to experience the American dream from a variety of starting points, writer and comedian Harmon Leon goes undercover, and in doing so comes up ag... Read more »| 22 Jan 2009 -
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One Moonlit Night
The actual title is Un Nos Ola Leuad – this is a book that was originally written in Welsh. It’s a gem too – one of those stories that’s told from the perspe... Read more »| 22 Jan 2009 -
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
This mammoth biography takes in 80 plus years of the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as setting that life inside some extremely eventful Latin Americ... Read more »| 11 Dec 2008