Jim and George

Week after week, Jim Schutze is the only reason to read the Dallas Observer. (It's certainly not their theater reviews.) He regularly beats the hell out of the entire Dallas Morning News editorial board, plus all of the paper's city columnists.

Here's why: the political and scholarly grounds for objecting to the Bush presidential library, cogently and forcefully expressed.

February 7, 2007 7:53 PM | Permalink

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THE REVIEWS:

Pat Barker, Frankenstein, Cass Sunstein on the internet, Samuel Johnson, Thrillers, Denis Johnson, Alan Furst, Caryl Phillips, Richard Flanagan, George Saunders, Michael Harvey, Larry McMurtry, Harry Potter and more ...

ESSAY:

Big D between the sheets -- Dallas in fiction

ESSAY:

Reviewing the state of reviewing

ESSAY:

9/11 as a novel: Why?

ESSAY:

How can critics say the things they do? And why does anyone pay attention? It's the issue of authority.

The disappearing book pages:

Papers are cutting book coverage for little reason

Thrillers and Lists:

Noir favorites, who makes the cut and why