BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS

Books About Addiction (page 2)

FICTION

Released: March 1, 2005

QUEEN COCAINE

by Nuria Amat, translated by Peter Bush

"In all, a revelatory tale that reads like the testimony of a shell-shocked survivor."

A disjointed, dreamlike (and prizewinning) tale by Barcelona journalist Amat descends into the coca farms of Bahia Negra, Colombia. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: June 1, 1998

SEX, DRUGS, ROCK 'N' ROLL: STORIES TO END THE CENTURY

edited by Sarah Lefanu

"If, with the rock band Dr. Hook, you can sing of the '60s that "I was stone and I missed it," here's a perfectly legal, nonparanoid way to recapture days that have disappeared over the hills like wild horses."

LeFanu's new anthology (Obsession, 1995—co-edited by Stephen Hayward) features 16 tales energized by the upbeat power of the '60s preoccupation with death, dancing, and sex. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: April 1, 1995

THE ACID HOUSE

by Irvine Welsh

"Welsh often settles for shock value, sleazy sex, and heroin chic, but he's actually a better writer than many who've been here before, especially Burroughs and his epigones."

A collection of 21 stories and one novella—Welsh's second book, but his first published stateside—that will inevitably be compared to last year's Booker winner, James Kelman. Read full book review >