The Los Angeles Times:
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming ... Dark Age?
The War on Stink
On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America. By Melissa Ludtke
Money:
How To Lose $900,000: David Denby's American Sucker
New York Times Book Review:
Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music, by John Alderman.
Washington Post:
Company Men (Biographies of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan.)
The Old New Thing (Three not-so-great books on the Internet)
Salon:
Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler
The Undertaking, by Thomas Lynch
The Beast in the Nursery by Adam Phillips
How Proust Can Change Your Life, by Alain de Botton
Nerve:
Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity, by Joshua Gamson