• Food Stuff: A New Anthology of Gastronomica Magazine

    • March 10th, 2010
    “The Gastronomica Reader” is an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: In ‘Still Life,’ Melissa Milgrom Dissects Taxidermy

    • March 9th, 2010
    Melissa Milgrom’s oddball first book is a pinballing tour through the poorly understood world of taxidermy.  Read More →

  • Pondering Good Faith in Publishing

    • March 8th, 2010
    Digital media raises the question of what part the traditional book publisher will play in the future.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Lives Scarred by Horrors of Korean War

    • March 8th, 2010
    With “The Surrendered,” Chang-rae Lee has written the most ambitious and compelling novel of his already impressive career.  Read More →

  • Soldiers’ Stories

    • March 5th, 2010
    A philosopher and psychoanalyst documents the stories of veterans and brings a dual perspective to the experience of war.  Read More →

  • Library Science

    • March 5th, 2010
    An exploration of the world of libraries and librarians, via a tour of eccentric characters and unlikely locations.  Read More →

  • Oh, Gods

    • March 5th, 2010
    In John Banville’s novel, a crew of Greek deities attends a mathematician’s deathbed.  Read More →

  • Turks, Kurds, Armenians: View From a Small Town

    • March 5th, 2010
    Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.  Read More →

  • Fallen Angels

    • March 5th, 2010
    In Danielle Trussoni’s rousing novel, a young nun is drawn into an ancient struggle against the Nephilim, hybrid offspring of humans and heavenly beings.  Read More →

  • Post-Soviet Yearning

    • March 5th, 2010
    Gina Ochsner’s first novel links the grim anomie of post-Soviet Russia to the delirium of magic realism.  Read More →

  • Target Practice

    • March 5th, 2010
    This darkly humorous satiric novel, a witty paean to white-collar loserdom, stars a deeply cynical academic fund-raiser fighting for his job.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Stealthy Insights Amid Short Phrases

    • March 5th, 2010
    A nearly career-spanning collection of compact and refined poetry by Kay Ryan, the poet laureate of the United States.  Read More →

  • Ultimate Bush Insider Lifts Veil on Presidency

    • March 4th, 2010
    Karl Rove says in his new memoir that President George W. Bush probably would not have invaded Iraq had he known there were no unconventional weapons there.  Read More →

  • Theodore Cross Dies at 86, a Champion of Civil Rights

    • March 4th, 2010
    Mr. Cross wrote on black empowerment, released two books of his photos of birds and once bid unsuccessfully for Harper & Row.  Read More →

  • Book on Spitzer’s Downfall Sets Off Angry Replies

    • March 4th, 2010
    Eliot Spitzer called an account by his former senior adviser “self-serving and largely inaccurate.”  Read More →
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