• Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87

    • September 3rd, 2010
    Mr. Bourjaily’s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget

    • September 3rd, 2010
    A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: The Man Who Refused to Forget

    • September 2nd, 2010
    A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery

    • September 1st, 2010
    Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” sheds little light on his political vision or on why he took Britain to war against Iraq.  Read More →

  • Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook

    • September 1st, 2010
    After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: The Lives Gained by Fleeing Jim Crow

    • August 31st, 2010
    In “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson documents the sweeping 55-year-long migration of black Americans from the South.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Young Man Seeks Poetry in World War II’s Ruins

    • August 31st, 2010
    A British author links his grandfather’s World War II bombing missions to the war poetry of the time.  Read More →

  • At Bookstore, Even Nonbuyers Regret Its End

    • August 31st, 2010
    With more people choosing to buy books online, a Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side prepared to close early next year.  Read More →

  • At Bookstore, Even Non-Buyers Regret Its End

    • August 31st, 2010
    With more people choosing to buy books online, a Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side prepared to close early next year.  Read More →

  • Revolutionary Road

    • August 30th, 2010
    Seeing the march of American history in the story of the Boston Post Road, a colonial highway turned modern-day ribbon of retail.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Preppily Perplexed? A New Guidebook

    • August 29th, 2010
    “True Prep,” Lisa Birnbach’s successor to “The Official Preppy Handbook,” addresses the adult world of funerals and second marriages and the post-1980 world of cellphones, the Internet and synthetic fleece.  Read More →

  • A Novel Is All the Rage Even Before It Is Sold

    • August 28th, 2010
    Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Freedom,” is causing plenty of talk, even before it hits the shelves.  Read More →

  • Where It Hurts

    • August 27th, 2010
    An expansive mix of medical reportage, history and memoir explores our relationship to pain.  Read More →

  • The Language of Exile

    • August 27th, 2010
    Milan Kundera’s essays illuminate music, painting and writing in the context of what he calls a “post-art” era.  Read More →

  • Den of Antiquities

    • August 27th, 2010
    Craig Childs explores archaeology’s ethical debates and the costs of discovering lost history.  Read More →
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