• Books of The Times: Stefanie Syman’s Yoga History, ‘The Subtle Body’

    • July 29th, 2010
    Stefanie Syman’s book examines how yoga, the centuries-old spiritual discipline, became a fitness routine for American athletes, C.E.O.’s, movie stars and soccer moms.  Read More →

  • Multimedia E-Books, Adorned With Video Extras

    • July 29th, 2010
    Like DVDs, electronic books for the iPad are now being loaded with extras, including video clips that are integrated with text.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Anthony Doerr’s ‘Memory Wall,’ Fleeting Yesterdays

    • July 28th, 2010
    Anthony Doerr’s relentless fascination with memory — and with the ways memories fade or are destroyed — connects the six brooding stories in this collection.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Jane Ziegelman’s ‘97 Orchard’ Is a Culinary History

    • July 27th, 2010
    The Old World meets the new on the plates of immigrants on the Lower East Side in Jane Ziegelman’s “97 Orchard.”  Read More →

  • Books on Science: Let There Be Dimmers on Our Glowing Planet

    • July 27th, 2010
    Jane Brox’s narrative is in many ways a social history, told through man’s relationship to light.  Read More →

  • Books: Drama! Intrigue! A Mystery? No, Malaria’s Story

    • July 27th, 2010
    In her new book, Sonia Shah has spun a disease yarn that’s not a yawn.  Read More →

  • Alan Moore Celebrates a Real Person in ‘Unearthing’

    • July 27th, 2010
    The British comic-book writer Alan Moore pays tribute to a mentor in a new sound recording.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Super Sad True Love Story’

    • July 27th, 2010
    Gary Shteyngart’s new novel is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting satirical romance set in the near future, as the United States crumbles.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Super Sad True Love Story’

    • July 26th, 2010
    Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting satirical romance set in the near future, as the United States crumbles.  Read More →

  • Samuel Steward’s Life in ‘Secret Historian’

    • July 26th, 2010
    A new book about Samuel Steward, “Secret Historian” by Justin Spring, reveals a little-documented strand of gay life in the middle decades of the 20th century.  Read More →

  • Books of The Times: Andrew Morton’s Biography of Angelina Jolie

    • July 26th, 2010
    Angelina Jolie is something of a mystery, but Andrew Morton has attempted a biography anyway.  Read More →

  • Book Review – Father of the Rain – By Lily King

    • July 24th, 2010
    Lily King’s novel delves into the relationship between a charismatic but troubled man and his devoted daughter.  Read More →

  • Posing as Fitness

    • July 24th, 2010
    Two books on how yoga was packaged and promoted in different ways in America, depending on the audience and the era.  Read More →

  • Book Review – What Is Left the Daughter – By Howard Norman

    • July 24th, 2010
    Howard Norman’s crisp epistolary novel explores the illogic of love and the violent chaos left in its wake.  Read More →

  • Book Review – Termite Parade – By Joshua Mohr

    • July 24th, 2010
    The disorderly threesome in this novel are marginalized and angry, but for good reason.  Read More →
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