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Guest Books

Displaying articles for: May 2010

May 28, 2010

John Feinstein

Human struggles, on the playing field and in the grim games of war.

May 17, 2010

Jonathan Alter

Books that illuminate turning points in our nation's history.

May 10, 2010

Belinda Carlisle

Three works of escape, inspiration, and forgotten genius.

May 3, 2010

Emily Giffin

The novelist chooses three books to fall in love with.

Daybook

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Previously in Daybook

In the Margin

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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The Long List

Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now

Big Brother

This emotionally taut novel of family dynamics and the limits of sacrifice presents a woman on the verge of giving up everything -- including her marriage -- to help her impassive brother fight his obesity.

Note to Self

A newly fired 20-something becomes an assistant to a filmmaker chronicling people’s failed ambitions in Alina Simone's sharp meditation on internet addiction, celebrity worship, and digital narcissism.

The New York Review Abroad

This new collection of some of the best of overseas reportage includes articles from Joan Didion, Tim Judah and Susan Sontag, with topics ranging from impromptu theater in conflict-ridden Sarajevo to a gravediggers’ strike in Liverpool.