Displaying articles for: September 2012

Salman Rushdie

A master storyteller's favorite memoirs.

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Susan Straight

Books about fierce mothers and their children from the novelist's shelves.

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Katie Roiphe

The author of In Praise of Messy Lives picks three favorites.

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Lee Child

Three thrillers by guys named Joe picked by a master of the genre.

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Madeline Miller

The author of The Song of Achilles picks three favorites that have lingered in her imagination.

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May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Little Green

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a  LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.