Displaying articles for: July 2010

The Terrorists

A new edition of the classic crime series from Sweden is a chance to revisit the exploits of Stockholm sleuth Martin Beck.

Read more...

Wait

The seventeenth and latest volume from one of America’s most esteemed poets explores realms of conscience and consciousness.

Read more...

Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

In his second mix tape of a memoir, Rob Sheffield looks to Duran Duran to guide him through his adolescence, and the 80s.

Read more...

Fur, Fortune, and Empire

A new history of the fur trade in America puts the trapper at the center of our nation’s emergence onto the world stage.

Read more...

Red Hook Road

When a young couple is killed, their parents are left to pick up the pieces -- and bridge the gap between them. Read more...

So Cold the River

Evil haunts a picturesque Indiana town in this ghostly thriller.

Read more...

Thieves of Manhattan

An ingenious literary fraud takes an unexpected turn in this blackly comic tale.

Read more...

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

advertisement
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Happy Money

“Money can’t buy happiness” is one of the oldest clichés around, but what if it’s all about how you use it? Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton give compelling advice on how to get the most pleasure out of your piggy bank.

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia. 

She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret.  A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.