Reader's Diary

Displaying articles for: December 2008

December 29, 2008

Reader's Diary: Warriors, Holy and Otherwise

By Brooke Allen

Portraits of evangelical collegians, Napoleon and his marshals, American ruins, and more. Read more...

December 08, 2008

The Year in Reading: A Conversation (Part Three)

BROOKE ALLEN, MICHAEL ANDERSON, DANIEL MENAKER, JAMES PARKER, KATHERINE A. POWERS, and TESS TAYLOR

Six passionate readers on a year's worth of books and ideas (Part Three of Three) Read more...

December 08, 2008

The Year in Reading: A Conversation (Part One)

BROOKE ALLEN, MICHAEL ANDERSON, DANIEL MENAKER, JAMES PARKER, KATHERINE A. POWERS, and TESS TAYLOR
A Roundtable Conversation

Six passionate readers on a year's worth of books and ideas. Read more...

December 08, 2008

The Year in Reading: A Conversation (Part Two)

BROOKE ALLEN, MICHAEL ANDERSON, DANIEL MENAKER, JAMES PARKER, KATHERINE A. POWERS, and TESS TAYLOR
A Roundtable Conversation

Six passionate readers on a year's worth of books and ideas (Part two of three) Read more...

About the Columnist
Brooke Allen is the author of Twentieth-Century Attitudes; Artistic License; and Moral Minority. She is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The New Criterion, The New Leader, The Hudson Review, and The Nation, among others. She was named a finalist for the 2007 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.
Daybook

June 20: Today is World Refugee Day, as designated by the United Nations in 2001. According to the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the modern refugee problem should not be attributed to wars and despots but to a civilization that…

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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.