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Displaying articles for: January 2008
Swimming in a Sea of Death
Journalist and author David Rieff writes a memoir -- and a memorial -- of his mother, Susan Sontag. Read more...
The Senator's Wife
The gulf between lives shadows a story of a friendship and two uncertain marriages. Read more...
The Pirate's Dilemma
A music magazine editor and DJ argues for the social benefit of illegal downloads. Read more...
Life Class
The celebrated author of the Regeneration Trilogy returns to the trauma of World War I, on and off the battlefield. Read more...
Day
The author of Paradise tracks the life of an RAF sergeant in the wake of World War Two. Read more...
Gods Behaving Badly
The Olympian deities find themselves down and out in London. Read more...
To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918
A unsparing portrait of one of the 20th century's most dreadful military clashes. Read more...
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: Tales of the First Amendment
The Pulitzer-winning author argues for the vital importance of the First Amendment. Read more...
Children's Books: The Envelope, Please
Lisa Von Drasek on this year's prizes. Read more...
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma offers his take on diet, nutrition, and health in the 21st century. Read more...
Someone Knows My Name
An African girl's 18th-century odyssey, into (and out of) bondage in the New World. Read more...
William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories
A new collection of early fiction from a writer focused on the heart. Read more...
Riding Toward Everywhere
The award-winning writer hops the rails for a boxcar-framed view of America. Read more...
Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer
A killer turns journalist -- and covers the story of his own crimes. Read more...
The Fall of the House of Bush
The author of House of Bush, House of Saud turns in another critical look at the current administration. Read more...
Darkmans
The past and present collide in a tale haunted by a sinister presence. Read more...
The Spies Come Out of the Cold: New Espionage Fiction
Spy novels for the 21st century. Read more...
Words on the Way: Winter Reading for 2008
A preview of coming attractions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Read more...
A More Perfect Constitution
A political scientist offers a program for renovating America's legal foundation. Read more...
Love Falls
A Tuscan idyll provides the stage for a teenage girl's entry into the mysteries of adulthood. Read more...
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
So, you think you know who invented the telephone? Read more...
Diary of a Bad Year
The new novel from the Nobel laureate balances traditional narrative and radical innovation. Read more...
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
A memoir of research and risk taking amid a group of Chicago drug dealers. Read more...
Laura Warholic, or, The Sexual Intellectual
The first novel in nearly two decades from a celebrated literary innovator follows a magazine writer's peculiar obsessions. Read more...
People of the Book
A centuries-old Haggadah provides the linchpin for Geraldine Brooks's sweeping new novel. Read more...
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.
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.
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.
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