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Displaying articles for: November 2007
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
The artist as a (not so) wild and crazy young man. Read more...
Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventures of a Front-Line Employee
The business world, seen from the other side of the cash register. Read more...
The Ghost
A new political thriller takes aim at a real-world target. Read more...
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies
Bite-sized tales from three purveyors of "short-short" fiction. Read more...
Carlisle vs. Army
A legendary football game becomes a touchstone for
pre-WWI America.
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Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
A memoir from the reporter who covered every NASA launch. Read more...
Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man"
An eminent politcal observer on one of the original sparks of the democratic revolution. Read more...
Mouth Wide Open
Essays from a culinary maverick, with a taste for experiment. Read more...
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Own Narratives of Emancipation
Two extraordinary narratives by men who escaped into freedom, published for the first time. Read more...
On God: An Uncommon Conversation
James Parker on the late author's ambitious finale: a book-length conversation about the divine. Read more...
Flying to America: 48 More Stories
A new volume offers previously uncollected work from the celebrated fabulist. Read more...
Touch and Go: A Memoir
The famous oral historian turns the microphone on himself. Read more...
Ethel's Turn
Two new biographies explore a Broadway legend's life, onstage and off. Read more...
Gomorrah
A crusading Italian journalist traces the web of corruption that ensnares a city. Read more...
Axis
The ambitious trilogy about an alien intervention in human history continues with the settling of a new world. Read more...
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
The eminent historian and writer surveys the lasting impact of the Founders' successful innovations -- and their failures. Read more...
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Did Cezanne unlock the secrets of the cerebrum -- a full century ahead of scientists? Read more...
Chatter
A marriage comes under pressure in the age of media overload, in this darkly comic novel. Read more...
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
The mind behind Sherlock Holmes, in correspondence with "Mam" and others. Read more...
Last Night at the Lobster
A chain-restaurant kitchen boils over with comedy and drama in this ensemble piece. Read more...
Pure Goldish
Alexandra Mullen rides the turtle's back to Terry Pratchett's unclassifiable literary creation, Discworld.
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A Free Life
The award-winning author of Waiting traces an immigrant family's American odyssey. Read more...
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.
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.
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.
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