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Displaying articles for: February 2008
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
The story of Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate becomes a tale of a pivotal moment in American moviemaking. Read more...
The Spa
Fay Weldon channels Boccaccio from inside the hot tub. Read more...
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
A journalist turned birder examines the connection between the human and avian soul. Read more...
Homecoming
The author of The Reader returns with the tale of a search for a lost father -- and a confrontation with a Nazi apologist's past. Read more...
Toga Tabloid: The Lives of the Caesars
Michael Dirda on the gripping, gossipy style of the Roman historian Suetonius. Read more...
Let 'Em Play!
Jon Sciescka's new Trucktown books take a stand: kids just want to have fun. Read more...
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970's Changed America
The heirs of Lenny Bruce and the comedy world they made. Read more...
The Modern Element
A celebrated critic oversees the landscape of contemporary verse. Read more...
Beautiful Children
A child disappears into the heart of a Las Vegas night. Read more...
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Katherine A. Powers on the brooding, dipsomaniac London of Patrick Hamilton. Read more...
Lincoln & The Court
An account of Lincoln's wartime struggles on the legal front. Read more...
A Short History of the American Stomach
An analysis of the culture of consumption -- literally speaking. Read more...
Sharp Teeth
A darkly comic fable about man's feral side -- set in verse. Read more...
Homo Politicus: The Strange and Barbaric Tribes of the Beltway
A veteran political reporter turns in Margaret Mead?style satire of legislators and lobbyists. Read more...
How the Dead Dream
The author of O Pure and Radiant Heart spins a modern fable of an eco-warrior's awakening. Read more...
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
The author of A Problem from Hell on a career in ambitious pursuit of peace. Read more...
His Illegal Self
The child of two fugitive activists goes on the run himself, in search of his parents. Read more...
The Reserve
Russell Banks stages a clash between haves and have-nots against an Adirondack background. Read more...
Flann O'Brien: The Complete Novels
Thomas De Pietro on the explosive imagination of an enigmatic Irish writer. Read more...
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
A historian tracks the cataclysmic effects of the American Civil War on the psyche of a nation. Read more...
Song Yet Sung
James McBride's novel tracks a young girl's escape from slavery, a decade before the Civil War. Read more...
Swimming in a Sea of Death
Journalist and author David Rieff writes a memoir -- and a memorial -- of his mother, Susan Sontag. Read more...
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.
Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.
Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.
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