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Displaying articles for: February 2009
Fool
Can Shakespeare survive the antics of a 21st-century jester? Read more...
The Unforgiving Minute
A young Army officer's life, in training and in action. Read more...
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
A life spent "between the house and the chicken yard" nurtured a writer whose short fiction plumbed the depths of the soul. Read more...
The Accordionist's Son
The story of a Basque activist is wrapped in a mediation on translation's pitfalls. Read more...
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
A new history argues that British Empire's sun rose not over the colonies, but the Continent. Read more...
Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
A new biography sheds light on a little-known civil rights pioneer. Read more...
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age
The high spirits and low lights of a celebrated generation. Read more...
The Vagrants
An uncompromising, haunting vision of life in China in the late 1970s. Read more...
Visible Songs: Jazz Icons on DVD
Jazz giants in performance, at the height of their powers. Read more...
The Women
The genius of Taliesin had a genius for romantic torment as well. Read more...
Picturing Langston Hughes
Three new illustrated volumes for children bring an exuberant visuality to the verse of an American master. Read more...
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
The surprisingly revealing look at the writer's nine-to-five persona. Read more...
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
The voice of contemporary Pakistan emerges as a polyphonic symphony in this new collection. Read more...
The Speculator: Four Anthologies
Fresh gatherings of science fiction and fantasy tales prove the short story is alive and well. Read more...
The Associate
A young lawyer, a diabolical conspiracy -- the tools of a past master of the page-turner. Read more...
A. Lincoln: A Biography
The obsessive, paradoxical genius of the most revered American president. Read more...
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: My Adventures in Life and Food
A food writer's memoir of a globe-trotting life. Read more...
Cutting for Stone
Moral medicine. Read more...
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
The correspondence between two great poets yields a portrait of a friendship and a treasure trove of language. Read more...
The Good Parents
She's leaving home. 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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