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Displaying articles for: April 2008
The Plague of Doves
A century-old storm of violence haunts the descendants -- white and Native American -- of those first caught in its vortex. Read more...
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction
A father maps his son?s harrowing ordeal as a methamphetamine addict. Read more...
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
The author argues that the creation of the WPA was one of the most enduring achievements of FDR's New Deal. Read more...
The Ten-Year Nap
Four friends wrestle with questions of motherhood, career, and identity in a novel from the author of The Position. Read more...
Dictation: A Quartet
Four short pieces from the author of Heir to the Glimmering World Read more...
Ida: A Sword Among Lions
A new biography of the anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells. Read more...
Animal's People
A crippled narrator brings to life the enormity of the Union Carbide disaster. Read more...
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century
The author of The Shield of Achilles takes on the myths and realities of the struggle to defeat terrorism. Read more...
Lavinia
The author of the Earthsea trilogy turns her imagination to a figure from Vergil's Aeneid. Read more...
The Second Plane September 11: Terror and Boredom
Fourteen short pieces from the novelist, essayist, and literary provocateur, on the lasting impact of September 11. Read more...
Windy City
The NPR host helms a comic voyage through the election season in a fictional Chicago. Read more...
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
How the real nature of human decision-making challenges some cherished fundamentals of economics. Read more...
Hollywood Crows
The veteran crime novelist, back on the beat in Tinseltown. Read more...
Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918
The dramatic true story behind the legendary "Lawrence of Arabia." Read more...
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles : Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
A reporter investigates the myth, reality, and complex history of that global phenomenon called "Chinese food." Read more...
The Drop Edge of Yonder
The new novel from an underground voice traces mixes an East-facing attitude with a distinctly Western setting. Read more...
Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution
An adventure reminiscent of Tom Jones follows the Revolutionary adventures of a young man who may -- or may not -- be the son of General Washington. Read more...
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
The author of Double Fold and The Mezzanine documents the pathway to a global tragedy. Read more...
Olive Kitteridge
A new collection of linked tales from the author of Amy and Isabelle maps the life of an imposing character. Read more...
Armageddon in Retrospect
A new collection of early and previously uncollected work from the celebrated writer. Read more...
The Stone Gods
The author of Written on the Body visits a future Earth, damaged by humanity. Read more...
Unaccustomed Earth
A new collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. 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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