Displaying articles for: June 2010
An American Type
The final posthumous volume of autobiographical fiction from Henry Roth—seven decades after his legendary debut, Call It Sleep.
Read more...Lives Like Loaded Guns
The familial passions, jealousies, and deceit that swirled around the Belle of Amherst accentuate the rareness of her gifts.
Read more...The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A tale of love and intrigue set in the cultural cross-currents of 19th-century Nagasaki, from the author of Cloud Atlas.
Read more...Dark Harbor
The shadowy allure of New York City's once-vibrant port, and the scandal that inspired On the Waterfront.
Read more...A Fierce Radiance
A World War II effort to develop antibiotics—and the ethical complications that arise—are seen through the lens of a photographer's eye.
Read more...Trials of the Diaspora
A lawyer assembles a remarkably detailed history of English anti-Semitism, from the Middle Ages to the present.
Read more...Whirl
The pianist and composer returns to the keyboard with tunes both classic and fresh. Read more...
A Lost King
A long-out-of-print American classic that played the familiar melody of a family struggle in an exuberant new key.
Read more...The Subtle Body and The Great Oom
Two new books unfold the improbable journey of yoga from Hindu practice to global obsession.
Read more...Before Roe v. Wade
A journalist and a law professor collect documents that illuminate one of our era's most divisive court battles.
Read more...Two Women's Modern Odyssey
How two American women, Sylvia Beach and Margaret Anderson, helped row James Joyce’s Ulysses to shore.
Read more...Imperial Bedrooms
The author revisits the characters of his debut novel, Less Than Zero, in a Los Angeles haunted by dread.
Read more...The Passage
Justin Cronin's hefty new work of modern fantasy promises to transport the reader away from everyday cares—but can it deliver?
Read more...Cognitive Surplus
An internet guru's audacious explanation of how the web is turning free time into a shared global resource of inspiring dimensions.
Read more...Parisians
The acclaimed biographer of Balzac and Victor Hugo reveals the secret history of Paris, from Marie Antoinette to Mitterand.
Read more...Still Evolving: New Jazz Recordings
A critic's recent listening suggest reports of jazz's death have been greatly overstated. Read more...
Extra Lives
A dedicated gamer's reflections on the power, the potential, and the price of ever-multiplying virtual worlds. Read more...
Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism
A new book on the life of the controversial writer, teacher, and thinker is a labor of thwarted scholarly love. Read more...
On the Outskirts of Normal
A single mother's affecting memoir of adoption, small town life, and constructing moments of order amid life's chaos.
Read more...The Shallows
A cogent and thoroughly researched articulation of the growing fear that the Internet is driving us to dangerous distraction.
Read more...Strong Horses and Small States
Two recent books about conflict in the Middle East reveal the limitations of thinking simplistically about the region.
Read more...Witz
In this overstuffed, satirical tale, the last Jew alive becomes the object of the world's fascination, desires, and fears.
Read more...The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was the richest and most successful writer of his time, but his life—as this superlative biography reveals—was a mess.
Read more...Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia.
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.
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