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05/21/2008 12:08 AM
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Books of The Times: More Glory: Talking Baseball, From the ?50s and ?60s
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In the second volume of his oral history of baseball, the former Major League commissioner Fay Vincent records interviews with stars from the sport?s golden years.
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05/21/2008 02:30 AM
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Bertelsmann Appoints Outsider to Head Random House
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After weeks of speculation, the German media conglomerate appointed Markus Dohle, the head of its printing unit, to run the division.
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05/21/2008 12:30 AM
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The Pour: Good Wine Reading With Mellow Aftertaste
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For wine lovers, a raft of absorbing new books will help ease the economic blues.
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05/21/2008 12:00 AM
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Theater Review | 'The Great American All-Star Traveling War Machine': Once More Unto the Breach (It?s a Rambo World Out There)
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This revue of songs, sketches and speeches is based on the first issue of Lapham?s Quarterly, a journal edited by Lewis H. Lapham.
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05/20/2008 11:44 AM
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Books of The Times: When He Tried to Vanish, His Sister Wouldn?t Let Him
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Marie Brenner has written a book that explores the difficult algebra of familial love and the possibility of its renewal in the face of impending loss.
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05/20/2008 03:25 AM
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Books of The Times: Fore! A Writer Tees Off and a Turtle Is Airborne
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Even for a writer as endearing as Carl Hiaasen, this old-guy sports memoir is an iffy proposition.
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05/20/2008 03:15 AM
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Remembering Fleming, Ian Fleming
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Ian Fleming?s workaday approach to writing is among the revelations drawing crowds of James Bond lovers to an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London.
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05/18/2008 01:05 AM
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The Ashes
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Joseph O?Neill?s ?Netherland? is the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we?ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.
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05/16/2008 05:29 PM
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Once Upon Many Times
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A novelist builds a bridge to the Arab soul, using the tradition of stories with a frame tale.
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05/17/2008 01:18 AM
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Profile in Courage
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Ted Sorensen, John Kennedy?s speechwriter and close aide, battled blindness to write a memoir.
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05/16/2008 03:25 PM
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The Long Shadow
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Ronald Reagan put an indelible stamp on his time.
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05/16/2008 11:44 AM
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Costs of Living
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Jeffrey Sachs explores economic solutions to the problems of overpopulation.
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05/16/2008 11:57 AM
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Jane Austen Meets Nancy Drew
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In this homage to ?Northanger Abbey,? a woman digs for family secrets at the home of her mystery-writer godmother.
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05/16/2008 05:38 PM
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That Stegner Fellow
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A biography of the writer who chronicled the American West.
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05/15/2008 11:07 PM
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Letter From Trinidad: An Island Scorned
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Asked about V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadians often mention not his books, but their belief that he has jilted the country.
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05/16/2008 10:15 AM
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Crime: Death in Venice
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In Donna Leon?s latest mystery, the body of a golden-haired Gypsy child is fished out of a canal. Also reviewed: new crime fiction from Duane Swierczynski, Stephen Anable and Elaine Viets.
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05/16/2008 05:55 PM
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Archive: Book Review Podcast
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This week: Joseph O?Neill, the author of ?Netherland?; Christine Muhlke on gray-market luxury goods; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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05/14/2008 10:43 PM
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Newly Released
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May?s list of new books comes weighted with accolades, from within publishing and without. Reviews of works by Inger Ash Wolfe, Aleksandar Hemon, Chris Knopf, Stephenie Meyer, James Meek and Elizabeth George.
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05/16/2008 06:29 PM
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Sunday Serial | The Funny Pages: Mrs. Corbett?s Request
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Chapter 3: You can find out a lot about a recently dead man on the Internet if you are willing to put in some time, even if you are philosophically opposed to the ease of the endeavor.
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