Books

What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Joyce Carol Oates' new novel is a full-throated critique of the late Baby-boom culture of celebrity, social-climbing, psycho-speak, "cybercesspoolspace," and "heaven scent" spirituality.

Fahrenheit L.A. Times

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media


Jon Robin Baitz

So I read yesterday that the L.A. Times has finally done in the book review section. Sad, short sighted, and just another bad omen for the print world.

Amazon Kindle Review: It'll Make You Smarter and Richer, Kind Of, But Not Really

Dave Burdick | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business


Dave Burdick

I could hand this to my friends or my parents and feel confident that they could read with it -- it might be easier to use than an iPod (but, importantly, it's not easier to use than a book).

Hitler's Doctor is Living in the Bronx: How 1940 Came to Be

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment


Jay Neugeboren

So grateful was Hitler to his Jewish childhood physician that in 1940 he intervened to provide Dr. Bloch and his family with visas that enabled them to escape Austria and the Holocaust.

Hitler's Physician

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment


Steven G. Kellman

A few historians and psychoanalysts have suggested that that Hitler's physician was himself responsible in part for Adolf's violent obsession with Jews.

Lunchtime for Burroughs

Jan Herman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment


Jan Herman

Half a century since its publication, William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch will be examined more closely by scholars, critics and other riffraff in Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays.

Book Review: Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth

Andrew Frisicano | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media


Andrew Frisicano

Take note: Sonic Youth's story is largely unglamorous. And rightfully so. While excising rock from its blues roots, SY also managed to create a new paradigm of the rock star.

Preview: Wild, Upcoming Novel By NYT Veteran Lampoons Judy Miller and Other NYTers

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media


Greg Mitchell

Sure to get media tongues a-wagging when published on July 31 is the new John Darnton novel, Black and White and Dead All Over.

White House Ignored CIA On Guantanamo Detainees' Innocence, New Book Says

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics


A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in 2002 that up to a third of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake, but Wh...

Dick Cheney: Environmental Hazard

Bruce Kluger & David Slavin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home


Bruce Kluger & David Slavin

By now, we've all read about the latest environmental wedgie that Vice President Dick Cheney has given to the world's climate. If you somehow missed t...

Salman Rushdie Wins (Yet Another) Literary Award

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment


LONDON — Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize's best-known winner. Now he is officially the best. Rushdie's 1981 novel "Midnight's Child...

Jeffrey Sachs Wants To Change The Economy And Save The World

Grist | Amanda Griscom Little | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green


Jeffrey Sachs -- the renowned economist who devised a grand plan in 2005 to rid the world of poverty -- is now focused on an even broader ambition: s...

Con Games: Code Friedman

Michael Conniff | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media


Michael Conniff

Something has happened to Thomas Friedman: he has started to believe his own bullsh*t. A fatal flaw has crept into Friedman's reporting that borders on journalistic megalomania.

Black and White and Dead All Over: New York Times Veteran Pens Newspaper Murder Mystery

Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media


Have you picked out your beach reading material yet? If you work at The New York Times, you might want to get your hands on an advance copy of Black a...

Artificial Dissemination

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Reading The Kingmakers evokes feelings not dissimilar to watching Mike Gravel during debates: you sympathize with him, but can't help concluding that he's a few bricks short of a load.

Freedom Banned

Richard LaGravenese | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media


Richard LaGravenese

In Perry, Indiana, the School Board has suspended a teacher for allowing her students to read The Freedom Writers Diary. How can it be that they did not see the value of the lessons to be learned?

Political-Ish Summer Reads

Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics


Eric Kuhn

With the long primary season over and the presidential race gearing up, political wonks might need a break from the "real world" this summer. Escapism via a novel is one solution.

The Rights of Marriage, California Style

Tom Gregory | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living


Tom Gregory

Love, West Hollywood highlights the human side of an inequality that is finally unraveling. We'll see what happens in California in the next six months -- the whole world is watching us.

Happiness Tip Of The Day: Read Something For Fun

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....

Salman Rushdie Knighted

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment


LONDON — Author Salman Rushdie slipped into Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to receive a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II that had angered many...

Slideshow: See Who Attended Arianna's "Right Is Wrong" Book Party

Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living


A large crowd turned out on Monday, June 23rd to toast Arianna's latest book Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Con...

Jezebel's "Fine Lines" Feature Gets Picked Up By HarperCollins In First Non-Gawker Gawker Book Deal

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media


If you are a woman of certain age — that age being the age of growing up with books like Summer of Fear and The Girl With The Silver Eyes and De...

M*A*S*H-ing The Death Penalty

Elaine Petrocelli | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment


Elaine Petrocelli

People come to an author event for Mike Farrell to hear some pleasant nostalgia about M*A*S*H's Dr. B.J. Hunnicutt. They get that - but they also leave with a well-reasoned earful about why we need to end capital punishment.

Why Smart Brains Make Stupid Decisions

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living


Alvaro Fernandez

It happens. Often. But why? To answer that, we secured an interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior.

SLIDESHOW: "Camp Camp" Takes Us Back To Summers Gone By

Roger Bennett | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living


Roger Bennett

"Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies" is the sequel to "Bar Mitzvah Disco," picking up where that book left off — to head ba...


 

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