A riveting account of the flawed leadership, bad luck and virulent personalities that led to the 2006 murder of an entire Iraqi family by American soldiers.
Health care and bank accounts loom large in Lionel Shriver’s multifaceted 10th novel, in which plans, relationships and families are changed by illness.
A science writer addresses the question: What makes a sage?
New collections of classic comics, including “Peanuts,” “Bloom County” and “Popeye.”
As death draws near, Chang-rae Lee’s heroine, a Korean War orphan who now lives in New York, sets off for Europe to look for her wayward son.
With an assist from others’ quotations, David Shields argues that our deep need for reality is not being met by the old and crumbling models of literature.
The boldness and the folly of the explorers who sought the Northwest Passage.
This “character driven” account of two centuries of religious combat is the best recent history of the Crusades.
A journalist’s adventures in the world of taxidermy, where she observes the art of incising, skinning, sculpturing and reassembling.
Vietcong guerrillas capture a female reporter in this vivid Vietnam War novel.
Novels by Dominick Dunne, Sadie Jones, Melanie Benjamin, Brian Hart and Elizabeth Kostova.
A documentary approach to Anne Frank’s life and diary; and a novel about Jewish refugee children during World War II.
An entertaining, graphic-novel style account of Amelia Earhart’s stay in Newfoundland before she crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.
Mr. Stites opened up new territory for historians with a landmark work on the Russian women’s movement.
The Italian writer Paolo Giordano has drawn a mesmerizing portrait of a young man and woman whose injured natures draw them together and inevitably pull them apart.
“The Gastronomica Reader” is an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine.
Digital media raises the question of what part the traditional book publisher will play in the future.
A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
The skill with which Ron Rash’s tales are constructed is apparent in this new book of stories.
Work has become central to most people’s self-conception. Why does fiction have so little to say about it?
Mystery novels by Jo Nesbo, Cara Black, Simon Lelic and Robert Goddard.
Featuring Jim Frederick, the author of “Black Hearts,” on an Iraqi tragedy; and Luc Sante explaining David Shields’s mind-bending manifesto, “Reality Hunger.”
March 12, 2010
March 12, 2010
March 10, 2010
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and its celebrated director arrive in America, each trailing big expectations.
At Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, there are workshops, support, even a publishing imprint known for nurturing poets.
In 1874, the author Mark Twain and the Dark Blues baseball team both arrived.
Stephen Crane, the author of “The Red Badge of Courage,” said he was “cut out to be a professional baseball player.”
Seth Grahame-Smith’s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 4.
As Newsweek’s Jerusalem bureau chief from 2001 to 2004, Joshua Hammer “covered Iraq extensively, embedding with United States troops as the insurgency spiraled out of control.”
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