Hans L. Trefousse, Historian and Author, Dies at 88
By MARGALIT FOX
Professor Trefousse was a specialist in Civil War and Reconstruction-era history who taught at Brooklyn College for almost 50 years.
The enTourage eDGe, shown at a trade show in Las Vegas last month, combines an e-book with several other functions.
Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.
Sarah Blake has coaxed forth a book that hits hard and pushes buttons expertly.
The historian Tony Judt, who has written nine books and scores of essays, has lost the ability to move nearly every muscle in his body.
“Union Atlantic” is a lumpy, disappointing book.
A new group of soldier-writers explore the futility of war — but wars that they for the most part support.
Professor Trefousse was a specialist in Civil War and Reconstruction-era history who taught at Brooklyn College for almost 50 years.
There is a developing showdown with scholars over the first German publication of “Mein Kampf” since the end of World War II.
Mr. Martínez was an Argentine writer whose fiction mingled journalistic and novelistic techniques.
While the Justice Department did not explicitly urge a rejection of the deal, its opposition on copyright, class action and antitrust grounds is a setback for Google.
Jenny Sanford’s account of Gov. Mark Sanford’s headline-making extramarital adventure is a surprisingly energetic exemplar of the “little did I know” genre.
“The Privileges” is excessively cryptic, but the story is so invitingly told that it’s much easier to be drawn in than turned off.
Louise Erdrich’s new novel is a portrait of an “iconic” marriage on its way to dissolution, and it appears to be seeded with deliberate allusions to her own marriage with the writer Michael Dorris.
The characters in Amy Bloom’s erotically charged, linked stories struggle with love and its loss.
The life of Warren Beatty, a man as hungry for artistic control as he was for women.
This slender mystery novel from Roberto Bolaño presents a surreal vision of prewar Paris.
Don DeLillo explores the radical manipulation of time in this novel, which brings an Iraq war planner, his daughter and a filmmaker together at a house in the desert.
Poems that shun trickery and flirt with both beauty and boredom.
Clare Clark’s tale of a woman sent to Louisiana to marry a colonist she’s never met is told in the spirit of a 19th-century novel.
This history examines the moral, religious, artistic and political struggles gripping France before and after the Dreyfus Affair.
An appreciation of Little Richard, one of rock ’n’ roll’s originators.
Joseph Stiglitz has harsh words for President Obama’s approach to the economic crisis.
How the church has figured in the lives of black women battling racism and sexism, from the days of slavery to the present.
A clever murder and a dose of Big Pharma intrigue sever this novel’s protagonist’s ties to his former life.
Rebecca Skloot untangles the ethical issues in the case of a woman whose cancer cells have been the basis for a vast amount of research.
English became a secret path to personal freedom for the author of this memoir, who escaped the confines of the Soviet Union at age 24.
A survey of the state of American research universities.
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To fight terrorism effectively, a new book says, governments must understand its economics — and cut off its revenue streams.
In a couple of months, a person will be able to buy a beer legally in New Albany, Miss., William Faulkner’s birthplace, for the first time in more than 50 years.
The Vancouver writer talks about artificial snow, Generation X and luge lessons.
Hoping for any unpublished works, yellowing letters or random notes to complete an artist’s biography.
Students and teachers weigh in with passionate and personal picks for their favorite titles and authors to read and teach.
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