National Book News
Book Review Podcast: Isabel Wilkerson
Featuring Isabel Wilkerson on her history of the Great Migration, "The Warmth of Other Suns"; and Sean Wilentz on his book "Bob Dylan in America." ...
Source: NYT > Books | 3 Sep 2010 | 2:17 pm
Book Review Podcast: Isabel Wilkerson
Featuring Isabel Wilkerson on her history of the Great Migration, "The Warmth of Other Suns"; and Sean Wilentz on his book "Bob Dylan in America." ...
Source: NYT > Books | 3 Sep 2010 | 2:14 pm
Archive: Book Review Podcast
Featuring Isabel Wilkerson on her history of the Great Migration, “The Warmth of Other Suns”; and Sean Wilentz on his book “Bob Dylan in America.” ...
Source: NYT > Books | 3 Sep 2010 | 1:24 pm
Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook
After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 3 Sep 2010 | 12:30 pm
Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87
Mr. Bourjaily’s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 3 Sep 2010 | 12:05 pm
Graphic Books Best-Sellers: Throwing the Book at Them
A manga clan whose family pet may violate the terms of their lease, and an exhibition on comic-book characters who have found themselves in court. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 3 Sep 2010 | 9:16 am
Peace and War
Like Jonathan Franzen’s previous novel, “The Corrections,” this is a masterly portrait of a nuclear family in turmoil, with a majestic sweep that gathers every sociocultural morsel of our shared millennial life ...
Source: NYT > Books | 3 Sep 2010 | 2:30 am
Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget
A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 3 Sep 2010 | 12:41 am
Books of The Times: The Lives Gained by Fleeing Jim Crow
In “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson documents the sweeping 55-year-long migration of black Americans from the South. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 2 Sep 2010 | 7:22 pm
Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery
Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” sheds little light on his political vision or on why he took Britain to war against Iraq. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 2 Sep 2010 | 11:36 am
The Updated Manual of Style
The 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style went on sale yesterday. In a nod to the past, the University of Chicago Press is offering a free e-book of the very first edition, published in 1906. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 1 Sep 2010 | 1:58 pm
Books of The Times: Young Man Seeks Poetry in World War II’s Ruins
A British author links his grandfather’s World War II bombing missions to the war poetry of the time. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 1 Sep 2010 | 12:30 am
Books of The Times: Preppily Perplexed? A New Guidebook
“True Prep,” Lisa Birnbach’s successor to “The Official Preppy Handbook,” addresses the adult world of funerals and second marriages and the post-1980 world of cellphones, the Internet and synthetic ...
Source: NYT > Books | 31 Aug 2010 | 10:47 pm
At Bookstore, Even Nonbuyers Regret Its End
With more people choosing to buy books online, a Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side prepared to close early next year. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 31 Aug 2010 | 4:54 pm
The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues
Complete contents of the Book Review since 1997. ...
Source: NYT > Books | 31 Aug 2010 | 3:36 pm