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The New Nukespeak 6 Oct 2011 | 06:50 am
In today’s New York Times, Dwight Garner laments the recent updating of two classic advice texts—Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and Emily Post’s Etiquette. Garner argues that ...
Have You Held HABIBI? 5 Oct 2011 | 02:00 am
To stand in a bookstore, holding Craig Thompson’s Habibi (Pantheon, $35), to open its chestnut-colored hardcover and turn each of its first pages, is to be swept inexorably into an epic narrative of r...
Best Books for Wall Street Protesters 3 Oct 2011 | 11:36 am
If you are part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, or if you are supporting the Wall Street protesters by taking water and food to them, note that these books may also help keep up protest energy: A...
Peter Van Buren’s We Meant Well, a Book Robert Altman Might Have Loved 3 Oct 2011 | 10:27 am
From time to time when you are a book editor, as I have been, even with literary agents acting as intermediaries between you and authors, you will receive a nonfiction manuscript by a first-time write...
Was This Fall’s Best Big Novel Actually Published in the Summer? On John Sayles’s A Moment in the Sun 1 Oct 2011 | 02:56 am
As a great reading public, we’re all in a rush to be onto the next thing. Not usually the next big thing either. The next quick thing. One downside to Kindles and Nooks and iPads is that they give a s...
Garfield and Harrison Biographies: Presidential Heat from Surprising Historical Corners 30 Sep 2011 | 05:49 am
For narrative nonfiction during this recession? Good times. (Think Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, and Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff.) And for under-cel...
Wangari Maathai–A Remembrance, From A Distance 28 Sep 2011 | 07:34 am
In my small kit bag of personal anecdotes, there’s one about Wangari Maathai, about her help to me, although we never met. In honor of her passing two days ago at the age of 71, I’ll tell that little ...
The Most Surprising Book of the Year 26 Sep 2011 | 11:48 pm
Amazon publishes a “Best Books of the Year” list well before each year is over. It’s called “Best Books of the Year So Far.” (The top book on that list at the moment is Mitchell Zuckoff’s Lost in Shan...
New American Fiction 2011–Does Size Matter? 23 Sep 2011 | 07:14 am
To this day, to this very moment, printed books are still compiled of folios, a practice you might have thought gone obsolete after Shakespeare’s day. Not so! Folios are sheets of paper folded in half...
Ron Suskind’s Confidence Men, Jacqueline Kennedy’s Historic Conversations – Rare, Uncanned Histories 22 Sep 2011 | 05:22 am
According to Ron Suskind’s new history of economic policy and White House politics during the first years of the Obama administration, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a P...
