Bring Us Apart
Rick Perlstein?s sprawling, rollicking book argues that Richard Nixon is the explanation for everything ? or at least for the rise of the right and the decline of almost everything else.
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Difficult Truths
Honor Moore presents her father?s life and work, including his secrets.
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All the Difference
A biographical novel reconstructs Robert Frost?s life.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
After learning of a possibly fatal mutation lurking in her genes, Masha Gessen went in search of answers medical and moral.
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Man in a Black Turban
Patrick Cockburn?s life of the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
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The New New World
In this examination of power, Fareed Zakaria focuses not so much on the decline of America, but on the rise of China and India.
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Styron?s Choices
Essays by William Styron illuminate his fiction?s themes.
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On Poetry: Vendler?s Yeats
Helen Vendler?s study of W. B. Yeats demonstrates the flaws that come from trying to ensure the Right Poets are read the Right Way.
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Three Soldiers
In a novel set in World War II, a sergeant commits murder in front of his unit.
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Rough Justice
Louise Edrich?s new novel examines the lasting repercussions of a small-town lynching.
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The Mother Hood
Meg Wolitzer?s novel is about New York women who have stayed home too long.
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I Had a Funny Farm in Africa
The author?s childhood in Botswana was anything but conventional.
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The Fog of Love
Andrew Sean Greer?s novel is appropriately set in San Francisco?s Sunset district.
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Time of Her Life
A 75-year-old journal resurrects a girl and a city.
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Letters: This Is Your Brain on Evolution
To the Editor:.
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Letters: ?The Second Plane?
To the Editor:.
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Letters: South Korea?s Postwar
To the Editor:.
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Essay: 1958: The War of the Intellectuals
Fifty years ago, American critics worried about the collapsing distinction among highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow.
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Archive: Book Review Podcast
This week: Fareed Zakaria, author of ?The Post-American World?; the children?s book author Walter Dean Myers; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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Up Front
No conservative writer was tougher on Richard Nixon than George F. Will, the longtime columnist for The Washington Post and Newsweek.
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TBR: Inside the List
After a 10-year run, J. K. Rowling?s Harry Potter books have fallen off The Times?s best-seller list.
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Browsing Books: Editors? Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
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Browsing Books: Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.
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