- May 17, 2004
- How We Got Shafted at the Revolution
New York deserves a more prominent place in America’s creation saga. Two new books will help.
- May 20, 2002
- Halberstam's Heroes
Firehouse
By David Halberstam
- December 6, 2004
- The Believer
Marilynne Robinson’s demanding novel confines characters— and readers—to Christian doctrine.
- November 24, 2003
- Daddy Warhol
Steven Watson’s excellent new history of Warhol in the sixties shows him as a highly permissive father in a Manhattan avant-garde sitcom.
- April 4, 2005
- Terror Comes to Tiny Town
Jonathan Safran Foer channels the horror of 9/11 through the eyes of a child.
- May 30, 2005
- Creepshow
Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black is spooky, smart, and deep.
- January 25, 1999
- "Sonny Liston Was A Friend of Mine"
- December 9, 2002
- Furious George
Bob Woodward’s Bush at War gets the trees (Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell) right. But the forest—the war on terror at home and abroad—is as dark as ever.
- September 8, 2002
- Helen of Boy
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides's new Homer-meets-hermaphrodite epic, bounces casually over oceans, and continents, and eras, and genders -- at times, it's a rough ride.
- April 9, 2001
- Smoked Signals
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
By Louise Erdrich.
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