Among the Believers Among the Believers
Paul Elie's The Life You Save May Be Your Own is a deft and ambitious four-part biography interweaving the lives of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy and Flannery O'Conn...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Vince Passaro
The Tragedy of William O. Douglas The Tragedy of William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a judicial record-setter.
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David J. Garrow
Jump at de Sun Jump at de Sun
Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in N...
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook
Explaining ‘The Magician’ Explaining ‘The Magician’
Thomas Mann's popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks family business. It is in decline.
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Mystery in Milan Mystery in Milan
On March 16, 1972, readers in Italy and throughout the publishing world were shocked by the day's headlines.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin
The Scourge of Baltimore The Scourge of Baltimore
As truth-tellers, journalists remain the undocumented aliens of the knowledge industry, operating in an off-the-books epistemological economy apart from philosophers and scient...
Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
A Bombmaker of Conscience A Bombmaker of Conscience
We are all fascinated by the lives of the powerful and famous, and in the last part of the twentieth century Andrei Sakharov became one of Russia's most famous. He burst onto the ...
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
The Great Societizer The Great Societizer
Reading Robert Caro to learn about Lyndon Johnson is like going to an elaborate buffet in order to get the four basic food groups; they both give you what you need along with much...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner
Melville at Sea Melville at Sea
In 1851, when the 32-year-old Herman Melville published his masterpiece Moby-Dick, he was already known as a man who'd consorted with cannibals. His first book, Typee: A Peep at P...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
Publishers Caught in a Web Publishers Caught in a Web
Jason Epstein's Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future is the third memoir of a major American life in book publishing to reach print in less than two years. It is at ...
Jan 26, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gayle Feldman