The First Lady of Song The First Lady of Song
Billie Holiday wasn't just adored by her fans but by her friends and colleagues as well.
Jun 9, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Christgau
Invisible Republic Invisible Republic
Siddhartha Deb's second novel follows an Indian journalist on an elusive search for meaning.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Shashi Tharoor
Hail Mary Hail Mary
A new biography of one of the Enlightment's most remarkable thinkers.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Kindred Spirits Kindred Spirits
Michael Cunningham delivers a historical/noir/sci-fi novel haunted by 9/11 and Walt Whitman.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis
Revolutionary Suicide Revolutionary Suicide
Eritrea betrayed.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice
An Acquired Taste An Acquired Taste
The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley
Zippie World! Zippie World!
A look at Thomas Friedman's flattened world.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / George Scialabba
Cosmopolis Cosmopolis
Home for centuries to Christians, Muslims and Jews, Salonica was a cosmopolitan world where people of various cultures and religions lived side by side.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Adam LeBor
Twist and Shout Twist and Shout
What Michael Lind believes Abraham Lincoln believed.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / James M. McPherson