Performance Anxiety
Excepting A-Rod, why should anyone care about a new bio of the controversial slugger?
Robert Birnbaum
George Pelecanos
(Photo by Robert Birnbaum) One of the dependable touchstones of publishing is that every few years that rickety engine will cough out a book by maestro George Pelecanos (and a few others). Funnily enough, Pelecanos, author of 17 novels and editor of a super crime story collection (The Best American
Desperate Housewife
Oprah fave Jane Hamilton’s new potboiler is a wicked, fun ride.
An Introduction
Despite something approximating my best efforts, many venues for book information continue to propagate the silly notion that there is such a thing as summer reading. This is such a widespread contagion—most in evidence by the locust-like droning of lists purporting to contain summer books—that if there
Best Western
Paulette Jiles turns the western on its head.
Dirty Big Secret
English writer Philip Kerr, who has authored 19 novels (including some children’s books) and found himself on Granta’s second “Best of Young British Novelists” list in 1993 (along with Louis de Bernières, A.L. Kennedy, Will Self, and Kazuo Ishiguro), may be most well known for what has
The Artist Accused
A dark chapter in photographer Philippe Halsman’s life.
The Renegades
Don’t saddle T. Jefferson Parker with the stigma of genre writing.
The Life You Can Save
Peter Singer, Princeton mentor and philosopher, presents a convincing argument for how all of us can make a difference in the lives of others without reducing the quality of our own.
Joseph O'Connor
Our man in Boston talks with novelist Joseph O'Connor about writing historical fiction, the role of the Irish in the American Civil War, and the trouble of trilogies.