Book Digest: October 9, 2006
Cable News Confidential; The War of the World; The One From the Other; Reading Like a Writer; What Is the What; An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories; The Blind Side
Robert Birnbaum
Book Digest: October 2, 2006
In the Studio; The Best of I.F. Stone; Why Arendt Matters; Man and Camel; Open City; The Joke’s Over; The Uncomfortable Dead
Sean Wilentz
Historian Sean Wilentz talks about social studies versus history, purple prose in founding-father biographies, and how "states rights" started trumping slavery in Jefferson Davis's memoirs.
Book Digest: September 25, 2006
The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820; A Life in Secrets; All Governments Lie; Conservatize Me; The Secret Powers of Naming; Concerning the Spiritual in Art; Best American Essays 2006
Book Digest: September 18, 2006
High 5ive; Best New American Voices 2007; Mixed; Nicole Kidman; Peace Mom; Watching the World Change; Johnny Cash, The Biography
Book Digest: September 11, 2006
Miss Kansas City; Creationists; New Stories From the South; William Christenberry; Red the Fiend; A Factual History of America; The Other Side of the Bridge
Book Digest: September 4, 2006
The Lost; All Aunt Hagar’s Children; Thomas Paine; The Punishment of Virtue; Ploughshares; The Quotable Jefferson; The Greatest Story Ever Sold; Glimmer Train No. 60; The Believer No. 36; Things As They Are; Death Do Us Part
Sebastian Junger
Reporting a civil war in Africa sounds tough, but try investigating a 40-year-old crime in America's quietest suburb. A chat with journalist Sebastian Junger about his new book on the Boston Strangler.
Book Digest: August 21, 2006
The Prince of the Marshes; Richard Hofstadter; Picasso & Lump; Jeans; Siddhartha; An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter; Mission Rejected; Smonk; The Dissident
Book Digest: August 14, 2006
Get a Life; Oath Betrayed; The Medici Giraffe; The Poet Slave of Cuba; War Made Easy; Magic for Beginners; Another Green World; Mockingbird; To Kill a Mockingbird