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Murder, she wrote

Interview: Tana French's deep crime novels
"It’s always more fun to write people who are really messed up or really vicious."

By: CLEA SIMON | August 05, 2008

Car talk

A close look at driving
For days post-late-merge, Vanderbilt had feelings of guilt and confusion.

By: AMY FINCH | August 04, 2008

Victim, not vixen

Sex, death, and the filthy rich
Florence Evelyn Nesbit was the most beautiful woman who ever lived.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | July 29, 2008

Tricky Dick

Philip K. Dick's second Library of America volume
The Philip K. Dick phenomenon might be petering out.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 28, 2008

Islander

Julie Hecht’s self-help
There’s still time to spend some of your summer with Julie Hecht.

By: JON GARELICK | July 22, 2008

Parlor salon

Spreading the words in Salem
Spreading the words in Salem

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | July 16, 2008

Grave matters

The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta
Entering the small back room at Gallery Kayafas, you feel you’ve been transported into the shadowy pages of a small, mysterious book.

By: CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | July 15, 2008

Bookman

Larry McMurtry’s life in the trade
Larry McMurtry, the best I can tell, remains the only man to have both won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and written an Academy Award–winning screenplay.

By: GEORGE KIMBALL | July 08, 2008

Repression illustrated

People’s history in graphic format
Graphic novels are an acquired taste.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | July 01, 2008

Master builders

Books on, and by, architects
A good architectural monograph is more than just a big colorful book with too-good-to-be-true photos; it’s a window into the heart and mind of the architect it profiles.

By: DAVID EISEN | June 24, 2008

Confessions of an editor

DeWitt Henry's candid new collection of essays meditates on manhood
There’s a quiet courage in these essays, and a revelatory sense of the continuing challenge of pressing on.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 20, 2008

Priorities, rediscovered

In her first book, actress Debra Winger focuses on home, not Hollywood
Instead of checking into rehab, the actress spoke her mind.

By: JENNY HALPER | June 19, 2008

Frank Bidart’s ambivalent appetite

The poet probes human opposites in his latest collection
Frank Bidart adores the savage Catullan paradox.

By: SVEN BIRKERTS | June 17, 2008

Small presses

Big ideas, and a match made in heaven
Rose Metal Press focuses on unique, non-traditional literary forms such as flash fiction, prose poetry, or novels-in-verse.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | June 11, 2008

Mike Edison walks alone

Funhouse
On his death bed, Mike Edison probably won’t lament that he didn’t do this or he didn’t go there.

By: AMY FINCH | June 10, 2008

Spy games

Alan Furst’s “Night Soldiers” novels
The gray afternoon, the loveless assignation, the endless bureaucracy.

By: CLEA SIMON | June 10, 2008

The great American (office) novel

Thirteen fictional perspectives on your 9-5
They are coming regularly now, like buses, like bulletins — the great office novels of the 21st century.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 06, 2008

Booked up

Several shelves’ worth of summer reads
Summertime, and the reading is easy.

By: BARBARA HOFFERT | June 09, 2008

Masterful mysteries

Rendell and Nabb transcend genre
Not in the Flesh is Ruth Rendell’s 21st Inspector Wexford novel since she and the character debuted in 1964.

By: CHARLES TAYLOR | June 10, 2008

The thief who reinvented himself as a Hollywood celebrity
The new guy showed up as a guest at the Lakeside Golf Club in 1932, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, he won the club championship the first time he entered it.

By: GEORGE KIMBALL | June 10, 2008

Flying high

Interview: Jonathan Miles’s airport novel
There’s nothing new about the complaint as literature, says author Jonathan Miles.

By: CLEA SIMON | June 02, 2008

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