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Rooted

Jhumpa Lahiri tends her garden
Jhumpa Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize with her first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies .

By: ED SIEGEL | April 22, 2008

Tragic comic

Howard Zinn’s American portrait
Growing up in the 1930s, Howard Zinn pored over the pixilated pages of comic books.

By: MIKE MILIARD | April 16, 2008

War of words

Is reading good for you?
Freelance writers are often the recipient of unusual opportunities.

By: CHARLES TAYLOR | April 15, 2008

Book mad

Interview: Keith Gessen’s young literary life
He speaks quickly, with a friendly, nervous laugh, in cadences that sound like a cross between Ira Glass and Martin Scorsese.

By: JON GARELICK | April 15, 2008

Happy days

The Geography of Bliss
He eats rotten shark in Iceland, gets fried on Moroccan hash in the Netherlands, and graciously accepts a 14-inch gift penis in Bhutan.

By: AMY FINCH | April 08, 2008

Told right

Sloane Crosley gets her cake
One thing is certain in publishing: your chances of survival in the industry are much better if you have a good sense of humor.

By: SHARON STEEL | April 07, 2008

Brave new world

Germaine Greer’s Shakespeares
Regardless of what’s in her name, biographies of Ms. Hathaway are scarcer than hens’ teeth, and no wonder: we know even less about her than we do about her husband.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | April 02, 2008

Scare tactics

When comics were too crude for school
A steady ripple of anti-comics sentiment was crystallized in the early ’50s.

By: DOUGLAS WOLK | March 24, 2008

Spurred by fans’ ’roid rage, new books focus on our national pastime’s dark side. Meet baseball’s seven deadly sins.
Even as the sun rises on the new Major League Baseball season, skies are cloudy for the game we love.

By: MIKE MILIARD | March 19, 2008

The power of love

A respected music critic contemplates Celine Dion and has a crisis of conscience
Carl Wilson’s recent entry into Continuum’s esteemed 33 1/3 series — a series of books by critics and musicians devoted to canonical pop albums — is framed by an irresistible concept.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | March 19, 2008

Werewolf’s song

Toby Barlow’s verse novel has teeth
The story, the emotion, and the beauty and precision of Barlow’s language can convince you that new writers who want to experiment are not all zombies risen from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

By: CHARLES TAYLOR | March 18, 2008

Pants afire

Fakeries and the faking fakers who fake them
The ratio of falsehood to truth in the universe has not, of course, altered one jot since the world began.

By: JAMES PARKER | March 13, 2008

General Tso’s way

The path of a Chinese foodie
Behind every dish lies a story, and behind a cuisine, well, there may be a book.

By: CLEA SIMON | March 12, 2008

Making book

Spring Arts Preview: Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
This spring brings exciting story collections from established authors and hot newcomers.

By: BARBARA HOFFERT | March 10, 2008

Same to you, fella

Find your vituperative voice
Snarking back at self-righteous, passive-aggressive, thick-skulled dimwits isn’t as easy as you might think.

By: SHARON STEEL | March 05, 2008

Strange fruit

Peter Chapman examines the rise of the banana
Consider the banana: that ambassador of potassium, patron saint of portable snacks, fundamental unit of slapstick, euphemiser of dementia.

By: MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 04, 2008

Web lore

Sarah Boxer’s best of the blogosphere
Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web outs itself on the back cover: “A book of blogs? WTF!!!”

By: SHARON STEEL | February 25, 2008

Race and romance

Adrian Tomine’s graphic identity
You may recognize Tomine’s clean yet highly stylistic illustrations from the New Yorker or Rolling Stone , but this is his first attempt — and a successful one — at long-form narrative.

By: KRISTINA WONG | February 20, 2008

Show and tell

Adrian Tomine gets it together
I’d never really had a crush on a drawing before. But when I began reading Adrian Tomine several years ago, I started falling for ’em left and right.

By: MIKE MILIARD | February 26, 2008

Unauthorized!

Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography
I think it may have been sometime in the 1970s that the term “unauthorized” became sort of cool.

By: JAMES PARKER | May 26, 2009

Blues redux

The music’s other life
Demystifying the origins of the blues has become a cottage publishing industry.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | February 12, 2008

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