June 28th, 2008 at 12:04am Under Books & Talks
After losing her mother to Alzheimer’s, Lauren Kessler was wracked with guilt. “I cared but not from that visceral place where love is,” she recalls of her feelings during her mother’s illness. Seeking penance and a greater understanding of the disease, she took a low-level position at an…
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:04am Under Books & Talks
Harry Bernstein’s first critical success came with his memoir The Invisible Wall , published two years ago when he was 96. It described his upbringing in an impoverished Lancashire town, where the Jews lived on one side of the street and the Christians on the other. Though he’d been a writer all his…
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Books & Talks
Summer is a season that demands a certain kind of book. It’s a time for beach reads, they say, not for “Finnegans Wake” or “Gravity’s Rainbow.” You don’t have to work the book. The book works you.
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June 21st, 2008 at 12:01am Under Books & Talks
Book World’s For Young Readers column kicked off almost seven years ago, in the shadow of 9/11. Since then, I’ve churned out 170-plus columns covering hundreds of titles, from board books to YA heavy hitters, science to science fiction.
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June 21st, 2008 at 12:01am Under Books & Talks
Some years ago in a rebel-held enclave of Sudan, I met a man whom I had reported as assassinated. He was chief Hussein Karbus, and I was introduced to him by the man I had said killed him, the liberation fighter Yousif Kuwa Mekki.
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June 21st, 2008 at 12:01am Under Books & Talks
There are many who live by writing, which is brave enough, but few who write to keep people alive. Alex de Waal is in the latter category, an indefatigable writer with an urgent message: There are tribes in mortal danger, whole populations marked for genocide.
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June 21st, 2008 at 12:01am Under Books & Talks
A SUMMER OF HUMMINGBIRDS Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade By Christopher Benfey
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:01am Under Books & Talks
A PATENT LIE By Paul Goldstein Doubleday. 293 pp. $24.95 Michael Seeley, the intellectual property lawyer at the center of this legal thriller, is down on his luck when we meet him. Seeley grew up in Buffalo, the son of a drunken lout who beat him and his younger brother, but he made his way to H…
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:01am Under Books & Talks
LEADERLESS JIHAD Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century By Marc Sageman Univ. of Pennsylvania. 200 pp. $24.95 THE CONFRONTATION Winning the War Against Future Jihad By Walid Phares Palgrave Macmillan. 296 pp. $24.95 Al-Qaeda is synonymous with Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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