Poet’s Kinship With the President
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
On Wednesday the inaugural planners will announce that Richard Blanco will be the 2013 inaugural poet, joining the ranks of notables like Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.
“Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History” shows in Mrs. Johnson’s own words how she developed into an assertive first lady and an environmental pioneer who was decades ahead of her time.
Mr. Cramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was the author of “What It Takes,” an intimate, deeply reported account of the 1988 presidential election.
On Wednesday the inaugural planners will announce that Richard Blanco will be the 2013 inaugural poet, joining the ranks of notables like Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.
The “Fred Voodoo” referred to in the title of Amy Wilentz’s new book represents to her all the stereotypes outsiders have come to attach to Haitians.
“The Dude and the Zen Master” is an incomplete and spotty guide to Zen philosophy, where sometimes the Dude-ism and the Buddhism mix in a helpful way.
In “Bleeding Talent,” a new book, Tim Kane urges a dose of classic economics to overhaul the military structure. “In terms of managing talent,” he says, “the U.S. military is doing everything wrong.”
The School of Life, a new Picador series, includes self-help books by Alain de Botton and Philippa Perry.
In a long-awaited memoir, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal says disputes with the White House began at the beginning of President Obama’s first term.
The Huntington Theater Company is providing the biggest stage yet for Oren Jacoby’s theatrical adaptation of “Invisible Man,” the classic Ralph Ellison novel.
Nathaniel and Simon Rich, the sons of Frank Rich and Gail Winston, make being celebrity siblings look like a walk in the park.
Lawrence Wright’s book “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief” explains that more people appear willing to discuss Scientology’s image problems.
In Warren Ellis’s “Gun Machine” a murderous psychopath who believes he is a resident of pre-colonial Manhattan is tracked by a messy, isolated police detective.
The company's Nook unit suffered a 12.6 percent decline in sales compared with the same period a year earlier, a blow to its hopes of building up its digital division to compete with behemoths like Amazon.com.
The brutal, beautiful vision of a great American storyteller.
Meat plays an outsize role in the demented behavior in Mo Yan’s novel “Pow!”
Set against the backdrop of the Great Migration, Ayana Mathis’s novel is a brutal and poetic allegory about a family beset by tribulations.
The author, whose recent books include “The Turning” and “Reading Like a Writer,” enjoys skimming writers’ memoirs for gossip about people she knows.
Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya inhabited several countries and genres.
Combining various narrative styles, Royall Tyler translates a medieval Japanese saga of pride, romance and warfare.
John Glassie’s subject, an intensely curious 17th-century thinker, tried to explain a rapidly changing world.
In Jojo Moyes’s novel, the young assistant to a quadriplegic devises adventures they can undertake together.
Bernard Bailyn argues that the early settlers were a “mixed multitude” who created disparate American cultures.
Her marriage in trouble, a young New York professional turns to the self-help book she loved as a child.
How a man and his mother connected during her final illness.
Originally published in 1933, Hans Keilson’s autobiographical first novel paints a bleak picture of life in Weimar Germany.
Physicists have applied their science (successfully) to some of the thorniest problems in economics, James Owen Weatherall argues.
In “Daddy Love,” Joyce Carol Oates writes about a young boy snatched from the parking lot of a mall.
A look at the relationship between dogs and people.
Diana Wagman’s heroine encounters a deranged iguana owner.
Young peddlers in Mumbai can rattle off the titles of the pirated books they sell, but they cannot tell you what’s inside.
The daily book critics of The New York Times choose their favorite books of the year.
This week, John Homans talks about “What’s a Dog For?”; Leslie Kaufman has notes from the field; Allan Kozinn discusses Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
Thirty years ago on the best-seller list, James Michener’s “Space” was one of several books grappling with the final frontier.
The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Some of the year’s best book covers, chosen by people in and around the world of graphic design.
Philip Roth discussed his decision to stop writing fiction: “I knew I wasn’t going to get another good idea, or if I did, I’d have to slave over it.”
A book about self-image, another about diet and one about habits do not follow the usual self-help path.
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