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Is everything we know about American history wrong?
Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primordial slime of false starts and mutations."
By Louis Bayard May 9, 2008
"The Rabbi's Cat"
A graphic novel celebrates a lost Algerian-Jewish way of life and wonders what it means to live as a person of faith in a world that doesn't share it.
By Douglas Wolk May 7, 2008
Hospital, USA
This fascinating portrait of a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital is about much more than white coats and beeping consoles -- it's 21st-century America in a microcosm.
By Laura Miller May 6, 2008
You are not your bookcase
Online profiles and painfully constructed "faves lists" have turned us into a bunch of unwitting snobs. Enough already.
By Megan Hustad May 2, 2008
Comic relief
From superheroes to horror to kid stuff, our guide to Free Comic Book Day offers graphic fun for all.
By Douglas Wolk May 2, 2008
Ursula K. Le Guin celebrates early Rome
The unlikely heroine of "Lavinia" leaps out of the Aeneid and brings an ancient culture -- deeply bound by "duty, order and justice" -- to life.
By Laura Miller May 1, 2008
Publishers think women are stupid?
A columnist says that book covers featuring women's "disjointed body parts" are proof.
Tracy Clark-Flory Apr 30, 2008
Flagging America's racial divide
An infamous 1976 photo captured a violent encounter between white Bostonians and a black lawyer during an anti-busing rally. A new book explains why this image continues to haunt and define us.
By Louis Bayard Apr 28, 2008
Tangled up in Dylan
Suze Rotolo, the musician's first muse, has written an entertaining memoir about their love affair that is also a remarkable portrait of living and making art in the 1960s.
By Stephanie Zacharek Apr 26, 2008
The GOP on the verge of imploding
A look at how radicalism has forced the Republican Party to retreat.
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 24, 2008
When my finger was on the button for Israel
I was a young law student applying for a part-time internship. To my amazement, I was soon casting votes at the U.N. and working for Ariel Sharon.
By Gregory Levey Apr 22, 2008
When bananas ruled the world
Intrigue. Power. Corruption. Death. Sex. The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit.
By Katharine Mieszkowski Apr 19, 2008
The witty detective
Karen Joy Fowler's follow-up to bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club" is a detective novel about a mystery writer whose tales come back to haunt her.
By Louis Bayard Apr 18, 2008
Media hypocrites love personality politics
Why is the GOP smear machine so good at re-creating the social dynamics of high school, pitting the Republican jocks against the Democratic nerds?
By Glenn Greenwald Apr 17, 2008
Criminals of the world, unite and take over
In "McMafia," author Misha Glenny takes us on a startling tour of the new international underworld, documenting the hidden costs of an unregulated global free market.
By Laura Miller Apr 16, 2008
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Rob Neyer's latest "Big Book" debunks some baseball legends and confirms a few, all without spoiling the fun.
By King Kaufman Apr 16, 2008
Dick Cheney was never a "grown-up"
A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism.
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 14, 2008
The decline and fall of the American empire of debt
Kevin Phillips' newest excoriation of the state of the union, "Bad Money," is the right book for the right time.
Andrew Leonard Apr 14, 2008
Once upon a time, Dad went to war
Books had always helped me in a crisis. But could I find one that explained to my kids why their father was in Iraq?
By Alison Buckholtz Apr 11, 2008
Where have all the bohemians gone?
Richard Florida has made a career out of explaining the economic importance of the creative class. His latest book is a field guide to their moving and mating habits.
By James Hannaham Apr 11, 2008
Sins of the mothers
Jonathan Coe's graceful new novel is the tale of daughters destined to repeat the failures of their mothers.
By Laura Miller Apr 10, 2008
Through a bong, darkly
A new book argues that the '60s counterculture achieved nothing of lasting importance. So why does the era continue to fascinate us?
By Gary Kamiya Apr 9, 2008
How "Slaughterhouse Five" was born
Kurt Vonnegut's new posthumous collection reveals the seeds of a modern masterpiece.
By Steve Almond Apr 7, 2008
Can Stephen Colbert save America?
A new book argues that Colbert, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are good for democracy. But is it taking late-night comedy too seriously?
By Louis Bayard Apr 5, 2008
Marching into the mommy wars
Everyone has an opinion about stay-at-home mothers. With her new novel, Meg Wolitzer has just one agenda -- to tell the truth about their lives.
By Rebecca Traister Apr 3, 2008
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