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The author of "Rabbit, Run" picks the five greatest novels about romance.
By John Updike
May 24, 1999
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The Modern Library's nonfiction list egregiously ignores travel literature. We redress the oversight.
By Don George
May 19, 1999
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Pauline Kael picks five favorite novels that have something to do with the movies.
By Pauline Kael
May 17, 1999
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"In Search of Adventure," a new anthology, is like any trip: A mix of sleepless nights and epiphanies.
By Don George
May 12, 1999
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Gore Vidal picks five favorite postwar novels, including one by ... Gore Vidal.
By Gore Vidal
May 10, 1999
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Laurie Gough's "Kite Strings of the Southern Cross" poignantly depicts the pleasures and perils of wanderlust.
By Don George
May 5, 1999
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A legendary newspaperman picks five sports novels that really hit home.
By Pete Hamill
May 3, 1999
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The surreal tales in Barry Yourgrau's "Haunted Traveller" embody some hard-won real-world truths.
By Don George
April 28, 1999
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A magic carpet in a hotel room, a safari gone astray, a mysterious mission, a map mishap -- four excerpts take unexpected twists.
By Barry Yourgrau
April 28, 1999
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The author of "Gain" and "The Gold Bug Variations" picks five novels from the edge of a new language.
By Richard Powers
April 26, 1999
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In his new book, T.R. Reid follows a grand tradition: Western writers evoking and explaining daily life in their adopted home.
By Don George
April 21, 1999
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The author of "The Sea Came in at Midnight" recommends five great contemporary novels about Los Angeles.
By Steve Erickson
April 19, 1999
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The poet-turned-memoirist talks about Italy, writing and how a bestseller changed her life.
By Don George
April 14, 1999
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Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels >1960.
By David Foster Wallace
April 12, 1999
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Guidebook pioneer publishes Eric Newby collection, prepares to launch three new series.
By Don George
April 7, 1999
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The author of "Bad Behavior" picks her five favorite short stories.
By Mary Gaitskill
April 5, 1999
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New ABC books are breathing life into an old genre by making letters vanish, get lost and pop up in unexpected places.
By Polly Shulman
January 20, 1999
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I used to tell my daughter she could read anything she wanted -- until she took me up on the offer.
By Inda Schaenen
July 17, 1998
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For Lisa Michaels, an encounter with a book-starved shopkeeper in Turkey provides a new perspective on literary packing.
By Lisa Michaels
December 3, 1997
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Reading is the one thing worth staying up all night for -- but only if you find the right book.
By Kate Moses
October 30, 1997
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An ode to relaxing with the Sunday New York Times
By Lori Leibovich
August 19, 1997
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The naughty, the nice and the nauseating. Snowed in by the spawn of The Christmas Box.
By Katherine Whittemore
December 16, 1996
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