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Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget

4 hours 42 min ago
A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.

Books of The Times: The Lives Gained by Fleeing Jim Crow

5 hours 44 min ago
In “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson documents the sweeping 55-year-long migration of black Americans from the South.

Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 16:36
Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” sheds little light on his political vision or on why he took Britain to war against Iraq.

The Updated Manual of Style

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 18:58
The 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style went on sale yesterday. In a nod to the past, the University of Chicago Press is offering a free e-book of the very first edition, published in 1906.

Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 15:12
After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.

Books of The Times: Young Man Seeks Poetry in World War II’s Ruins

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:30
A British author links his grandfather’s World War II bombing missions to the war poetry of the time.

Peace and War

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 04:00
Like Jonathan Franzen’s previous novel, “The Corrections,” this is a masterly portrait of a nuclear family in turmoil, with a majestic sweep that gathers every sociocultural morsel of our shared millennial life.

Books of The Times: Preppily Perplexed? A New Guidebook

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 03:47
“True Prep,” Lisa Birnbach’s successor to “The Official Preppy Handbook,” addresses the adult world of funerals and second marriages and the post-1980 world of cellphones, the Internet and synthetic fleece.

Researchers Start Job of Sorting Out Yiddish Writer's Papers

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 23:44
They will be moved from his apartment in the Bronx to the YIVO headquarters on West 16th Street.

At Bookstore, Even Nonbuyers Regret Its End

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 21:54
With more people choosing to buy books online, a Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side prepared to close early next year.

The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 20:36
Complete contents of the Book Review since 1997.

Sorry, One More Post About Franzen

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 19:53
Back in 2004, Jonathan Franzen reviewed Alice Munro's "Runaway" in the Book Review. Some of the thoughts provoked in him by that book sound an awful lot like some of the thoughts in his latest book, "Freedom."

Hardcover Fiction

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 16:32
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE POSTCARD KILLERS, by James Patterson and Liza Marklund
2. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson
3. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
4. THE COBRA, by Frederick Forsyth
5. STAR ISLAND, by Carl Hiaasen

The Language of Exile

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 16:25
Milan Kundera’s essays illuminate music, painting and writing in the context of what he calls a “post-art” era.

Journal Scales Back After Suicide

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 13:44
The future of The Virginia Quarterly Review, a highly regarded literary journal, is in doubt after an editor's suicide.

Spotlight: Rachel Shukert

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 23:25
Shukert, the author of "Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour," was a playwright and actress before she was a two-time memoirist.

New York’s Huckleberry Friend

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 19:38
New York City and state are filled with sites related to Mark Twain, and many celebrate the connection with special exhibitions and programs.

A Print-Free Oxford Dictionary?

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 18:31
Oxford University Press said no decision had been made on the format of the third edition of the O.E.D. after its chief executive seemed to suggest it might not be available in print.

Nuclear Family

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 16:45
The final book in a four-volume series describes the fate of nuclear weapons since the Soviet Union fell.

Where Hatred Ruled

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 16:39
The story of a 1945 Mississippi case of a black man accused of raping a white woman that exposed the seething tensions of the early civil rights era.