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Beliefs: Hitchens Brothers’ Rift Starts With Religion

8 hours 56 min ago
Peter and Christopher Hitchens have never been close, but perhaps nothing separates the brothers more than their views on faith.

Book Review - Long for This World - The Strange Science of Immortality - By Jonathan Weiner

9 hours 54 min ago
A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer examines the scientific battle against aging through the bizzare career of the English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey.

Book Review - Four Fish - By Paul Greenberg

9 hours 54 min ago
Even as Paul Greenberg lays out the grim and complicated facts about the ravaging of our seas, he manages to sound some hopeful notes about the ultimate fate of fish.

Up Front: Abraham Verghese

9 hours 54 min ago
Abraham Verghese is the rare physician to succeed with both fiction and nonfiction.

Lawrence Boadt, Priest, Publisher and Bible Scholar, Dies at 67

10 hours 6 min ago
The Roman Catholic priest, publisher and Bible scholar used his study of the Old Testament as a vehicle for promoting understanding between Christians and Jews.

Book Review - Telling Times - Writing and Living, 1954-2008 - By Nadine Gordimer

10 hours 25 min ago
A half-century of essays by the Nobel winner Nadine Gordimer, whose major theme of “writing and living” has been opposition to apartheid.

Turning Right

10 hours 26 min ago
A biography of Norman Podhoretz and a history of the magazine he edited tell the story of the neoconservative movement.

Book Review - The Fall of the House of Walworth - By Geoffrey O’Brien

15 hours 10 min ago
Geoffrey O’Brien recalls the lurid scandal of a notorious 19th-century literary parricide.

Book Review - Red Hook Road - By Ayelet Waldman

15 hours 12 min ago
Joy and tragedy bring two families together in unexpected ways in Ayelet Waldman’s novel.

Book Review - The Quickening - By Michelle Hoover

15 hours 20 min ago
This novel, narrated by two Midwestern farm wives, was inspired by a real journal.

Book Review - Brilliant - The Evolution of Artificial Light - By Jane Brox

15 hours 28 min ago
A history of the ways people have lighted their homes and paths, and of the social changes that have resulted.

Book Review - Cocaine Nation - By Tom Feiling

15 hours 40 min ago
How America’s insatiable craving for cocaine has spread misery and violence across the globe.

Books of The Times: Stefanie Syman’s Yoga History, ‘The Subtle Body’

15 hours 45 min ago
Stefanie Syman’s book examines how yoga, the centuries-old spiritual discipline, became a fitness routine for American athletes, C.E.O.’s, movie stars and soccer moms.

Book Review - Memory Wall - By Anthony Doerr

15 hours 54 min ago
These strange, beautiful tales all ask: What, if anything, will be preserved from time’s depredations?

Archive: Book Review Podcast

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 20:12
Featuring Jonathan Weiner, the author of “Long for This World,” on the science of immortality; and Sam Sifton on Paul Greenberg’s “Four Fish” and the future of the oceans.

Book Review - High Financier - The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg - By Niall Ferguson

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 19:27
A biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg, who built his empire in London after his flight from Nazi Germany.

Book Review - When London Was Capital of America - By Julie Flavell

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 19:27
A chapter of London’s — and North America’s — history: Before the Revolution, the metropolis was a magnet for colonists from across the Atlantic.

Book Review - Furious Love - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century - By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 19:14
A joint biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and their traveling circus of money, booze and mutual obsession.

Book Review - The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno - By Ellen Bryson

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 19:05
In this first novel, a mysterious seductress who signs on as an attraction at P. T. Barnum’s museum enchants the resident thin man.

Book Review - When That Rough God Goes Riding - Listening to Van Morrison - By Greil Marcus

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 17:55
The rock critic Greil Marcus plumbs the work of Van Morrison, who found inspiration in Yeats and Joyce.