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God and Man at National Review

An engaging memoir of a young man basking in, and at times trying to escape, the aura of his famous mentor, William F. Buckley Jr.

Wasted Land

Nick Reding’s unnerving portrait of Oelwein, Iowa, depicts a catastrophe of Chernobylish dimensions, precipitated by the loss of jobs and the rise of methamphetamines.

Past-Prime Crisis

In this novel, a septuagenarian East Village couple wrestle with real estate, terrorism, real estate, an ailing dog and real estate.

Princes and Imams

A Times reporter’s funny, perceptive take on the Middle East and why reform there is so difficult.

Maternity Tests

The women of Amanda Eyre Ward’s stories navigate the glories and tolls of love and motherhood.

Unreal Estate

In “Busted,” The Times’s Edmund L. Andrews explains why he bought a house he couldn’t afford. In “Our Lot,” Alyssa Katz chronicles how home lending was upended in the first place.

The Baby-Industrial Complex

A new father’s memoir of modern parenting, from Buy Buy Baby to Dr. Ferber.

Goddess of Mischief

A lively, harrowing biography of the glamorous Idina Sackville, celebrated and reviled as a ringleader of the British colonial scene in 1920s Africa.

Fiction Chronicle

Novels and stories by Eric Bogosian, Dennis Cooper, J. C. Hallman and Chuck Palahniuk.

Addicted to Intervention

An antsy mother and her bipolar heroin-addict son narrate this first novel.

Music

Daily Dose

Daily Dose for Sun, Jul 5: Border Songs

Border Songs by Jim Lynch
Reviewed by Paul from Plano, IL.

Daily Dose for Sat, Jul 4: Immortals: The Calling

Immortals: The Calling by Jennifer Ashley
Reviewed by HEATHER from CADIZ, KY.

Daily Dose for Fri, Jul 3: Keep Chickens!: Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and other Small Spaces

Keep Chickens!: Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and other Small Spaces by Barbara Kilarski
Reviewed by Chloe from Portland, OR.

Daily Dose for Thu, Jul 2: Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia

Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia by Cindy Pon
Reviewed by Cassie from Hillsboro, Oregon.

Daily Dose for Wed, Jul 1: Take a Walk: 100+ Walks Through Natural Places in the Puget Sound Region

Take a Walk: 100+ Walks Through Natural Places in the Puget Sound Region by Sue Muller Hacking
Reviewed by Andrew from Kirkland, Washington.

Library of Congress Musings

Is a Bad Economy Ever ‘Good’?

It’s sometimes said that if you want a really steady income, become an undertaker. There’s no doubt right now that times are tough all over.  The news media is among the industries that have been hit especially hard–in this case, by factors including changing technology and news-consumption habits, but also by lower ad revenues from the [...]

Life in a Library ‘Theme Park’

The Library of Congress acquires some 10,000 items a day for its collections. But many of our finest acquisitions are not bound between leather covers or captured on a reel of celluloid: They are the people who make our collections come alive, who unearth meaning and inspiration among our 653 miles of stacks. One such [...]

2,454 Words About a ‘Quiet’ Poet

This week’s Newsweek has a lengthy profile of our Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan. It’s a fascinating read, and I’d commend it to your attention. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Kay a few times and talking with her several more times, and I think the article does a wonderful job of capturing her personality, [...]

Hey U, Tune In: The Library Is Now on iTunes U

Blog. Twitter. YouTube.  iTunes.  Yeah, we speak Web 2.0. You nation’s Library has millions of stories to tell, so we’re trying to tell them as many places and to as many people as possible–whether on our own website or elsewhere.  And now you can add another biggie to the list: iTunes U. For those who don’t know, [...]

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God and Man at National Review

An engaging memoir of a young man basking in, and at times trying to escape, the aura of his famous mentor, William F. Buckley Jr.

Wasted Land

Nick Reding’s unnerving portrait of Oelwein, Iowa, depicts a catastrophe of Chernobylish dimensions, precipitated by the loss of jobs and the rise of methamphetamines.

Past-Prime Crisis

In this novel, a septuagenarian East Village couple wrestle with real estate, terrorism, real estate, an ailing dog and real estate.

Princes and Imams

A Times reporter’s funny, perceptive take on the Middle East and why reform there is so difficult.

Maternity Tests

The women of Amanda Eyre Ward’s stories navigate the glories and tolls of love and motherhood.

 

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Girls gone wild

How feisty females took over pop culture

Somewhere, Jane Austen is aghast. Queen Victoria is about to blow a gasket. And your sweet little great-grandmother, the one apt to blush when the word "corset" came up in mixed company, is positively apoplectic.


'Follow Me' by Joanna Scott is our editor's Book of the Week

Joanna Scott, one of my favorite writers, returns to the past in this novel, the MacArthur Fellow's 10th work of fiction. While Scott possesses a fierce tenderness in her backward glance, each book is wildly different in structure and tone. In this most recent work, set in the unforgiving farmland and beginning in 1946, Scott evokes six decades of a woman's life, telling the classic American story -- the act of self-creation -- with urgency, beginning when Sally Werner leaves her infant boy on the kitchen table and disappears, leaving readers to follow.


Palm Island death inspires 'Tall Man'

The English navigator and explorer Capt. James Cook named a lot of islands when he claimed Australia's eastern coast for King George III, in 1770. But Palm Island was among the most beautiful -- a tropical Shangri-La blessed with sandy beaches, enchanting coves and enough vegetation to sustain a colony of Robinson Crusoes.


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Chicago is the crime fiction capital of the world. Just ask any of the great writers (Sean Chercover, Barbara D'Amato, Michael Allen Dymmoch, Kevin Guilfoile, Libby Hellmann, Sara Paretsky, Marcus Sakey and others) who gather regularly at a blog called The Outfit.


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'The Second Plane' by Martin Amis

September 11: Terror and Boredom

IT would be too easy to read Martin Amis' slim book on Sept. 11 in a day and to dismiss it with a politically correct glare. The dozen essays, columns and reviews and two short stories in "The Second Plane: September 11, Terror and Boredom" are more illuminating than that, though deeply, sometimes self-indulgently flawed.


'The House of Widows' by Askold Melnyczuk

Family secrets lie at the end of a dark and twisted path

FROM its puzzling opening line ("The most common grammatical error is the lie"), there's an ominous vibe to Askold Melnyczuk's third novel, "The House of Widows," and the sense of unease lingers until the final sentence. It's a mysterious, masterfully taut story in which dread plays a prominent role.


'Marco Polo' by Laurence Bergreen

An account of the adventures of the celebrated 13th century world traveler.

MARCO POLO was only 17 when he departed for China in 1271 with his father, Niccolò, and his uncle, Maffeo. Those two merchants of Venice were known to the boy primarily as storytellers of their fabulous exploits, writes award-winning biographer and historian Laurence Bergreen, for they had been absent more than 16 years, Marco's entire childhood. The pair had followed trade routes east, encountered exotic countries and customs and survived many perils; they had even lived for a time at the court of Kublai Khan, the leader of the Mongol Empire. Eventually they agreed to accompany his emissary west to the pope, vowing to return to Cambulac (Beijing) with several items the Great Khan had requested.


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