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Laura Bush is the fictional 'American Wife'
In American Wife, a novel loosely inspired by the life of Laura Bush, Curtis Sittenfeld boldly imagines the inner life of a first ...

Book Buzz: 'Suite' surprise from Holocaust victim
Nicholas Sparks' Nights in Rodanthe gets a USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list spark from its movie tie-in, Eckhart Tolle's New ...

Book roundup: Fiction
The murder of Pope John Paul I, a manic comedy about art theft, a story of motherhood gone wrong and short stories about superheroes ...

'Turnaround' takes aim at war's damages
There are moments in The Turnaround when George Pelecanos so perfectly evokes the 1970s that those of us who lived through that ...

Literary festivals are in the air this fall
Fall is the busiest season for literary festivals where writers meet readers and vice versa. Many are free and include events ...

'Thrill' revisits notorious Leopold/Loeb murder
Simon Baatz's For the Thrill of It is the kind of book that can ruin late-summer vacation plans. It's a riveting non-fiction ...

Books of The Times: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Other Imaginative Acts
In addition to fresh revelations about the W.M.D. megascandal, Ron Suskind offers a complex web of intersecting narratives that manage to show us, in this age of terror, "the true way of the world."

Books of The Times: Behold the Kind-of Hero, in a Sort-of Civil War
"Man in the Dark" is the latest product of Paul Auster's more than 20-year career as the most meta of American metafictional writers.

Books: A Doctor Transformed, Into a Patient
Dr. Thomas Graboys' memoir of dealing with Parkinson's disease stands out as a small wonder.

Dave Freeman, Co-Author of Travel Book With a Deadline, Dies at 47
Mr. Freeman was co-author of "100 Things to Do Before You Die," a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators.

Findings: Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master?
Vernor Vinge has been urging his fellow humans to get smarter by collaborating with computers.

Britain's Thatcher Has Dementia
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been suffering from dementia for at least the past eight years, according to a memoir published by her daughter.

Books of The Times: A Texas Babe to Join the Brethren (Any Dissenting Opinions?)
An anomalously funny thing happened to Christopher Buckley on his way to the "Supreme Courtship": nothing funny occurred to him.

War and Peace
Kenneth M. Pollack advocates a generation-long commitment to promote reform in the Middle East, on a scale with America's postwar involvement in Europe.


English Lessons
An American journalist reports on her adventures navigating that exotic island nation: Britain.


Emily's Tryst
Brenda Wineapple explores the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.


My Dirty Laundrette
Hanif Kureishi's pallid new novel considers middle-age alienation and lust in immigrant London.


The Art of Momoir
A year in the life of a mom -- the performance artist Sandra Tsing Loh.


Return Ticket
Paul Theroux retraces the journey that established his career.


Guiding Forces
How to steer people toward healthier, more prosperous lives, with a little help from the powers that be.


Piece This One Together
A novel from 1969 comes as a box of unbound sheaves, giving the reader a sense of the fragile experiences it contains.


Friends in Unfriendly Places
A foreign correspondent recounts the history of the Kurds.


The Theory That Ate the World
Stephen Hawking said when something falls into a black hole, all its information is lost. To one academic, that sounded like curtains for quantum mechanics.




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