- March 6, 2006
- Keeping Up With the Dead
The confessions of an obit addict.
- February 20, 2006
- Come and Meet Those Dancing Feet
Marshall Berman’s history of Times Square hops, skips, and two-steps all over the twentieth century.
- February 6, 2006
- Report From Stroller Central
Ayelet Waldman�the writer New York moms love to hate�strikes back with a novel about Manhattan motherhood.
- January 16, 2006
- Stalin Grads
Two novelists find rich material in competing Soviet legacies: artistic genius and thuggish repression.
- December 26, 2005
- The Right Stuff
Marc Weingarten’s history of the New Journalism sets down the facts well. But wasn’t that the old journalism?
- October 24, 2005
- Case of the Benz
Rafi Zabor’s 'I, Wabenzi' is a wild ride through grief�until it hits a disappointing detour.
- October 17, 2005
- The Blue and the Gray
Joshua Wolf Shenk elegantly argues that Abraham Lincoln’s depression was the fire beneath his ambition.
- September 5, 2005
- Fly Like an Ego
In praise of self-indulgence.
- August 22, 2005
- The Smartest Guy in the Room
Edmund Wilson’s brilliance won him untold love and admiration, but for him, nothing beat a good book.
- July 25, 2005
- The Toughest Jews
Avner Mandelman’s stories capture the tortured psyche of Israel’s baby-boomers.