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April 27, 2008
By Marc Weingarten
Her third novel, "The Age of Dreaming,'
JACKET COPY:
Her upcoming 'The Last Embrace' is set in 1949.
April 23, 2008
By Swati Pandey
Sex in literary fiction is going far beyond the missionary position. Witness Melanie Abrams' 'Playing.'
By Tim Rutten
BOOK REVIEW:
The subtle historian excels on 20th century European intellectuals but trips in polemics on Israel.
April 22, 2008
By Regina Marler
BOOK REVIEW:
A father tries to bring his comic-book-loving son out of a coma.
April 21, 2008
By Edward Humes
BOOK REVIEW:
The L.A.Times columnist becomes an unlikely advocate and friend to a mentally ill homeless man who was once a musical prodigy.
April 20, 2008
By Scott Timberg
BOOKS:
Leading a contemplative literary life isn't dead even in these hectic times, and here are three lively examples.
By Robert Hilburn
BOOK REVIEW:
How the boy from a hardscrabble Texas town became a country music icon.
By Richard Schickel
BOOK REVIEW:
The director's work was brash, kinky, grand and hollow at the core--an argument that can be made about the man himself, as a new biography suggests.
By Tara Ison
BOOK REVIEW:
The scientific exploration of human sexuality.
By Jay Parini
BOOK REVIEW:
In a spinoff of 'The Aeneid,' a writer amplifies Virgil's myth in modern ways
By Elizabeth Mehren
BOOK REVIEW:
The tale of one man's quest to preserve Japan's revered Akita breed of dogs from extinction.
By Marc Weingarten
BOOK REVIEW:
Empathetic and keenly observed recollections by an honored novelist in the 20 years before his 2006 death.
By Susan Salter Reynolds
BOOK REVIEW:
Three books on how to cope with Leben und Werk.
POP ART:
PowerHouse Books will begin with 'Wax Poetics Anthology Volume 1' and 'Wax Poetics Cover Story.'
BOOK REVIEW:
A portrait of the Joker as a chilling villain resurfaces as a 1988 graphic novel is reissued in anticipation of a new Batman movie.
April 19, 2008
By Dan Epstein
BOOK REVIEW:
Welcome to the world of a tribute band, where there can be tough competition and where reality and fantasy can blur.
By Geoff Boucher
Stan Lee, who will oversee Virgin Comics' new line of superheroes, says he has 'some exciting things in mind.'
April 18, 2008
By Erin Aubry Kaplan
BOOK REVIEW:
Addressing the failure of today's black public intellectuals to support the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and build on the struggles of the civil rights era.
April 17, 2008
By Liz Brown
BOOK REVIEW:
Reflections on movie reviewers and their books.
April 16, 2008
By Tim Rutten
BOOK REVIEW:
Political commentator Kevin Phillips traces the chain of events that caused the current economic crisis.
April 15, 2008
By Tod Goldberg
BOOK REVIEW:
Smells like teen angst
April 14, 2008
By Jim Sleeper
BOOK REVIEW:
September 11: Terror and Boredom
April 13, 2008
By Susan Salter Reynolds
The Writing Life:
'The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From an Active Live' and 'American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau'
By Richard Rayner
BOOK REVIEW:
Masterful essays on impostors, con men and other outtakes of American life.
By Jonathan Kirsch
BOOK REVIEW:
The world-traveling journalist and novelist's portrait of the life and mission of the present Dalai Lama.
By Sara Lippincott
BOOK REVIEW:
Sir Isaac, briefly.
By Jack Lynch
BOOK REVIEW
By Richard Eder
BOOK REVIEW:
A fresh crop of literary intellectuals meets the modern world.
By Charles Taylor
It is elevated to fine art, with famous models posing for top fashion photographers.
By Susan Salter Reynolds
BOOK REVIEW:
'Translucent Tree' by Nobuko Takagi and 'The Ginseng Hunter' by Jeff Talarigo
By Susan Carpenter
BOOK REVIEW:
A father's abuse of one son has profound effects on the other boy and the rest of the family.
BOOK REVIEW:
Summary here
April 11, 2008
By Paula L. Woods
BOOK REVIEW:
A successful writer's suicide triggers soul-searching in his upstate New York hometown.
April 10, 2008
By David L. Ulin
BOOK REVIEW:
Harry Harrison's 1966 novel about the collapse of an overpopulated society is republished. The film 'Soylent Green' is based on the book.
April 9, 2008
By Tim Rutten
BOOK REVIEW:
Louis P. Masur begins with a photo that shocked a consciously racial America in 1976 and ends with a resonating look at civil rights resistance.
By Marc Weingarten
Think of artist Hillary Carlip's book as performance art -- in print.
April 8, 2008
By David Ehrenstein
BOOK REVIEW:
Something's missing in the family encyclopedia and Alistair McCartney has his finger on it.
April 7, 2008
By Carmela Ciuraru
BOOK REVIEW:
Family secrets lie at the end of a dark and twisted path
October 24, 2007
By Irene Wanner
BOOK REVIEW:
An account of the adventures of the celebrated 13th century world traveler.
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