Ira Berlin's The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations.
Ira Berlin begins this book by recounting a conversation he had several …
Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System.
Barack Obama inherited George W. Bush's war—not just in Iraq and …
Martha Nussbaum's From Disgust to Humanity.
New Hampshire state Rep. Nancy Elliott, at a recent state Judiciary …
Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll.
Toward the end of his life, in 1896, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (also …
The death of the library book
Cambridge has a gleaming new main building, but something's missing …
Margaret Atwood: Hockey star
The literary giant passes along her goaltending wisdom in a hilarious …
'Little Billy's Letters' at a glance
Advice to a fictional ten-year-old from Janet Reno, OJ Simpson's attorney …
Author assumes guise of 10-year-old to punk famous
In new book, Bill Geerhart's grade schooler alter ego gets advice from …
My Pal Paul Newman
The legendary actor loved playing practical jokes on everyone from …
The Honorable Press Baron
A new biography of Joseph Pulitzer charts his unlikely beginnings and …
The Best of Brit Lit
A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. …
Have We Given Up on Fiction?
When memoirs outsell novels and reality TV is more watched than dramas, …
Immigrants to Obama: It's Time
Gabriel Thompson Around the country, the temperature in immigrant …
30 Million Reasons
The EditorsWe support passage of the healthcare legislation, even as …
A Wise Unknowingness: On Violet Gibson
Brenda WineappleThe woman who shot Mussolini. Paul Duguid: Privacy …
GOP Peaceniks?
From the Feuilletons
On the eve of the Leipzig Book Fair, a list of German writers, including …
"Don't let this become a witch hunt"
Austrian writer Josef Haslinger, who was sexually abused by paedophile …
Magazine Roundup
Andrzej Stasiuk on why he doesn't care if Kapuscinski made it all up.
Kapuscinki's poetic license
Biographer Artur Domoslawski on why only a non-fictional Kapucinski is …
From Collegium, a special issue on World Music. David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music — why are people so angry about that? (and more on how artificial intelligence will change music). From Vice, an essay on Transcendental Black Metal. How we describe pop music proves that we find moral significance in music (and more). From ABBA to ZZ Top, all the good band names are taken. Greg Milner on The Beatles: Some titles to consider when you feel like getting back to where you once belonged. Does a new anthology devoted to a hip-hop classic elevate the genre to its rightful place as a literary form? Alex Ross on why it's time to show our appreciation for classical music: Let our applause be heard. A review of I Am Ozzy
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