“The Pinecone”: Forgotten genius
Sarah Losh and the strange, beautiful, "pantheistic" church she built in an obscure corner of 19th-century England
Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 10:30 PM UTCEntertainment Books, Nonfiction, Biography
Sarah Losh and the strange, beautiful, "pantheistic" church she built in an obscure corner of 19th-century England
Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 10:30 PM UTCGeorge Saunders' new book offers savagely satirical tales from the viewpoint of the downtrodden Everyman
Monday, Jan 7, 2013 2:00 AM UTC 15The true story of a journalist seeking fabled ruins in a Central American jungle is a pulp adventure come to life
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 2:00 AM UTCWhile restoring a damaged masterpiece, a woodcarver offers wisdom to artists of every kind
Monday, Dec 24, 2012 2:00 AM UTCLaura Miller on what links top novels and nonfiction
Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 3:55 PM UTCTomorrow, we'll roll out our first What To Read Awards critics poll. As a sneak peek, here's our critic's list
Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 9:00 PM UTCFelix Gilman's fantasy of a roving frontier inventor captures the dangerous delusions of the American Dream
Sunday, Dec 16, 2012 11:00 PM UTCAn elegant crime boss, a mild-mannered detective and the world's most valuable necklace make for a ripping yarn
Sunday, Dec 2, 2012 11:00 PM UTCTen illustrated tales of love, war, crime, politics and sex, not to mention ghosts and mermaids SLIDE SHOW
Monday, Nov 26, 2012 1:00 AM UTCA master memoirist on the human-beast connection, from pampered pets and hated pests to girls and their horses
Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 10:00 PM UTCA cheating widow inherits a mansion full of taxidermy animals and secrets in Lydia Millet's new novel
Monday, Nov 12, 2012 12:00 AM UTCOliver Sacks explores the strange world of hallucinations, and says they're far more common than we realize
Monday, Nov 5, 2012 2:00 AM UTCScheming aristocrats, gamblers and fortune-tellers enliven this satisfying historical thriller set in Sweden
Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 11:00 PM UTCForget Sally Hemings -- a historian discovers the ugliest side of a founding father in his ledgers
Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 60A history of Memphis's yellow fever epidemic shows that heroes (and cowards) are where we least expect them
Sunday, Oct 7, 2012 11:00 AM UTCA young intellectual searches for the truth about his father's life -- and death
Sunday, Sep 23, 2012 10:00 PM UTCDamien Echols of the falsely convicted West Memphis Three tells his story in a riveting new memoir
Sunday, Sep 16, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 10Junot Diaz's irresistible new book traces a womanizer's rocky journey to maturity
Sunday, Sep 9, 2012 10:00 PM UTCThe director of "The Thin Blue Line" challenges the conviction of Jeffrey MacDonald
Sunday, Sep 2, 2012 9:00 PM UTC 62In the first novel in seven years from the author of "On Beauty," three people try to escape their roots
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