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Topic: Books (page 360)

"The Judge and the Historian": Injustice, Italian style

Jonathan Groner

Are you an incomplete? Exploring the boon and bane of every college student.

"Whatever It Takes": Women jocks take up the pen

My "Outlander" thing: How a brainy guy like me wound up reading historical romances

Why knot? String theorists gather to find an explanation for gravity

Douglas Merrill

"The Kind I'm Likely to Get": Downtown anomie, but with feeling

"Walker Evans": A terrifically researched (but insufficiently critical) life of the photographer

Dear Mr. Blue: I can't get laid to save my life!

Garrison Keillor

Son of blotches and drips: Book jacket look-alikes

Tama Janowitz's "A Certain Age": Her best in years (but still flawed)

Mary Elizabeth Williams

You meet the nicest folks in porn theaters: Samuel Delany mourns Times Square

No sweat: Anti-sweatshop activists can handle the media, but can it handle itself?

"A Short History of Rudeness": Does success require boorishness?

Greg Villepique

Wild children: Why we shouldn't demonize Goth

"Magnificent Corpses": For the grisly-minded, a guide to saints' relics

Jackal of the North? Canadian agent ruffles feathers

Machine dreams: Postmodern theorists' obsession with the disappearing body

Virginia Eubanks

"My Father, Dancing": Stories of fathers conducting opera, philandering, ghost-writing term papers and dying

Dear Mr. Blue: My husband's porn habit is leaving me lonely

Garrison Keillor

You'll find Sid Arthur shelved in unfiction: My first month at a bookstore info desk

"The Big Con": The classic of larceny that inspired "The Sting"

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