Topic: Books (page 367)

"Desperate Characters": A brilliant, cheerless classic

Dear Mr. Blue: Is it OK for me to see my married male friend without his

Garrison Keillor

"Girls' Guide" rocks! An interview with Melissa Bank

"Girls' Guide" sucks! Not terribly funny; not terribly anything at all

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Wings of (Serbian) desire: Vociferous pro-Milosevic writer denounced by European intelligentsia

"Devil Take the Hindmost": Dark speculations on financial speculation

The fine art of navel-gazing: Ann Beattie picks five great books about self-consciousness

The wages of thin: The skinny on "The Skinny," a new book that purports to tell it like it is about losing weight

Mary Elizabeth Williams

The ethereal physics of scientific authorship: Why do the powerful get so much credit?

English as shes spoke: New edition of the Concise OED published

Why do I teach community college? Because I can help others get their lives back on track, just as I did

Eating disorders: In Thomas Harris' "Hannibal," the psychopathic cannibal just had a bad childhood

"Who Killed Kirov?": Take one guess

Katharine Whittemore

Dorothy Allison

America adopts the Holocaust: Two new books ask why

Tale of the Turkish chairs: Will they massacre history?

Christopher Shea

"Layover": Woman sneaks into hotels, breaks down

Sacred territory: Cutting open my first cadaver

Lori Arviso Alvord, M.d., Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

Skin games: In the posthumous "Juneteenth," Ralph Ellison probes a bigoted senator's murky past

Colson Whitehead

Paul Mazursky's "Show Me the Magic": The gifted comedic director recalls the stars -- including Jack Nicholson and Shelley

Dear Mr. Blue I want kinkier sex, but he likes me pristine. But I'm not! New! Mr. Blue appears weekly!

Garrison Keillor

Excerpt from "Love in a Dead Language": Guess who's coming to dinner? In this comic set piece, an academic couple compete t

Michael Korda: A power editor picks his favorite novels of the past 40 years

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