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Topic: Books (page 356)

Joyce Carol Oates picks five great "docu-novels"

Joyce Carol Oates

Dorm blues: Where peers reign and families disappear

The Gorilla Game:

Thomas Scoville

Grammar and style guides: Bending the rules with a dash of humor

"Digital Babylon": Can Hollywood learn from its online mistakes?

She got Gilgamesh: I got a humbling lesson in giving credit to the student

"A Book of Reasons": A brother's death inspires an anti-memoir

"Colony Girl": A Midwestern religious cult's rebellious young Eve

Sells like Teen Spirit: Today's experts still get kids wrong

The modest inventor: Berners-Lee's tell-all book about inventing the Web doesn't tell all that much

James Gleick's "Faster": What it means that thing keep speeding up

Fledgling studies: The mysterious echo of a bird's call in a Mayan temple has scholars forging new territory

Jennifer Ouellette

Voyeur publishes book of eavesdropped cell phone calls

Dear Mr. Blue: Where does a sexy 63-year-old go to find a man?

Garrison Keillor

Jelly maker: Michael Jordan is the true heir to Muhammad Ali's radicalism

"Blood in the Sun": A wild, exuberant trilogy by Africa's greatest novelist

Anderson Tepper

Authors who talk: Magnuson ribs Plimpton at the Moth

Machiavellian intrigue: Why are scientists and psychologists wrestling with the cruelest of Renaissance philosophers?

Dystopia parkway: Lorrie Moore picks five novels about the future

"The Great Shame": How the Irish triumphed outside Ireland

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Richard Christie

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