Our reviewers comb through each week’s new arrivals looking for books worthy of your time. Read our reviews, and other stories about books, here.
Lehane takes a detour
BOSTON — With eight novels — including “Mystic River” and “Gone, Baby, Gone” — set in his hometown, Dennis Lehane is almost as much a local institution here...
Fifty top selling books for Sept. 4
USA Today calculates a list of 300 best-selling books. USA Today’s list is based on a computer analysis of retail sales nationwide last week. Included are more than 1.5 million volumes from...
Fifty top selling books for Aug. 28
USA Today calculates a list of 300 best-selling books. USA Today’s list is based on a computer analysis of retail sales nationwide last week. Included are more than 1.5 million volumes from...
The crime that created Superman
On the night of June 2, 1932, the world’s first superhero was born — not on the mythical planet of Krypton, but from a little-known tragedy on the streets of Cleveland.
Fifty top selling books as of Aug. 21
USA TODAY calculates a list of 300 best-selling books. USA Today’s list is based on a computer analysis of retail sales nationwide last week. Included are more than 1.5 million volumes from...
Moore offers his ‘Election Guide’
Michael Moore has never been shy about making a political statement. Now the liberal filmmaker (Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11), who pleaded with Caroline Kennedy this week to become Barack Obama’s...
How Mandela won over a nation
If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlin’s engrossing book inspired by a rugby game.
Presidential race one for the books
Best-selling authors and presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain again have their names on book jackets — this time in the title only.
Fifty top selling books
USA Today calculates a list of 300 best-selling books. USA Today’s list is based on a computer analysis of retail sales nationwide last week. Included are more than 1.5 million volumes from...
Review: ‘The Time Paradox’
Our attitudes toward time shape every part of our lives, and yet few recognize how this subtle fact can sabotage careers or vault them skyward, wreck marriages and make people happy (or not),...
Chong chimes in on book, reunion
Tommy Chong, 70, half of the comedy act Cheech & Chong, is on his car phone. The conversation jumps from his new book, “Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography” (Simon Spotlight...
Fifty top selling books for Aug. 7
USA TODAY calculates a list of 300 best-selling books. USA TODAY’s list is based on a computer analysis of retail sales nationwide last week. Included are more than 1.5 million volumes from...
Book Review: Lessing’s ‘Alfred & Emily’
“Alfred & Emily” is Doris Lessing’s first book since the 88-year-old British writer won the 2007 Nobel Prize. Though by no means her best book, it reveals why Lessing deserved...
‘Emma’s Table’ serves up a familiar but filling feast
The quicker you can stop fixating on the fact that the imperious perfectionist who’s the centerpiece of “Emma’s Table” is based on a certain notorious doyenne of domesticity...
Writer reads road signals
NEW YORK — “Traffic,” a new book about being trapped in our cars, began with an urge to merge.
Years later, still Oprah-worthy?
Authors who have been crowned by Oprah’s Book Club would seem to have it made for life: guaranteed sales, acclaim and sometimes a movie deal. Two former Oprah authors —Christina Schwarz...
‘Gargoyle’ coming out of the woodwork
Could a debut novel about a drug-addicted porn star, burned to a crisp in a fiery car crash, be one of the year’s hottest books?
Fifty top selling books
USA Today calculates a list of 300 best-selling books. USA Today’s list is based on a computer analysis of retail sales nationwide last week. Included are more than 1.5 million volumes from...
Authors let parents find humor in serious job
Dr. Frederick Muench and his brother-in-law, Gregory Nemec, are the authors of a new book that gives parents an opportunity to see humor in what can sometimes be an overwhelming job. While “The...
Book review: ‘Palace Council’
Somewhere amid Stephen L. Carter’s verbose (more than 500 pages), over-plotted and only fitfully exciting literary novel-cum-thriller “Palace Council,” there’s a taut 98-page...
50 years of sun, fun and fame in “Hamptons’
In Dan Rattiner’s Hamptons, you won’t find any tales of PR queen Lizzie Grubman plowing into clubgoers with her SUV. Or dispatches from any of P. Diddy’s Ciroc-fueled soirees.
‘My Love’: Oates’ take on JonBenet case
For many readers, Joyce Carol Oates’ new novel, “My Sister, My Love,” will trigger a queasy sense of remorse and guilt.
1960 marked a whole new Games, world
The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reflected a changing world. Despite the subtitle of David Maraniss’ new nonfiction book, “Rome 1960,” it’s hyperbolic to say the Games...
Model T book illustrates car-loving culture
When Allen Drummond and his family moved to Savannah, Ga., from his native Britain four years ago, they didn’t have a car for two weeks.
Book Review: ‘The Warrior’
The book jacket displays a subtitle that doesn’t appear on the title page inside the book: “A Mother’s Story of a Son at War.”
Sacrifice is his muse
For a private first class, 40-year-old Poto Leifi skews a bit old. The Army reservist wanted to enlist 20 years ago, but his family convinced him otherwise. Art would become his career focus instead....
Homefront heroes
The childhood of second-grader Jake “Dutch” Tatum juxtaposes wonderment with anxiety.
Portrait series memorializes World War II vets
While a student two years ago at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Thomas Sanders wandered into The Villages retirement home seeking “any interesting elderly people to...
McMurtry on ‘Books,’ life, computers
Before Larry McMurtry became a screenwriter “(Brokeback Mountain)” and novelist “(Lonesome Dove),” he was a book scout, tracking down rare books, and a seller of antiquarian...
Hollywood legends tell all this fall
Remember when Hollywood was glamorous? Lots of stars do, and they’re reliving the glory days. It seems every Hollywood celebrity of a certain age — from Tony Curtis to Robert Wagner...
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