The 2010 Bestseller Feature
/It's that time of year again, when our writers gird themselves and review all ten books on The New York Times bestseller list. This time around the quarry is bestselling Nonfiction.
Read MoreThe Curious Disposition
/Some of the greatest works of English literature grapple with the dark, knotted roots of anti-Semitism, and the audience is always complicit. A new book studies the tangle of art and atrocity in writers Chaucer to Marlowe to Shakespeare
Read MoreNo Heaven for Suckers
/He has become synonymous with amoral, cold-hearted political machination, but there was more to Machiavelli than that. A new biography attempts to look at the whole man.
Read More"What Seems Simple"
/"Pride and Prejudice" has been so thoroughly revised, modernized, and sequelized that its subtleties risk being overlooked. A new annotated edition seeks to yield up its many secrets.
Read Morefrom Party in My Body
/"Why does the age demand nothing? Am I transcendent or drunk?" :: An excerpt from the Rose Metal Press Field Guide to the Prose Poem
Read MoreWonders of the Field
/A conversation with the editors of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to the Prose Poem
Read MoreThe Mutilated World
/The attacks of 9/11 evoked reactions from writers around the world, and journalist Scott Malcolmson finds fault with a great many of them - but does he do any better a job himself?
Read MoreIn Possession of the Place
/Adam Nicolson chronicles his work bringing Sissinghurst castle and its grounds up to date--the delusions of a "hippie-squire" or the worthy restoration of a storied estate?
Read MoreThe Scents of Memory Theater
/Music and photographs can stir memories, but in the world of scent, only a single molecule -- a single note -- is needed to take us deep. In this installment of her regular column, our author waxes on how the Eighties and Nineties smelled.
Read MoreAn Authorless Chorus
/"I wanted to emphasize the creation of new space as something, rather than just an absence." -- a conversation with our cover artist Skye Gilkerson
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Romans: The Senator Investigates
/He toadied to a succession of emperors and trembled at the mere thought of being mugged -- on the surface, it looks odd to cast Pliny the Younger as a detective. A new mystery novel takes that chance.
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