Books of the Times: The Road Through Hell, Paved With Desperation
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Cormac McCarthyÂs new book would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.
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Some days it&#39;s hard to imagine how the news from Iraq can get any worse, although it has a way of doing just that with unsettling regularity.
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The pilgrimage to Thanksgiving dinner is often a battle against rude, obnoxious drivers and the impulse to throttle them.
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Peter Krause is the all-media master of misery
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Philip Shenonâs book chronicles the human frailty and folly that went into âThe 9/11 Report.â
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In the wan light of retail desperation, it's nearly impossible to spot a gem amid the acres of dreck: Eddie Money CDs, anyone? The soundtrack of "Snakes on a Plane"? Boxed sets of "Captain and Tennille" DVDs? Get there before it's too late.
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TULSA -- My late brother-in-law, William McDonald Reed Jr., once lectured me on the Theory of Farm Life as Related to Highway Driving. His talk was occasioned by my hubris.
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Before 1984,  before   The Handmaid's Tale,  before either the movie or  the book by  Stephen King, there was Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here.    Lewis' vision of an American descent into Fascism is as fresh and disturbing today  as it was when it was written in 1935.  Check out the full text  online,  and consider with me the continuing relevance of this 69 year old warning.
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In more than 20 trips to the ravaged city, TIME's Aparisim Ghosh has navigated countless perils. His extraordinary story offers a rare insight into the daily life of Iraqi citizens
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The lowdown on the world's most treacherous places--and what to do if you have to visit one.
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The governmentâs inability to manage a reverse exodus has left the most vulnerable in an uneasy limbo.
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Each day, the boulevard in this port city derisively dubbed "OPEC Street" is lined with dozens of vendors selling plastic jugs of black-market gasoline to desperate drivers who haggle over the price of a tankful.
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With a lifetimeÂs worth of stinging observations and sharp insights, Gore VidalÂs new memoir is unmissable.
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A cookbook author is angered that another writer is using his bookâs title, but learns thereâs not much he can do about it.
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Arts & entertainment: Guardian Books poll into era-defining books finds that paranoia, propaganda and a state of perpetual war are the defining characteristics of the last century.
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With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
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Medical care was at times so scarce and shabby that it became another kind of abuse. An inside look