Books of The Times: A Woman of Ambition, Neither Hero Nor Villain
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In Elisabeth Bumillerâs rendering Condoleezza Rice is neither hero nor villain but an ambitious woman whose achievements and shortcomings speak for themselves.
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Among the nonfiction titles, an eminently readable government report; all of the fiction authors selected are women.
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Caryl Churchill remains a rare thing, a hugely successful playwright who lets her work speak entirely for itself.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was an unabashedly liberal partisan who served in the Kennedy White House.
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The presidential hopeful stars in two unflattering tomes that, at the least, are reminders of her polarizing profile.
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John Banville, an author of serious literary ambitions, has written a swirling, elegant genre novel under a pseudonym.
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Getting a book published isn't the rarefied literary feat it once was.
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The heroine of this engaging new novel finds herself torn between two men: one serious, responsible and boring, the other romantic, charming and self-absorbed.
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Susanna Sonnenbergâs fiercely observed, fluently written book captures the chaos of her youth as the daughter of a coke addicted mother and a self-absorbed father, neither of whom had the faintest idea of how to be a parent.
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The works of Anthony Trollope form an unlikely backdrop to three women's lives.
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His candidacy works to inspire, while she appeals to reason and cites credentials.
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Working-class people, women especially, were this modernist authorâs concernâshe was an avant-gardist with a heart.
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Ms. Varnay never achieved widespread public recognition, but to opera buffs and insiders, she brought distinctive qualities to her work.
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To appreciate the silken agility with which Ann Patchett constructs her fiction, consider the way the opening sequence in her new novel, âRun,â invokes the Virgin Mary.
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A 19th century English classic is the basis for Indian director Mira Nair's "Vanity Fair" but she and her star Reese Witherspoon have transformed the novel's scheming heroine into a feminist ahead of her time.
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A 20th century witch, a black murder victim, a punk icon and Queen Victoria have all found their place in a major publication chronicling the lives of people who have left their mark on society.
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Susan Sontag's impassioned political pronouncements and her advocacy of the avant-garde made her a lionized and polarizing figure in 20th-century letters.