Books of the Times: A Lifetime Spent Fleeing the Savagery That Follows
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Though clearly meant to have an epic sweep, âThe Gravediggerâs Daughterâ feels like a four-hour film that should have been cut by 90 minutes.
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Travel: Rory MacLean recommends the best books for transporting readers to a foreign land
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Topping best-seller lists this fall are novels by popular authors who use fiction to dissect a slice of American culture and politics. Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear, might be the most provocative and controversial of them all.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: The latest book of the year shortlist can't disguise the prejudices that threaten literature
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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An old master gives us an exemplary what-not-to-do list in her new book
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A quick hike through the Sunday (and a few non-Sunday) book review sections. The Times of London A.C. Grayling takes a sober and sobering look at âCrimes of War (2.0): What the Public Should Know,â edited by Roy Gutman, David Reiff and Anthony Dworkin: In its first edition, published in 1999, this book was an importantly useful compendium, [...].
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Two new books provide ambitious overviews of complicated topics.
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David Bollier's Brand Name Bullies seeks to expose the 'quest to own and control our culture.' But the book's real value is in its numerous case studies of copyright and trademark battles. By Amit Asaravala.
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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Tom Wolfe's new novel feels as if its author were merely going through the motions instead of really trying to capture the raucous carnival of American life.
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FoTW Inability to follow a story by reason of anger, part 73
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CHICAGO, Dec 4 (Reuters Life!) - From the end of the world to New Testament beginnings. The authors of the controversial but best-selling apocalyptic "Left Behind" series have gone back in time.
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Eliot Weinberger, a previous finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, set off a stir by saying that one of this year's nominees, Bruce Bawer, had engaged in âracism as criticism.â
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Â· State catalogues atrocities during dictatorship  Â· Victims' relatives join president at book launch
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Arts & entertainment: Roberto Saviano on how his hatred of the mafia drove him to expose them in a bestselling book