
Palin met by hundreds in Michigan
Hundreds turn out to cheer at GOP's former vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin apparently had a point to make when she chose economically ravaged Michigan as the first stop on her heavily promoted book tour.


Sarah Palin apparently had a point to make when she chose economically ravaged Michigan as the first stop on her heavily promoted book tour.

The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future. Continue reading »

Colum McCann's novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards. Continue reading »

If there had been a poet laureate of the United States in her lifetime, it is highly unlikely that Dorothy Parker would have been appointed to that position. Yet it is undeniable that Parker made ... Continue reading »

"The Calligrapher's Daughter" — the first novel of Eugenia Kim, the daughter of Korean parents who came to the United States after World War II — is a rich, elegant tapestry woven of the threads ... Continue reading »

Veronica Buckley's "The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Franoise D'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon," nominally a biography of Francoise D'Abigne, Louis XIV's last mistress and his secret wife, is more a cultural and political history of ... Continue reading »

NOV 10, 2009
Stewart Brand has just written a controversial but tremendously important book that calls on his ...