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September 3, 2007
Best of the Rest: Books

The return of Irvine Welsh, David Halberstam’s last book, a mob hit from Italy, and more.

September 3, 2007
Forget Obama and Hillary

It’s Bill vs. Greenspan vs. Valerie Plame Wilson. Somewhere at the intersection of policy porn and score-settling memoir lies the big-name political tract, and fall is often the season for them. Which will make the biggest media splash possible?

September 3, 2007
Murder, She Wrote

Author Alice Sebold is back�with a pretty tale of death in suburbia.

September 3, 2007
Philip Roth Will Not Go Gentle Into the Night

The final Zuckerman novel is as sexually obsessed as ever.

September 3, 2007
Anticipation Index

A mathematical breakdown of why we’re excited for...

September 3, 2007
Please, God, Don’t Be Too Pissed at Me

Shalom Auslander’s beef with the Lord.

September 3, 2007
Trick of the Trade

Edmund White imagines Stephen Crane dreaming about a rent boy.

September 3, 2007
Tom Perrotta’s Sex-Ed Book

Reading Tom Perrotta’s new novel, The Abstinence Teacher, you might just imagine that you’ve picked up his last one, Little Children, by mistake.

September 3, 2007
Junot Díaz Karate-Chops His Writer’s Block

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was worth the long, long wait.

August 27, 2007
How Would Venus Williams Spend $1.4 Million?

We asked the Wimbledon ladies champ�the first ever to receive the same jackpot as her male counterpart�to blow her prize money in a New York shopping spree.