- 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.