"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all."
—Lavina Goodell Junior editor, Harper's Bazaar
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A Writer’s Long Journey to Trace the Great Migration
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:00:07 GMT
“The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson’s book about the Great Migration of blacks in America, took 15 years and much hands-on research to finish.
 
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Books of The Times: At This School, Misfits Make Up the Student Body
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:00:03 GMT
“Skippy Dies” by Paul Murray has a lot on its mind: M-theory, lost youth, Irish history and parallel dimensions, not to mention sex, drugs and schoolboy humor.
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Currents | Q&A: The Father of Modern Architectural Minimalism
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:30:10 GMT
Questions for the British architect John Pawson, who has a new monograph out next month.
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Elizabeth Jenkins, Woman of Letters, Dies at 104
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:56:37 GMT
In novels and biographies, Ms. Jenkins looked at lives with a psychological dimension.
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Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:26:51 GMT
Stephen Hawking’s pop-science book about the origins of our universe got attention for a passage about God.
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Books of The Times: How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:46:07 GMT
In “Vida,” Patricia Engel’s world is caught between Colombia and the United States, and truly at home in neither.
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Beach Reads Finished, It’s Time for the Big Books
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:10:11 GMT
Publishing’s fall schedule includes books by Bob Woodward, Keith Richards, George W. Bush and Jon Stewart.
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Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:23:20 GMT
The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s.
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Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man’s Bucolic Idyll
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:04 GMT
Existential concepts like authenticity and selfhood, and people’s ability or inability to apprehend reality, lie at the heart of Tom McCarthy’s disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel.
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Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:41:11 GMT
A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.
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Book Sets Off Immigration Debate in Germany
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:30:57 GMT
Thilo Sarrazin, a former official who has been criticized as espousing racist views, has set off a discussion about Germany’s immigration policy.
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Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:36:52 GMT
Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” sheds little light on his political vision or on why he took Britain to war against Iraq.
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Books of The Times: Young Man Seeks Poetry in World War II’s Ruins
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:30:04 GMT
A British author links his grandfather’s World War II bombing missions to the war poetry of the time.
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Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:30:03 GMT
After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.
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Books of The Times: Preppily Perplexed? A New Guidebook
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:47:21 GMT
“True Prep,” Lisa Birnbach’s successor to “The Official Preppy Handbook,” addresses the adult world of funerals and second marriages and the post-1980 world of cellphones, the Internet and synthetic fleece.
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