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The Saturday Profile: Japanese Author Guides Women to Dignity, but Others See Dullness Norimitsu Onishi (Books)Mariko Bandos book, The Dignity of a Woman, has become one of Japans biggest best sellers in decades, but critics say it reinforces the view that women should be subservient. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal Allen Salkin (Books)A recent publishing agreement is lucrative and shocking. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Possessed: What Moral Turpitude Looks Like David Colman (Books)A dandy is blackballed by Customs, thanks in part to a tall hat. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Footsteps | Milan Kunderas Prague: Trumping the Unbearable Darkness of History Nicholas Kulish (Books)A novel set in 1968 puts current-day Prague in a new perspective. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
A Veteran MAD Man Remains in the Fold Neil Genzlinger (Books)For more than 40 years, a sly course in American history, courtesy of the master of the fold-in. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74 Charles Mcgrath (Books)Mr. Fagles was a renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil became unlikely best sellers. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: The Lemur Benjamin Black (Books)Chapter 12: Here was nothing more Terri Taylor could give John Glass beyond the name Charles Varriker, which kept cropping up with interesting regularity. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Nonfiction Chronicle Tara Mckelvey (Books)Reviews of new nonfiction by Terese Svoboda, Christina Binkley, Chandler Burr and Robert S. Bennett. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Essay: Its Not You, Its Your Books Rachel Donadio (Books)Among the bookish, even casual literary references can turn into romantic deal breakers. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Guess Whos Coming to Power Raymond Bonner (Books)China and the European Union have joined the United States as global players, says a young foreign-policy scholar. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
The War on Error Barry Gewen (Books)Charles Ferguson analyzes Americas missteps in Iraq. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Death in the Pacific Evan Thomas (Books)Max Hastings shows how Japanese madness met American ruthlessness in the final year of World War II. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Climb Every Mountain Emma Brockes (Books)As depicted in a memoir and a biography, Julie Andrewss life was not always sunny. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Sexual Advances Pamela Paul (Books)Mary Roach investigates comprehensively the latest in sex research. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Eyes Wide Open Reviewed by Liesl Schillinger (Books)Tobias Wolffs stories are alert for moments of revelation. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
In Memoriam David Orr (Books)Mary Jo Bangs new poems grapple with the death of her son. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
She, Robot Susann Cokal (Books)Jeanette Wintersons novel imagines a post-apocalyptic future. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Uncivil Action Steven Brill (Books)John Grisham sticks with his formula in his latest legal thriller, while making an important point about how the justice system is threatened by big-money gutter politics. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Book Lovers Ask, Whats Seattles Secret? Julie Bick (Books)Though the big publishing houses are still in New York, the Seattle area is home to Amazon, Starbucks and Costco, companies that increasingly influence what America reads. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Samuel J. Hamrick, Who Wrote as W. T. Tyler, Dies at 78 Stuart Lavietes (Books)Mr. Hamrick was a former officer in the Foreign Service who, under the pseudonym W. T. Tyler, wrote spy novels about the adventures of burnt-out cases. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Books of The Times: The Amazing Adventures of the Midcentury Comic Book Trade Janet Maslin (Books)The Ten-Cent Plague is the third book by David Hajdu to take a subject suitable for fans hagiography and turn it into something of much wider interest. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Books of The Times: Why Knowledge and Logic Are Political Dirty Words Michiko Kakutani (Books)There are few subjects more timely than the one tackled by Susan Jacoby in her new book. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
A $100 Million Donation to the N.Y. Public Library Robin Pogrebin (Books)The librarys venerable lion-guarded building is to be renamed for the financier Stephen A. Schwarzman. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Western Authors Celebrate a Master Felicity Barringer (Books)A weekend conference in California dedicated to Wallace Stegner was partly a discussion of the authors works and partly an homage to Stegner by writers he influenced. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: The Lemur Benjamin Black (Books)Chapter 9: They had been in bed together all afternoon, Glass and his girl, and now at evening he was sprawled pashalike in his undershorts against a bank of pillows. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Crime: Dirty Work Marilyn Stasio (Books)Denise Minas novel features a journalist with a talent for articulating nationwide annoyances. Also reviewed: New crime novels by Will Lavender, Lawrence Goldstone and Robert B. Parker. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Essay: Amis and Islam Rachel Donadio (Books)Martin Amiss angry, off-the-cuff comments about Islam set off an old-fashioned literary donnybrook in Britain. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Archive: Book Review Podcast (Books)This week: Antonio Skrmeta, author of The Dancer and the Thief; Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles; Rachel Donadio on Martin Amis; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Bob Harris is the host. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
The Medium and the Message James Poniewozik (Books)In his second novel, the book-cover designer Chip Kidd nurses the tension between word and image. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Wok On Jane And Michael Stern (Books)Jennifer 8. Lees obsession with Chinese food takes her on a three-year, 23-country odyssey. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Birder of Paradise Robert Sullivan (Books)Jonathan Rosen takes a poetic, philosophical approach to his favorite outdoor activity. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Ego Check James Parker (Books)A TV journalist wounded by his sons scathing book flees to Italy, and into his own head, to brood. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Formalities James Longenbach (Books)Mary Jo Salters elegant poetry can hide eviscerating questions. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Sexual Healing Tom Bissell (Books)In Scott Spencers new novel, a cuckolded writer embarks on a therapeutic assignment: a sex-tour expos. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
The Fatalist Thomas Mallon (Books)Four early works of fiction from the Holocaust victim Irne Nmirovsky. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Hormones, Genes and the Corner Office Emily Bazelon (Books)Though girls and women are triumphing in the classroom, men still largely rule the workplace. Susan Pinker asks why. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
When He Was 17 Scott Turow (Books)This sequel to Tony Earleys first novel, Jim the Boy, follows its protagonist into adulthood while deploying a deceptively simple strategy: take the storytelling style of childrens literature and bend it to adult themes. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Books of The Times: Black and White and Graphic All Over: A 1930s Tale of Race, Passing and Pain George Gene Gustines (Books)The inspiration for Incognegro comes from the personal and professional experience of its writer, Mat Johnson. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Books of The Times: A Kaleidoscopic Perspective on a Murder, and Dreams Lost and Found Michiko Kakutani (Books)In his latest novel, Lush Life, Richard Price puts his myriad gifts together to create his most powerful and galvanic work yet. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
A Debunker on the Road to World War II Charles Mcgrath (Books)Human Smoke is an unusual book even for Nicholson Baker, whose career has unspooled in a way as unpredictable as one of his fastidiously meandering sentences. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Experimenting in Bed When Not After Vampires George Gene Gustines (Books)In a new issue of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book series Buffy sleeps with a fellow slayer. And, oh yeah, shes a woman. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Books of The Times: A Game Where Resources Dwindle and Partners Shift William Grimes (Books)In this sweeping, often audacious survey of contemporary geopolitics, Parag Khanna argues that the United States, the European Union and China are imperial powers busy reshaping the globe to suit their interests. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
George Fredrickson, 73, Historian, Dies Douglas Martin (Books)Mr. Fredrickson cast new light on the study of race and helped define the field of comparative history with a penetrating examination of racial relations in the United States and South Africa. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Books of The Times: Heard the One About the Farmers Ethanol? William Grimes (Books)Robert Bryce mounts a savage attack on the concept of energy independence and the most popular technologies currently being promoted to achieve it. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: The Lemur Benjamin Black (Books)Chapter 8: They arranged to meet by the boathouse in Central Park. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
William F. Buckley Jr., 82, Dies; Sesquipedalian Spark of Right Douglas Martin (Books)Mr. Buckley marshaled polysyllabic exuberance and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center of American political discourse. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Essay: I Write in Brooklyn. Get Over It. Colson Whitehead (Books)Google brooklyn writer and youll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Archive: Book Review Podcast (Books)This week: Antonio Skrmeta, author of The Dancer and the Thief; Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles; Rachel Donadio on Martin Amis; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Bob Harris is the host. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Me and My Shadow Liesl Schillinger (Books)The protagonist of Charles Baxters new book is haunted by a man who appropriates parts of his identity. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
He Drew Great Mud David Michaelis (Books)The soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin helped Americans understand what World War II was really like. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
What Would Reagan Do? Jacob Heilbrunn (Books)President Bush sought to emulate Ronald Reagan. Too bad he failed. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
In Search of Bush Alan Brinkley (Books)Jacob Weisberg argues that George W. Bushs presidency has been driven by his psychological needs. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Dark Art James Campbell (Books)In Stephen Kings new novel, a man recuperating in the Florida Keys begins to paint, with sinister results. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
The End of Jihad Patrick Cockburn (Books)Robin Wright argues that there is a budding culture of change in the Middle East and she sets out to document it in this fluent and intelligent book about the future of the region. 09PM Mar 07, 2008