Books If the name Israel means "wrestles with God," then America must be Hebrew for "wrestles with the Middle East." American-Israeli historian Michael B. Oren's new book, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America ... More
Power, Faith, and Fantasy
In the beginning, for America, was the Middle East.
Books If the name Israel means "wrestles with God," then America must be Hebrew for "wrestles with the Middle East." American-Israeli historian Michael B. Oren's new book, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America ... More
Sacred Games
Indian novelist Vikram Chandra shows the West how to write a crime thriller.
Books If there is any justice in the book-publishing world, Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games (HarperCollins, 916 pages, $27.95) deserves to become a million-copy bestseller, alongside the next Harry Potter nov ... More
Thunderstruck
Popular historian Erik Larson can't make lightning strike twice.
Books Seattle author Erik Larson's latest nonfiction potboiler, Thunderstruck (Crown, 463 pages, $25.95), tries to duplicate the winning formula of his New York Times bestseller The Devil in the White City. ... More
Fleeing Fundamentalism
A desperate housewife lashes out at conservative Christianity.
Books Readers hungry for a rousing indictment of America's religious right on the eve of the fall elections won't find it in Carlene Cross' new memoir, Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Fai ... More
A Sense Of The World
A tour de force biography of a man who led the way in every sense but sight.
Books In his first book, McSweeney's contributor Jason Roberts has achieved something that more veteran biographers like Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough never bother to attempt: take a near-forgot ... More
Rough Crossings: Britain, The Slaves, And The American Revolution
Historian Simon Schama drowns the American Revolution.
Books Simon Schama is best known to American audiences as the snarky British host of the BBC's epic 15-part series A History of Britain. But the expatriate professor of art history at Columbia University is ... More
American Theocracy and The Secret Way To War
Two new books call out more examples of the Bush White House's perfidy.
Books There is no shortage of books deriding the rank deceit, moral bankruptcy and gross incompetence of the Bush administration. But to appreciate fully how far George W. Bush has fallen in the eyes of a v ... More
The Madonnas Of Leningrad
Seattle writer largely misses attempt at true radiance.
Books The Siege of Leningrad is beyond the comprehension of 21st-century Americans, who have never known the horrors of war on their home soil. In a single, protracted struggle spanning two and a half years ... More
A Fool's Gold
Portland lawyer pens a colorful, Oregon-based caper, proving truth is stranger than fiction.
Books A FOOL'S GOLD By Bill Merritt (Bloomsbury, 280 pages, $23.95)Oprah Winfrey goofed when she picked James Frey's A Million Little Pieces for her book club. If she'd wanted to feature a true-crime "memoi ... More
Ultimate sacrifice
Books Ultimate sacrificeBy Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann (Carroll & Graf, 904 pages, $33)Progressive Portland radio talk-show host Thom Hartmann has co-authored the ne plus ultra of conspiracy books abou ... More
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