Nonfiction

• Nonfiction Reviews: 9/21/2009
  09/21/2009
  Starred reviews for: Superfusion by Zachary Karabell,  Blues and Chaos edited by Anthony DeCurtis, The Gift of Thanks by Margaret Visser, Beyond Repair by Charles Faddis, Jewish Terrorism in Israel by Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, The Black Book by Middleton A Harris with Morris Levitt et al., More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 9/14/2009
  09/14/2009
  Joyce Carol Oates reviews Dogtown by Elyssa East. And starred reviews for Yours Ever by Thomas Mallon, The Red Flag by David Priestland, The Paper Chase by Harold Evans, First as Tragedy, then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek, Abigail Adams by Woody Holton, Accompany Them with Singing by Thomas G. Long, Muslims in America by Edward E. Curtis. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 9/7/2009
  09/07/2009
  Starred reviews for Hannah Pakula, Terry Brighton, Kevin Michael Connolly, Paula Wolfert and Deepak Chopra. Plus: Martha Stewart, the RZA, Marc Spitz on David Bowie, Mike Vaccaro on the 1912 Red Sox, two new titles on Ayn Rand, and more. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 8/31/2009
  08/31/2009
  Starred reviews for: Martin Jacques's When China Rules the World;  Nancy Goldstone's The Lady Queen; Constantine Pleshakov's There Is No Freedom Without Bread!; Michael J. Sandel's Justice; Stephen Kotkin with Jan T. ross's Uncivil Society; and Joaquin Sorolla, edited by Jose Luis Diez and Javier Baron. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 8/24/2009
  08/24/2009
  Starred reviews for Paul Johnson's Churchill, Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp's Free for All, Eric Ives's Lady Jane Grey, Peter H. Wilson's The Thirty Years War, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 edited by Elizabeth Kolbert, and a Signature Review by Kirstin Downey of Linda Gordon's Dorothea Lange. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 8/17/2009
  08/17/2009
  Boxed review for Gordon S. Wood's Empire of Liberty. Starred reviews for  D.M. Giancreco's Hell to Pay; Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky;  David Chang and Peter Meehan's Momofuku;  Michael Psilakis's How to Roast Lamb; and Ruth Reichl's Gourmet Today. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 8/10/2009
  08/10/2009
  Starred reviews for Terry Teachout's Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong; Edmund White's memoir City Boy;  Mitchell Zukoff's Robert Altman;  A Man of Constant Sorrow by bluegrass/country legend Ralph Stanley with Eddie Dean; Bright-Sided, Barbara Ehrenreich's negative look at positive thinking,; and in Religion,   Harvey Cox's The Future of Faith. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 8/3/2009
  08/03/2009
  Starred reviews for James McManus's Cowboys Full, Timothy Egan's The Big Burn,  Hope Edelman's The Possibility of Everything,  david Cesarani's Major Farran's Hat, and in Lifestyle, Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali's Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 7/27/2009
  07/27/2009
  Stars for Robert Lacey's look inside Saudi Arabia; David FInkel's grunt's-eye view of the surge in Iraq; Jim Krane's portrait of Dubai; and Rowan Jacobsen's look at the eco-threats to an pbscire oyster. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 7/20/2009
  07/20/2009
  New titles from William Ferris, Jonathan Nossiter, Michael Chabon, Simon Louvish, Nancy Rappaport, Mark Frost, Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors, Bertrand M. Patenaude, Richard Polsky, Sam Beall, Harriet Reisen and elementary school teacher Mrs. Mimi. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 7/13/2009
  07/13/2009
  New biographies: Donald Spoto on Grace Kelly, Marc Eliot on Clint Eastwood, Frank McLynn on Marcus Aurelius, Veronica Buckley on Louis XIV's secret wife, Alan Hirshfeld on Archimedes, Wilborn Hampton on Horton Foote, and Carol Berkin on three Civil War wives (Theodore Dwight Weld's, Jefferson Davis's and Ulysses S. Grant's). Plus: John Farmer, Rescue Ink,  Augusten Burroughs, Haleh Esfandiari, David Byrne, Joan Ryan, Gesine Bullock-Prado, Morris Dickstein and more. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 7/6/2009
  07/06/2009
  This week's reviews include Donald Sull, Jason Epstein, Michael Gray, Jeffrey Marx, A.J. Jacobs, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Lauren Weber, Sam Tenenhaus, Joanna Greenfield, David L.Marcus and Mark Millhone. Also: cookbooks from Su-Mei Yu, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Anna Thomas and Terry Walters. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 6/29/2009
  06/29/2009
  Starred reviews for: Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World,  John Franklin's The Wolf in the Parlor, Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man, and The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 6/22/2009
  06/22/2009
  Stephen P. Cohen on diplomacy in the Mideast, Lacy K. Ford Jr. on the Old South politics of slavery, a mother-daughter travelogue from Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor, the LeBron James story illuminated by Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights), a biography of democracy by John Keane, and more. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 6/15/2009
  06/15/2009
  Starred reviews for: Leanda de Lisle's The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, Ned Sublette's The Year Before the Flood, David Lynch's A Divided Paradise, Chris Wickham's The Inheritance of Rome;  and in poetry, Wei Yung-wu's In Such Hard Times, Lisa Olstein's Lost Alphabet and Norma Cole's Where Shadows Will. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: 6/8/2009
  06/08/2009
  Terrorism: How to Respond Richard English . Oxford Univ. , $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-19-922998-7 English (Armed Struggle), a professor of politics at Belfast's Queen's University, applies lessons learned from the sectarian struggle in Northern Ireland to the broader issue of international terrorism in this provocative primer. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 6/1/2009
  06/01/2009
  Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans Ethan Brown . Holt , $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8893-9 On October 17, 2006, 28-year-old Iraq war veteran Zackery Bowen leapt to his death from a New Orleans hotel roof, leaving a suicide note directing police to the dismembered body of his girlfriend, Addie Hall. More
• Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/25/2009
  05/25/2009
  Starred reviews for Mike Dash’s The First Family, Leonard Levitt’s NYPD Confidential, Christopher Steiner’s $20 Per Gallon. Also, a review of John Keegan’s latest military history: The American Civil War, and two portraits of young Latinos and Latinas: Helen Thorpe’s Just Like Us and Timothy Black’s When a Heart Turns Rock Solid.    More
• Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/18/2009
  05/18/2009
  Starred reviews for: Justin Fox’s The Myth of the Rational Market; bestselling author Dick Lehr’s account of Boston cops and racism, The Fence, and Vicki Forman’s memoir of “premature motherhood,” This Lovely Life; plus Lifestyle reviews of cookbooks and parenting guides.           More
• Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/11/2009
  05/11/2009
  Starred reviews for Tracy Kidder’s Strength in What Remains and Patrick Radden Keefe’s The Snakehead; also reviews of a collection of essays by Leonard Michaels and Joe Scarborough’s The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise;  and three guides to "Caring for Our Elders—and Ourselves."   More
• « Previous   Next »