Linda Amster, Editor, New York Times, Author, Joan Nathan, Foreword by William Morrow Cookbooks $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-688-15590-2
Passover is celebrated at the table with ritual words and food; this serious new collection does justice to both. And as Amster, a regular contributor to the New York Times food pages, points out, there's another tradition associated with Passover....
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Richard Bernstein, Author, New York Times, Author, Richard Bernstein, Afterword by , foreword by Howell Raines. Holt/Times $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7240-2
Veteran Times
reporter and book critic Bernstein has drawn on the newspaper's staff reporting of the terrible events of September 11 to create an account that stands out for its poignancy and humanity. Focusing on the personal—the victims,
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New York Times, Author, Richard Flaste, Editor Crown Publishers $24.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1880-9
This candy-box assortment of some 100 short articles and accompanying sidebars and diagrams selected from ``Science Times,'' a weekly feature of the New York Times , fails to deliver the comprehensiveness promised by the title. Organized under seven
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Edited by Tina Jordan with Noor Qasim. Clarkson Potter, $50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-23461-7
NYTBR editor Jordan and editing fellow Qasim collect the Book Review’s hits from more than 6,000 issues in this meticulously crafted celebration of the written word. The newspaper’s foray into covering literary news began on Sept. 18, 1851, though...
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New York Times, Author, Brent Bowers, Editor, Deidre Leipziger, Editor Times Books $16 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6742-2
New York Times editors Brent Bowers and Deidre Leipziger have compiled articles written by the paper's reporters under 10 sections pertaining to key business issues. Each chapter or case study in The New York Times Management Reader: Hot Ideas...
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New York Times, Author, Jane E. Brody, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $27.5 (496p) ISBN 978-0-8129-2858-7
In an attempt to present the latest scientific information and make sense of often confusing research findings, editor Wade has selected over 100 recent (since January 1993) articles by New York Times reporters and arranged them into broad...
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New York Times, Author, Correspondents of the New York Times, Author, Joseph Lelyveld, Introduction by Times Books $27.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6740-8
In his introduction to this expansive book on the complexity of contemporary race relations, Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of the New York Times, notes that he urged his correspondents to ""go deep"" beyond the headlines with their research and "
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Unlike many assemblages of previously published works, this collection of 41 essays from the New York Times's "Writers on Writing" column is more than the sum of its parts. Just as Times
culture editor Darnton hoped when he devised the...
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New York Times, Author, Mitchel Levitas, Author, Staff of the New York Times, Author Scholastic Reference $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-439-48803-7
As September approaches, a crop of titles reaches out to young readers. A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath, Young Readers Edition, edited by Mitchel Levitas, photos edited by Nancy Lee and Lonnie Schlein, with an ...
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New York Times, Author, The Staff of the New York Times, Author, Robert B. Semple, Editor , intro. by Tom Wicker. St. Martin's $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-32161-1
On the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, the New York Times is republishing all of its coverage from November 22, the day Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy, to November 25, the day of the president's funeral. Readers who...
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The Staff of the New York Times, Author, New York Times, Author, Staff O The Staff of the New York Times, Author St. Martin's Griffin $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-31233-6
Although The New York Times isn't known for publishing sweet human interest stories, the paper does in fact report on plenty of soft subjects: there are stories about the food editor who befriends a chicken in his Queens, NY backyard, the five-year-o
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