Loss and Endurance
Rohinton Mistry's tragic and trimphant vision
Book Review
A Grand Contrivance
Together, the Easy Rawlins mysteries constitute a sprawling novel of manners about black Los Angeles in the mid twentieth century
Fatal Attraction
Robert Caro does a lot of heavy breathing and grasping at the reader's lapels in his books on LBJ.
Men of Letters
The decline of "amateur journalism"
As English as God
Ferdinand Mount brilliantly delineates social class
The Nazis' Last Stand
World War II's ferocious and surreal conclusion on the Eastern Front
New & Noteworthy
Fiction set in turn-of-the-century England and in the Australian bush; ghosts in the darkroom
Playing Nick Carraway
A new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is less a book than a TV-movie script
A Man of Permanent Contradictions
The paradox underlying all of Kipling's work is a horror of democracy combined with an exaltation of the common man
What Price Valor?
Bravura displays of reproductive technology may shortchange the children