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Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book
Oversized books
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Books, Dec. 3, 2010
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
Bernard DeVoto
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Books, Dec. 3, 2010
100 Dresses: The Costume Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Harold Koda
Reviewed by Anne Harris, Books, Dec. 3, 2010
The Essential 'New York Times' Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century
Need help making that Black Friday shopping list? Here's a selection of great cookbook ideas with something to delight any foodie you know.
Reviewed by Kate Thornberry, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
What to Cook & How To Cook It
Jane Hornby
Reviewed by Mick Vann, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
The Cookbook Collector: A Novel
Allegra Goodman
Reviewed by MM Pack, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Good Eats 2: The Middle Years
Alton Brown
Reviewed by Claudia Alarcón, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Growing Tasty Tropical Plants: In Any Home, Anywhere.
Laurelynn & Byron Martin
Reviewed by Claudia Alarcón, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Soups + Sides
Catherine Walthers
Reviewed by Kate Thornberry, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies
Alice Medrich
Reviewed by Virginia B. Wood, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Bake!: Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking
Nick Malgieri
Reviewed by Monica Riese, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Seasonal Fruit Desserts: From Orchard, Farm, and Market
Deborah Madison
Reviewed by Rachel Feit, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France
Joan Nathan
Reviewed by Rachel Feit, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Living Gluten and Dairy-Free With French Gourmet Food
Alain Braux
Reviewed by Cindy Widner, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Thai Street Food
David Thompson
Reviewed by Mick Vann, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Let Me Tell You About Wine: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Wine/Oldman's Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine's Usual Suspects
Oz Clarke and Mark Oldman
Reviewed by Wes Marshall, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Exley: A Novel
This is a book that charms without seeming to try
Reviewed by Cindy Widner, Books, Nov. 19, 2010
Bandit Love
Good wine and thugs, in translation
Reviewed by Katherine Smith, Books, Nov. 19, 2010
I Shall Wear Midnight
In this fourth Tiffany Aching novel, the young witch becomes a woman
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Oct. 29, 2010
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
This ingenious debut novel is set in a time-skipping future
Reviewed by Audra Schroeder, Books, Oct. 29, 2010
The Widower's Tale: A Novel
A funny and subtle portrait of a family negotiating continuing crises from National Book Award-winner Julia Glass
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Books, Oct. 8, 2010
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
Reissue of Netherland author Joseph O'Neill's inquiry into his grandfathers' pasts
Reviewed by Jay Trachtenberg, Books, Oct. 8, 2010
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Memphis native Sides is a great storyteller, and Hellhound often reads more like historical fiction than nonfiction
Reviewed by Nick Barbaro, Books, Oct. 1, 2010
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
For the Comanche history novice, this is an entertaining and easy-to-read starting point, but not a very intellectually strenuous one
Reviewed by Ed Baker, Books, Oct. 1, 2010
The Lady Matador's Hotel: A Novel
In this beautifully written short novel, García revisits the theme of cultural identity that arises from the isolation and dislocation from one's homeland
Reviewed by Jay Trachtenberg, Books, Sep. 17, 2010
A Curable Romantic: A Novel
A twice-married virgin wanders sexually liberated Vienna and collides with – who else? – Freud
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Books, Sep. 17, 2010
Zero History
The onetime king of modern sci-fi is becoming less Ray Bradbury and more John le Carré
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Sep. 10, 2010
To Hell With Cronjé
What makes this novel and its fresh English-language publication so timely is that its themes have become uncomfortably familiar
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Sep. 10, 2010
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
James Baldwin, the oracular writer and spectacular wordsmith of mid-20th century America, is revivified in this new collection
Reviewed by Marjorie Baumgarten, Books, Aug. 20, 2010
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
As important a book in its own way as François Truffaut's Hitchcock, Listen to the Echoes compiles dozens of hours of interviews Bradbury's biographer has conducted over the past several decades
Reviewed by Marc Savlov, Books, Aug. 20, 2010
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
A funny and spine-shivering satire of the not-too-distant future
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Books, Aug. 13, 2010
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
More like the Cougar Queen: Historian Alison Weir's latest novel is a bodice-ripper
Reviewed by Margaret Moser, Books, Aug. 13, 2010
The Thieves of Manhattan
Take this publishing industry satire to the beach, but don't turn your brain off just yet
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Books, Aug. 6, 2010
Kings of the Earth
A farming family tragedy about brothers – and a brother's keeper
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Aug. 6, 2010
Sick City
This L.A. noir is fearless about naming, shaming, and spoofing brand-name burn-outs
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Jul. 23, 2010
Red Rain
Greed, muck, and strife at a Hudson River port in 1864
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Jul. 23, 2010
Role Models
In this collection of prose portraits of some of his cultural heroes, the legendary filmmaker regularly reveals more about himself than his subjects
Reviewed by Marjorie Baumgarten, Screens, Jul. 9, 2010
Gasoline
This Catalan novel, originally published in 1983, skewers New York's art scene in the Eighties
Reviewed by Jay Trachtenberg, Books, Jul. 9, 2010
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
By establishing the facts of evolution – the where, when, why, and how of human, animal, and plant genetic selection, survival, and extinction – Wells proves that we are pretty much done with theories
Reviewed by Ed Baker, Books, Jul. 9, 2010
Killer Kaiju Monsters: Strange Beasts of Japanese Film
This foldout design book is both ridiculously fun and the perfect primer for kids or adults curious about Japan's giant monsters
