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Ten years after her death, a new book takes another look at the Princess of Wales. Author Tina Brown says Diana wanted the royal family to "reach out more" to the public, and in the aftermath of Diana's death, they finally did.
In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman celebrates the nearly forgotten familiar essay.
Kiran Desai's tragicomic novel spans two continents and three generations.
StoryCorps: Recording America
June 8, 2007 ·
As a young man in Wisconsin, Jim Krawczyk's favorite writer was J.D. Salinger. And in the late 1960s, Krawczyk decided to go on a roadtrip to meet his hero — in Cornish, the small New Hampshire town that the celebrated recluse calls home.
Health Care
June 5, 2007 ·
Funeral services were held this week for 25-year-old Gilberta Estrada of Texas, who is believed to have hanged herself and her four children while struggling with depression.
Interviews
June 5, 2007 ·
In his new biography of Sen. Hillary Clinton, writer Carl Bernstein claims to cut through what he calls the "self-generated myth" about the presidential candidate. Bernstein talks about the details of his new book, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
June 5, 2007 ·
As Phil Spector stands trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, his biographer is among the observers. Mick Brown, author of a new book about the legendary producer, interviewed Spector just weeks before Spector allegedly killed Lana Clarkson.
June 2, 2007 ·
The celebrated author of The English Patient weaves a tale of intersecting lives that takes readers from 1970s California to pre-World War I France in his fifth novel, Divisadero.
Non-Fiction
June 2, 2007 ·
Conn and Hal Iggulden worried that the old-fashioned skills they learned as boys would disappear in the age of DVDs and video games. So they wrote The Dangerous Book for Boys and filled it with ingredients to get boys off the computer and into the backyard.
June 1, 2007 ·
The Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez returns to his home village, Aracataca, Colombia, to mark his upcoming 80th birthday. It's the 40th anniversary of his masterwork, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Politics & Society
May 30, 2007 ·
The biography Richard M. Nixon, the latest installment in the American Presidents Series, portrays the 37th president as a paranoid leader who abused alcohol and drugs, had few friends and was obsessed with his image. Elizabeth Drew, the book's author, says she now believes Nixon to have been unfit.
Book Tour By Linda Kulman
May 30, 2007 ·
Jonathan Lethem's new book, You Don't Love Me Yet, is a spirited comedy about a struggling rock band in L.A. and its unlikely source of inspiration, the seductive ramblings of a complaint-hotline caller.
Books
May 30, 2007 ·
In 1957, Arthur Frommer's Europe on 5 Dollars a Day became an immediate best-seller and changed the way Americans viewed international travel.
Food
May 28, 2007 ·
Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer. It's time to get out your white clothes, unfurl the flag and break out the grill. The authors of Extreme Barbecue: Smokin' Rigs and 100 Real Good Recipes get us fired up for the grilling season.
May 25, 2007 ·
In a new book, Al Gore takes a harsh look at the media's fascination with flash over substance and a lack of courage among politicians of both parties.