Newly Released Books
Volumes of short fiction often masquerade in novel’s clothing — the easier, the thinking goes, to sell them. This month brings four books that read like story collections, though only the muscularly...
View ArticleBiloxi Surprised by Isaac’s Rain
BILOXI, Miss. — As Hurricane Isaac carved a slow, relentless path north, attention Wednesday was focused largely on its effects on New Orleans. But just 80 miles to the east, the storm was delivering...
View ArticleMarketing Wine as a Respite From Women’s Many Roles
IN the 1970s, Miller High Life introduced the “It’s Miller Time” campaign with commercials featuring men working at harrowing professions, like aerial firefighter pilots and high voltage wire...
View ArticleBack to School: Were We Ever Away?
REMEMBER the big pre-Labor Day shopping excursion, the reunion with beloved classmates, the specter of newly minted bullies and the scent of pencils in the air? There was drama, emotion and heightened...
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View ArticleLeaving Home, but None of Its Comforts
I DON’T remember everything I took with me when I went to college, but do I know it all fit easily into the back seat of our family car. The twin-size sheets were new; nearly everything else (pillow,...
View ArticleReginald Bartholomew, Busy Diplomat, Dies at 76
Reginald Bartholomew, a senior diplomat and ambassador who served four presidents, negotiated for nuclear disarmament with the Soviet Union and for the preservation of American military bases in...
View ArticleScience fiction and fantasy books
Shadow Show All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury Edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle (William Morrow; 352 pages; $15.99 paperback) "Shadow Show" arrives soon after the passing of Ray...
View ArticleThe Twins Are Fine. The Parents Are Not.
Alex and Leslie Twisden, the central couple in Chase Novak’s “Breed,” lead a double life. So does Chase Novak. His name is a not even remotely secret pseudonym for Scott Spencer, the gently literary...
View ArticlePhilip Marlowe, Peerless Detective, Returns for an Encore
In his spare time, Philip Marlowe plays chess with the dead, working out problems from a book of historic games as though a living chess player might let him down. He reads the society page when he...
View ArticleAnthony Schulte, Publisher and Early Audiobook Proponent, Dies at 82
Anthony M. Schulte, a publishing executive who was an early proponent of audiobooks and among the first to tap the ready-made audience for books written by trusted television personalities like...
View ArticleMark O’Donnell, ‘Hairspray’ Writer, Dies at 58
Mark O’Donnell, who won a Tony Award in 2003 as co-author of the book for the Broadway musical “Hairspray” and was nominated for another in 2008 for “Cry-Baby,” died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 58....
View ArticleBlasphemy and the Law
NEW YORK — A central charge against the three members of the Pussy Riot punk-rock band who were recently sentenced to two years in prison was “inciting religious hatred.” This they are said to have...
View ArticlePotluck for the Eyeballs: A New Streaming-Movie Service
In the olden days, bargains added spice to life. You’d get a free toaster with a new bank account, or a collectible drinking glass with a gas fill-up. Old-timers even claim that at one time, you got...
View ArticleSoaked
THESE days, New York hotels are less about lodgings than being one-stop entertainment Goliaths. With Soaked, a skyscraping outdoor bar that opened in July, the Mondrian SoHo joins the Standard, Dream...
View ArticleTop-Seeded Azarenka Rolls Into Third Round
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus continued the trend of top-seeded players having little trouble in early matches at the United States Open, storming through her match Wednesday afternoon against Kirsten...
View ArticleAn Online Retailer Gets Its Own Makeover
SHOPBOP, the online powerhouse of contemporary fashion, has never gone in for bells and whistles. The Collection: A New Fashion App for the iPad A one-stop destination for Times fashion coverage and...
View ArticleBargain Seekers Broaden Manhattan’s Silicon Alley
A decade ago, in the dot-com boom, technology companies flocked to the neighborhoods along Broadway in Manhattan, with most ending up south of an unofficial cutoff of 23rd Street. Related For Tech...
View ArticleInsomnia for Beginners
It starts with pregnancy, and it just doesn’t stop. Expectant women can’t sleep, and their bedmates probably can’t either. New parents can’t sleep. Newborns can’t sleep. Even young children, once...
View ArticleTheyâll do anything to have a baby
Chase Novakâs diabolically entertaining new novel recalls Rosemaryâs Baby. In it, a well-heeled Manhattan couple conceive a child in fraught circumstances. Result: horror. But instead of a baby...
View ArticleChase Novak’s ‘Breed’: Diabolically entertaining horror novel
I can’t help thinking of this diabolically entertaining novel as “Rosemary’s Baby’s Parents.” Not that Rosemary Woodhousehas been appropriated by the author, Chase Novak. But the basic situation is...
View ArticleNot the Death, but the Details
When John Banville inaugurated his pseudonymous series of Benjamin Black books in 2007 with “Christine Falls,” this esteemed author seemed to have taken an iffy turn. The Banville name would be...
View ArticleA Theater Class Where All Are Able
MILLBURN, N.J. — “I’m a little scared,” confessed one of the children in the black-box theater at the Paper Mill Playhouse here on a recent Friday. Related Times Topics: New Jersey Arts | New Jersey...
View ArticleStarting Early, and Young
DR. AMI SHAH NAGARAJAN, 38, a specialist in integrative medicine who lives in Manhattan, estimates that she spends $150 a month on Mustela and California Baby products for her 3-year-old twins. “I...
View ArticleAlice Brooks, Samuel Spencer
Alice Brooks and Samuel Osborn Spencer were married Saturday at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Portland, Me. The Very Rev. Benjamin Shambaugh, an Episcopal priest and the dean of the cathedral,...
View ArticleFor Giants’ Tuck, a Push for Reading Starts at Home
FORT LEE, N.J. — Jayce Tuck is a typical 2-year-old. He is precious and precocious, loves chasing a soccer ball in the backyard and has an abiding passion for “cooking,” which recently meant standing...
View ArticleShe Who Once Improvised at the Drop of a Cue Card
In “Classic Uggams,” her bright, spunky new show at 54 Below, Leslie Uggams recalls what happened several years ago when she flubbed the lyrics to “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over,” a song she barely...
View ArticleNo Rest for the Wicked, Undead or Ghoulish
SUMMER is the time for telling ghost stories around the campfire. But with campfires in Manhattan a no-no, what’s a horror fan to do? Luckily, this summer New York is bursting — like blood from a...
View ArticleSummit Entertainment Acquires “Breed”
Summit Entertainment continues it’s investment in genre films with the acquisition of Breed, a recently published novel from Scott Spencer (under the pseudonym...
View ArticleSummit Entertainment Sets Writer/Director Burr Steers for BREED Adaptation;...
Summit Entertainment has set Burr Steers (Charlie St. Cloud) to write and direct an adaptation of horror-thriller novel, Breed. Written by Scott Spencer (Endless Love) under the pseudonym of Chase...
View ArticleSummit looks for a new "Breed" of fertility horror
Summit Entertainment is taking on Chase Novak's novel Breed, the story of married couple Alex and Leslie Twisden, wanting for a child, who undergo...
View ArticleUpdating Mann’s Status From Stuffy to Chatty
LÜBECK, Germany — The latest sensation from the literary lion Thomas Mann is more than a century old and runs over 500 characters, not pages, long. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for...
View ArticleA Living Presence, Not on Disc
Since the pianist Radu Lupu has not made a new album since the 1990s, his record label has been forced to peddle endless reissues and repackagings of his visionary takes on the German and Austrian...
View ArticlePork Buns Steamed in Bluster
Eddie Huang’s first book, a memoir, is titled “Fresh Off the Boat,” and the word to emphasize is “fresh.” Mr. Huang has a mouth on him. Enlarge This Image Jake Guevara/The New York Times FRESH OFF THE...
View ArticleIn Cannibal Case, Officer’s Wife Testifies About a Chilling Discovery
One day last September, the wife of a New York City police officer opened her laptop computer and discovered that her husband had used it to visit a fetish Web site on the Internet. She said she went...
View ArticleIn Cannibal Case, Deliberations Go On
The jury in the trial of Gilberto Valle, the New York police officer accused of plotting to kidnap, rape and cannibalize women, was sent home on Friday after competing its first full day of...
View ArticleAutistic Twins Find a Release in Running
BETHPAGE, N.Y. — Alex and Jamie Schneider run seemingly on instinct, saying nothing and drifting into a cone of concentration. They are autistic 22-year-old identical twins from Long Island whose...
View ArticleMarried With Children, a Dedication That Held It All Together
Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more. Send us your story and photos through our submission form. Enlarge This Image After 32 years,...
View ArticleWhat the Tide Brought In
Nao was easy. The voice of the quirky, troubled 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl whose words begin “A Tale for the Time Being,” Ruth Ozeki’s new novel, came to the author as she was immersed in a...
View ArticleBarrage of Beef, Argentine Style
Sometimes disappointments lead to happy accidents. By any measure, a long-anticipated fishing trip to the Iberá Marshes in Argentina was a bust. The week before we arrived in February, a biblical...
View ArticleJames Fogle, Author of ‘Drugstore Cowboy,’ Dies at 75
James Fogle, a thief and addict who committed real crimes, then turned them into fiction in his novel “Drugstore Cowboy,” which became an acclaimed film, died Thursday in the infirmary ward of the...
View ArticleEwald-Heinrich von Kleist, Anti-Hitler Plotter, Dies at 90
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, believed to be the last surviving member of an elaborate plot to kill Adolf Hitler during World War II, died on Friday at his home in Munich. He was 90. Enlarge This Image...
View ArticleAuthor John Banville Talks About Reviving Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments At a Writers Bloc forum, the Man Booker-winning novelist talked about penning a new tale involving the classic pulp detective. What do Benjamin Black, Irish Detective...
View ArticleABC Introduces 12 New Series for Next Season
The broadcast networks have ordered what is surely a record number of new series for the next television season, including ABC’s announcement on Friday of a long list of programs. Add to Portfolio...
View ArticleEmpty Pages in a Show Filled With Words
Ed Ruscha has never been particularly precious about print. For him books — even his own artist’s books — have always been disposable. His breakout work, “Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations,” was a photo...
View ArticleJudge Criticizes M.T.A.’s Delay in Ad Case
Impatience with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a rich New York City tradition, uniting generations of riders in moments of quiet frustration and muffled profanity. Enlarge This Image The...
View ArticleDavid Rakoff, Mordantly Funny Essayist and Actor, Dies at 47
David Rakoff, a prizewinning humorist whose mordant, neurotic essays examined everything from his surreal stint portraying Sigmund Freud in a Christmastime shop-window display to his all-too-real...
View ArticleHunting for a Father in an Intellectual Jungle
“What really knocks me out,” Holden Caulfield said, “is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the...
View ArticleStores, and More, for Breast-Feeding Moms
LOS ANGELES Enlarge This Image Monica Almeida/The New York Times Wendy Haldeman taught a breast-feeding class at the Pump Station and Nurtury, a resource center and baby products shop in Santa Monica,...
View ArticleA Tough New Test Spurs Protest and Tears
Students at the Hostos-Lincoln Academy in the Bronx blamed the English exams for making them anxious and sick. Teachers at Public School 152 in Manhattan said they had never seen so many blank stares....
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