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Nathaniel Rich Wrote About Hurricane Sandy Before It Hit

In 2007, the writer began work on a project about a massive hurricane hitting New York City. Five years later, just as he put the final edits on Odds Against Tomorrow--published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux earlier this month--Hurricane Sandy descended on the city. Over a recent cup of coffee in Tur ... More >>

FULL MOON

The lycans of 'Hemlock 
Grove' get unleashed

Picture This: Our 5 Can't Miss Book Events Get Graphic

Tamara Shopsin Spoonbill & Sugartown Wednesday, 7:30pm, Free Shopsin's new memoir is arranged the way any harried artist's journal might be--in fragments, drawings, photographs, and asides--and surprisingly all the more cohesive for it. Mumbai New York Scranton (Scribner) highlights the underlying c ... More >>

Read All About It: Glowing Cats, Prince, and This Week's 5 Book Events

Kristopher Jansma PowerHouse Arena Thursday, 8 p.m., free Jansma, a New Jersey native and first-time novelist, seems to have constructed his debut around a pretty familiar and eye-twitchingly postmodern concept: namely, the curious propensity of writers to devote a whole lot more time to identifying ... More >>

Rebellious Reads: 5 Book Events You Don't Want To Miss

"Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic" The National Arts Club Mar. 13, 6:30, Free If you actually expend thought on something like the excessive (still developing) ado over Anne Hathaway's Oscar dress, it's true that Katherine Hepburn begins to appear very rebellious indeed. Today the film legend might emb ... More >>

Bon Voyage: Our Five Book Events Worth the Trip

Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson The Strand Tonight, 7pm, $10 Marriage is a tricky subject in film. This is probably because unlike, say, the central themes of Citizen Kane or many of the Terminators, the "marriage movie" concerns a topic that's close to what many viewers either have, or will experie ... More >>

Q&A: Michelle Orange on Running For Your Life

Reading Michelle Orange is like having a moving, one-sided conversation with your best friend if your best friend was feeling particularly astute that day. In This Is Running For Your Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), her ambitious first collection of essays, she mulls over top-shelf concepts like m ... More >>

Book It: Our Five Can't-Miss Readings This Week

Dina Nayeri & Julia Fierro Book Court Tonight, 7pm, Free When one considers radical literature, old issues of Life magazine with Molly Ringwald and Barbara Streisand on the cover might not immediately come to mind. But for the 11-year-old twin sisters who are the protagonists of Dina Nayeri's new no ... More >>

Our Favorite Books of 2012

Voice writers offer their picks from the year

Reading Around: Absurd Science Fiction in Translation and the Ongoing Triumph of Bach

Books by Andri Snær Magnason, Wendy Guerra, Rosa Montera, and Paul Elie

Q&A: Robert Anasi on The Last Bohemia, Gentrification, and Williamsburg in the '90s

Sexy Jeffrey Eugenides Billboard: Mystery Solved

DETECTIVE WORK

Something new for Roberto Bolaño fans to cheer about

Fall Guide: George Packer Chronicles a Turbulent 21st Century

Summer Guide: Lawrence Osbourne Pursues Redeemable Vulgarity in Bangkok Days

Spring Guide: Wells Tower Offers A Strange Way To Squeeze A Dog

The dark menagerie of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

A Great Poetic Twosome: The Elizabeth Bishop-Robert Lowell Letters

Good thing Carl Sandburg's not around to read them. FSG publishes the complete correspondence.

Still 'A Long Way' From Answers About Ishmael Beah Book

Boy Soldier of Fortune

A celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces

In the Dark

Summer Books: That's Not Fair

As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and bro.

Top Shelf

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2006

VLS Bestsellers

A Half-Century Later, Ginsberg's Epic Poem Still Roars

Jack Anderson: An Appreciation

The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

Top Shelf 2005

Our 25 favorite books of the year—from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists

'Voice' on Literature

Reviews of the last 50 years

The Original of Lolita

Fifty years after that triple trip of the tongue, Nabokov's nymphet is as mesmerizing as ever

Take Me Out to the Bar, After the Ball Game of Course

VLS Bestsellers List

Books

Our 27 favorite books of the year

Letters

Hot Type

VLS Beach Reads: Detectives, drugs, denim, and an unusually high number of birds

New York Books

Urban Legends

Satisfying a Zeta Jones

Brainiacs Around the World Apply Themselves to the Mathematical Challenge That Dared Not Speak Its Name—Until Now!

Chemical Brothers

••• Jenny Uglow Shines a Light on the Lunar Men

Books

Out Through the Inbox

A New Memoir by Tamim Ansary, Whose Impassioned E-Mail for Afghanistan Catapulted Him Into Celebrity

Books

Renovated Loft in Former Textile Factory

Midsummer Night’s Read

Beach Fare with an Edge

Folking Around

Reading Rainbow

The Season's Topics Cover the Spectrum

The Execution of Black Children

All the Children Had to Watch

Mind Body Spirit: Briefs

Condécor

Voice Authors

The Holocaust Without Guilt

5000 UN Soldiers Could Have Ended It

The Triumph of Evil

Rwanda overflowed with corpses

A Holocaust We Could Have Stopped

'I Saw My Father Cut to Pieces'