Adam Begley
Neighborhood White Boy Stalks Billion-Footed Beast
Who is Eddie Hayes?
If you have to ask, he hasn’t done his job. read more »
Remember Sept. 11, 2001? Here's the Romantic Version
It’s surely not Jay McInerney’s fault that the author of the hilariously unconvincing Amazon rev read more »
Didion's Annus Horribilis: How Grief Looks on the Page
We all saw the photo on the cover of The New York Times Magazine: a skeletal Joan Didion showing us read more »
Location, Location, Location
New York Apartments: Private Views, by Jamee Gregory. Rizzoli, 208 pages, $50.
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Image of Twin Towers Ablaze Haunts Narcissistic Cartoonist
In the Shadow of No Towers , by Art Spiegelman. Pantheon, 42 pages, $19.95.
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Spying on Rattus Norvegicus, Ratting on Homo Sapiens
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants , by Robert Su read more »
A Fierce Family Feud Spoils a Tainted Legacy
"Novelist" is too fragile a title for Toni Morrison. read more »
Disgraced Journalist's 'Novel' Is Janet Malcolm for Dummies
The Fabulist: A Novel , by Stephen Glass. Simon & Schuster, 342 pages, $24.
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Reconciling Race, Music, Time, A Cerebral Novelist Dazzles
The Time of Our Singing , by Richard Powers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 631 pages, $27.
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They Come in 57 Flavors: Snobs in a Post-WASP World
In the City: Random Acts of Awareness , by Colette Brooks. W.W. read more »
The Filthiest, Nastiest Word Gets a Cool, Lawyerly Airing
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word , by Randall Kennedy. read more »
Those Fearless Fighter Pilots, That Lovely, Lapidary Prose
Cassada , by James Salter. read more »
Welcome to Leechfield, Texas, Birthplace of Memoir Madness
Cherry , by Mary Karr. read more »
