Book Reviews

Thin Air

Piecing together Nabokov’s 138 handwritten index cards.

Reading Minds

Neuroscience meets linguistics when Stanislas Dehaene studies how our minds decode language.

Butchering Love

Dicing up Julie Powell's newest culinary obsession.

A City of Big Shoulders

Dominic Pacyga talks with Wunderkammer about his new book, Chicago: A Biography.

Three Movies a Week

David Warren reviews The Film Club by David Gilmour.

Math for the People

Logicomix turns the quest for Foundational Mathematics into a graphic novel that even you would find interesting.

Pete’s Path to Literary Fame

I mean seriously, how hard can writing a bestseller really be? Steve Hely shows us in his novel How I Became a Famous Novelist.

Youth in Repose

Raymond Zhong looks back on Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries.

A Matter of Life or Death

You know that the world is going to end. How do you live your life?

Nothing to Worry About

An insider’s look at Walter Kirn’s Lost in the Meritocracy.