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Quick Takes: Film Independent's double play

2012-01-11 00:00:00

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Nonfiction

2011-11-30 00:00:00

The Age of Movies The Selected Writings of Pauline Kael Edited by Sanford Schwartz Library of America, $40 Witty, entertaining and often exhilarating, this wide-ranging collection of pieces captures the film critic at her best. Alice James A...

Book Review: 'Rebels in Paradise' by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

2011-07-17 00:00:00

Rebels in Paradise The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Henry Holt: 288 pp., $27 After decades of neglect, Los Angeles art history is a hot topic. The most immediate reason is "Pacific Standard Time: L.A. Art 1945-1980," an...

Book review: 'Red Summer' by Cameron McWhirter

2011-08-14 00:00:00

Red Summer The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America Cameron McWhirter Henry Holt: 368 pp., $30 From April to October 1919, a wave of racial violence swept across the United States. A bloody series of at least 52 lynchings and 25 major...

Word Play: Where the Wild Things still are

2011-07-03 00:00:00

The idea of caring for the environment seems to be easier to get across to kids than to adults. Many adults just think the world is too complicated. "What difference does one light bulb or one plastic water bottle make in the wide world?" they think. For...

Culture Watch: 'Rebels in Paradise' by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

2011-07-26 16:32:59

Book review: 'Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War'

2011-03-13 00:00:00

Revolution The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War Deb Olin Unferth Henry Holt: 212 pp., $24 In the 1980s, Central America was astir with civil unrest, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua. While nation-states and their proxies intervened...

Word Play: Of bullies and bad boys

2011-02-20 00:00:00

"The guy looks tough, setting off my internal alert. Everyone knows a guiding principle of underclassman survival is identifying dangerous upperclassmen." (from "Leverage") • "We're losers together. We don't care. We're like freedom fighters. We'...

Summer reading: History

2011-05-22 00:00:00

Absolute Monarchs A History of the Papacy John Julius Norwich Random House: $30 The respected historian of the Byzantine Empire and Venice now turns to one of the oldest institutions on Earth and those who have worn the mitred hat during its 2,000-...

The Mystery Writers of America announce Edgar Awards nominees

2011-01-19 16:34:15

Discoveries

2010-10-24 00:00:00

Hope Will Find You My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living Naomi Levy Harmony Books: 244 pp., $23 Naomi Levy, the first female Conservative rabbi to lead a congregation on the West Coast, was used to caring for other people in...

Book review: 'Sunset Park' by Paul Auster

2010-11-21 00:00:00

Sunset Park A Novel Paul Auster Henry Holt: 312 pp., $25 Halfway through Paul Auster's 16th novel, "Sunset Park," a writer named Renzo Michaelson mentions to his publisher, Morris Heller, a concept he has for "an essay about the things that don't...

Fiction: Writing under a pseudonym, Irish author John Banville exhumes 1950s Dublin in a gloomy and hypnotic mystery about skulduggery among the well-connected.

2011-12-16 11:00:52

'Rocky' makes Top 100: Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire are shown in a scene from the 1976 film Rocky, which is included in the top 100 movies in The New York Times Essential Library: Children's Movies' (Henry Holt and Company) by Peter M. Nichols.

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