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Puttin’ Off the Ritz: The New Austerity in Publishing	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:32:21 GMT
Amid a relentless string of layoffs and pay-freeze announcements, book publishers are clamping down on some of the business’s most glittery and cozy traditions.

Books of The Times: They Vacuum Maggots, Don’t They? Novel Delves Into the Trauma Cleaning Trade	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:54:48 GMT
Charlie Huston has written a smoking-hot new crime novel.

Footsteps: Kyoto Celebrates a 1,000-Year Love Affair	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:50:03 GMT
This city, known for its shrines and blazing autumn hills, is celebrating the millennial anniversary of an ancient book about love and loss among the imperial set.

Books of The Times: The Man Who Discovered Oxygen (Maybe) and Gave the World Soda Water	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:01:09 GMT
Steven Johnson’s portrait of the 18th-century chemist, theologian and perennial agitator Joseph Priestley is also a lament about the intellectual specialization of our modern age.

Donald E. Westlake, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 75	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:40:55 GMT
The prolific, award-winning novelist pounded out more than 100 books and five screenplays during his career.

Princess Leia’s Wit Tames the Dark Side	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:52:50 GMT
The title of Carrie Fisher’s funny, sardonic little memoir is a bit misleading.

Paul Hofmann, Author and Foe of Nazis, Dies at 96	Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:56:34 GMT
Mr. Hofmann acted as an informer for the Allies while serving on the staff of the German commandants and later became a foreign correspondent for The New York Times.

Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: I Wish I Could Read Like a Girl	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:21:29 GMT
A mother envies her children's ability to truly immerse themselves in a book's plot, escaping from the responsibilities of adult life.

Books of The Times: Young Sontag: Intellectual in Training	Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:34:24 GMT
These notebooks of raw, unpublished writing by Susan Sontag depict a young intellectual in training.

Rough Crossing	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:13:01 GMT
In Robin Romm’s account of her mother’s death from cancer, her fury is transformed into an instrument for pursuing truth.

Method and Madness	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:52:35 GMT
The first serious Brando biography since his death includes a survey of his posthumous legacy.

Reading Mom and Dad in Tehran	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:20:38 GMT
The author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” fleshes out personal stories left untold or half-told in her earlier work.

Oh So ’80s	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:14:43 GMT
In Chuck Klosterman’s first novel: nostalgia, angst and football.

All American	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:09:58 GMT
In her new story collection, Louise Erdrich chronicles Native American ways, but also captures the voices of multitudes.

Woman’s Estate	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:26:50 GMT
A journalist reports on the family drama surrounding Brooke Astor’s decline.

Out of Egypt	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:10:11 GMT
The novelist Alaa Al Aswany places his emigré characters in post-9/11 Chicago.

The Reader	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:45:01 GMT
A tantalizing study of Hitler’s book collection and what it says about the man.

Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:22:42 GMT
Graham Greene’s letters reveal a man in constant search of “the exciting thing” -- the insurgencies and coups of the world.

The Monstrous Anger of the Guns	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:42:45 GMT
The Somme was the bloodiest battle Britain ever fought, but Peter Hart argues that it was hardly senseless.

Essay: America, ‘Amerika’	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:16:43 GMT
A new translation of Kafka’s unfinished first novel, set in a dream-world that is not quite America.

Samuel Huntington and the Positivity of Power Thinking	Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:22:50 GMT
Samuel Huntington, the political theorist who died on Dec. 24, demonstrated the potency and peril of the big idea.

The Plot Curdles	Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:16:49 GMT
A modest proposal for bailing out the publishing industry.

Books: Still Paging Mr. Salinger	Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:10:32 GMT
Revered for “The Catcher in the Rye” and the Glass family, J. D. Salinger remains elusive on his 90th birthday.

The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: The Girl in the Green Raincoat	Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:04:07 GMT
Last chapter: Tess Monaghan, recognizing that her best friend ran true to Don Epstein’s type, asked Whitney to flirt with the man. And Whitney, as it happened, didn’t mind.