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A review of the book "Paper Wishes," by Lois Sepahban, is presented.

Reviews the fiction book 'Paper Products,' by James W. Hall.

The article reviews the book "Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage" by Pete Dexter and edited by Rob Fleder.

Reviews two books of poetry about art, "Inner Voices," and "Paper Trail," by Richard Howard.

Reviews the book 'The Tiananmen Papers,' compiled by Zhang Liang.

The article reviews the books "War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication," by James Aulich, "Street Art and the War on Terror: How the World's Best Graffiti Artists Said No to the Iraq War," edited by Eleanor Mathieson, text by Xavier A. Tàpies, and "Rolling Paper Graphics," by José Lorente Cascales.

The article reviews several books, including "War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication," by James Aulich, "Street Art and the War on Terror: How the World's Best Graffiti Artists Said No to the Iraq War," edited by Eleanor Mathieson, and "Rolling Paper Graphics," by Jose Lorente Cascales.

The article reviews several books including "Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures," by Anne C. Broomer and Julian I. Edison, "Exotic Postcards: The Lure of Distant Lands," by Alan Beukers, and "Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art," by Claudia Walde.

The article reviews several books including "Exotic Postcards: The Lure of Distant Lands," by Alan Beukers, "Bombshell: The Life and Crimes of Claw Money," by Claw Money and "Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art," by Claudia Walde.

Is paper passe? Your answer will most likely depend on whether you're reading this sentence on newsprint or on a screen. But it's safe to say that artists and designers aren't ready to quit the stuff, at least by the measure of the latest show at the Museum of Arts and Design. They are, however, willing to pierce, shred, carve and slice it. ''Slash: Paper Under the Knife,'' the third show in the museum's Materials and Process series, explores the sometimes violent, always intricate art of paper cutting. (It follows ''Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting'' and ''Pricked: Extreme Embroidery'' in 2007 and 2008.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book `The Paper's Papers: A Reporter's Journey Through the Archives of the New York Times,' by Richard F. Shepard. Comments about Adolph S. Ochs, Arthur Hays Sulzberger and others.

\hye article reviews the book "American Paper Mills, 1690-1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade With Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques," by John Bidwell.

The article reviews the exhibition "Zarina: Paper Like Skin," by Zarina Hashmi at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City until April 21, 2013.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951,' Volume 1, edited by Clayborne Carson.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: Volume One: The Making of an Inventor, February 1847-June 1873,' edited by Resse V. Jenkins and others.

The article reviews several books including "The Marlowe Papers" by Ros Barber, "Coolidge" by Amity Shlaes and "Kind of Kin" by Rilla Askew.

A review of the book "Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers & Other Battles," by James C. Goodale is presented.

The article previews the exhibition "Works on Paper 1976-1977" at David Zwirner's Chelsea gallery in New York City through June 29, 2013, which will feature works on paper made by German abstract artist Blinky Palermo.

ANATHEM, by Neal Stephenson (Harper Perennial, $16.99.) Set in a world similar but not identical to our own, ''Anathem'' imagines a monastic order whose members contemplate issues of math, physics and philosophy, and live their lives without electronic technology. But Stephenson's hero, an ascetic named Erasmas, and his order are called back into the world to save civilization from an extraterrestrial crisis. Stephenson ''delights in the language and etymology he has designed for his fictional world . . . and in the 7,000 years of detailed history he has given it,'' Dave Itzkoff wrote in the Book Review. MY PAPER CHASE: True Stories of Vanished Times, by Harold Evans (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $16.99.) Evans, who has served as the editor of The Sunday Times of London and The Times of London, recalls his ascent in a swashbuckling era of British journalism: from his first exposure at age 16 to his championing of investigative journalism that, among other things, exposed the Soviet spy Kim Philby and achieved justice for the deformed child victims of the drug thalidomide. (In a busy second act, Evans became an executive at the Atlantic Monthly Press, U.S. News & World Report, Conde Nast Traveler and Random House.) ''My Paper Chase'' ''celebrates bygone glories and dwells on the truths of good journalism that still obtain,'' our reviewer, David Carr, wrote. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At the outset of Nick Jasenovec's ''Paper Heart,'' the actress and comedian Charlyne Yi (playing a purportedly fictional version of herself) claims neither to need nor believe in romantic love. Over the course of the movie, however, she will be nudged toward conformity by two parallel forces: the actual testimonies of firm believers and the fictional unfolding of a fumbling affair. And since this is an American story, Ms. Yi's conversion will come about in the quintessentially American way: as the result of a road trip. An unconvincing mash-up of the real and the fake, ''Paper Heart'' wavers between identities to no clear purpose and to its considerable creative detriment. The clumsy premise follows Ms. Yi and a director (named Nick Jasenovec but played by Jake Johnson) as they solicit love stories from a variety of regular Americans, most of whom are delightful and none of whom appears to be in on the movie's meta-joke. Rather these segments, cherry-picked to enhance a loosely predetermined narrative (by Ms. Yi and Mr. Jasenovec), serve chiefly as props for a scripted romance between the leading lady and the actor Michael Cera, an attachment so tentative and pathologically gawky that it's almost painful to watch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Folded paper transcends mere craft in the Parrish Art Museum's exhibition ''Paper Transformed -- Origami.'' Here is an astonishing array of lifelike animals made of nothing but folded paper. Some of them are life-size, like a heron, its neck crooked, greeting visitors at the entrance to the show. The nearly 100 sculptures on display here, by the world's leading contemporary origami artists, were made without cutting or gluing. According to the book that accompanies the exhibition, many of the pieces were made with a single sheet of paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If ''The Hills'' is an indictment of 20-something women behaving as if they were not yet old enough for bat mitzvahs, ''The Paper,'' a new reality series following it on Monday nights on MTV, is a different kind of exercise in ageism. It plays into stereotypes of overscheduled teenagers who run around with goals of world domination, who believe that an advanced-placement class is license to act as though they were 42. It's ''Election'' all over again. Set at what we are told is an award-wining newspaper, The Circuit, at Cypress Bay High School in Florida, ''The Paper'' revolves around the ambitions of an embattled staff of students, led by an editor in chief whose arrogance would surely alienate even a horde of mosquitoes. To say that Amanda is the editor is not much of a spoiler since she gets the job pretty quickly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]