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'Stories that couldn't be more different--Bob Woodward's new book and the Mark Foley sex scandal--are examples of the difference between get-it-in-the-paper-now journalism and how-did-it-really-happen journalism.' Or so wrote Deborah Howell, [...]

In 1917 Albert Einstein published a paper on cosmology--indeed the first significant modern paper on the subject--that was sufficiently implausible that he felt compelled at one point to write, 'In [...]

When I was American editor of the Times Literary Supplement during the Clinton era, the paper published an article by the philosopher Thomas Nagel on the Monica Lewinsky affair that [...]

Peter Collier & David Horowitz, editors The Anti-Chomsky Reader. Encounter Books, 260 pages, $17.95 (paper) One of the main reasons Noam Chomsky's political views are taken seriously in universities and [...]

Frederick Law Olmsted Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England. Library of American Landscape History, 530 pages, $24.95 (paper) In 2003, New York City celebrated the 'sesquicentennial' of [...]

Isabelle Frank, editor The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European & American Writings, 1750-1940. Yale University Press, 424 pages, $22.50 (paper) 'What are the decorative arts?' That is [...]

Gerald Weissmann Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination Perseus, 354 pages, $28.95, $17 paper Of all literary genres, the essay is perhaps the best known and most widely despised. [...]

The lead of The New York Times's story about financial troubles at The Irish Times pays tribute to that paper as a 'guide' to Hibernians doubtless bewildered by 'the economic [...]

Mark Bauerlein The Dumbest Generation. Tarcher, 272 pages, $24.95 Paeans to the new batch of Millennial workers appear, it seems, in every other edition of the Sunday paper, detailing the […]

Elie Kedourie In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon-Husayn Correspondence and Its Interpretations, 1914-1939. Frank Cass, 350 pages, $28.50 paper This book was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1976. [...]

John von Neumann The Computer and the Brain. Yale University Press, 112 pages, $9.95 'Every morning I would sit down before a blank sheet of paper. Throughout the day, with [...]

Petronius Satyricon, translated & with commentaries by Sarah Ruden. Hackett, 256 pages, $9.95 paper The Satyricon is the Ulysses of Roman literature. It is a comic novel intoxicated with language, [...]

Margo DeMello Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community. Duke University Press, 248 pages, $16.95 paper I was recently consulted in the prison in which I [...]

J. R. Ackerley My Dog Tulip. Introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. New York Review Books, 190 pages, $12.95 paper Typical of the zoophilist who favors life's lower orders over humankind, [...]

J.R. Ackerley My Father and Myself. Introduction by W. H. Auden. New York Review Books, 283 pages, $12.95 paper Typical of the zoophilist who favors life's lower orders over humankind, [...]

Martin E. Marty Modern American Religion. University of Chicago Press; Volume I: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919 (386 pages, $16.95 paper); Volume II: The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941 (464 [...]

Louise Bogan A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan, edited by Mary Kinzie. Swallow Press, 394 pages, $19.95 (paper) Most readers will recognize the name of the lyric poet [...]

Calmly, the papers calculate the chance That in ten years the planet and a shard Of rock will consummate the long romance We've led with ruin. This will be ignored: [...]

Jean-Paul Sartre Critique of Dialectical Reason, translated by Alan Sheridan-Smith, Forward by Fredric Jameson. Verso, 836 pages, $25 (paper) By one of those coincidences that reinforces one's faith in Providence, [...]

December 29. A Monday. In the annual trough of the entre deux fetes, The Washington Post, like every other daily paper in the land, obviously hasn't got its starting team […]

Among the many reasons adduced for the awfulness of The New York Times--its arrogance, its sloppiness, its almost risible political correctness--is the paper's lack of competition. With the demise of [...]

Timothy Steele All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification. Ohio University Press, 366 pages, $34.95 cloth $16.95 paper One odd side effect [...]

Isabel Bolton Under Gemini. Steerforth Press, 133 pages, $12 paper When she was in her early sixties, Mary Britton Miller (1883-1975), who after twenty years of publishing had found no [...]

Jeremy Lewis Cyril Connolly: A Life. Jonathan Cape/Pimlico, 653 pages, $50; $19.95 paper To the writer Cyril Connolly, his own flawed character was a limitless literary goldmine, a dark gift [...]

Nirad C. Chaudhuri Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse. Oxford, 137 pages, $15.95; $8.95 paper Nirad Chaudhuri is the author of two of the greatest books to have come out [...]

A man, with a dozen small pieces of paper compared to my two, knew I was waiting behind him at the pharmacy xerox machine, and might have said: 'You have [...]

Victoria Newhouse Towards a New Museum. The Monacelli Press, 288 pages, $45 paper The architectural historian Victoria Newhouse, by choosing mid-to-late-twentieth-century art museums as her subject, is telling a bigger [...]

Whiter than paper, whiter than snow, whiter than the moon in its fullness, whiter than clouds passing over, I close my eyes and see white stars hanging in the air [...]