BookReview

Obama Appreciation, Tea Party Bashing on the Cover of the Sunday Book Review

Diversity, Times style: "Bipolar America," the cover feature for the Book Review, compiles reviews of three new books on Tea Party-related politics, one reviewed by veteran liberal journalist ...

Classy: Frequent NYT Book Reviewer Compares Tea Party to KKK

Ohio State University professor Kevin Boyle: "Imagine a political movement created in a moment of terrible anxiety, its origins shrouded in a peculiar combination of manipulation and grass-roots ...

Times Reviews Joe McGinniss's Anti-Palin Hatchet Job, Ignores Books by Conservatives

"The Rogue," Joe McGinniss's hatchet-job expose of Sarah Palin, is crammed with unverified anecdotes delivered by anonymous foes of Palin but was nonetheless favored with recognition in the Times ...

Book Review Leads With Warnings of 'Rabid' Anti-Obama Conservatives

Editorialist Brent Staples carries his trade to the front of the Times Sunday Book Review: "Obama clearly went to Washington with a healthy respect for rational, principled conservatism. He was ...

NY Times Reviews What People Are Saying About Coulter's Book Cover...But What About the Book?

The New York Times Book Review goes into detail about criticism of the black cover of "Demonic," Ann Coulter's latest New York Times bestseller. But will the paper deign to review what's inside? ...

Times Reviews What People Are Saying About Coulter's Book Cover...But What About the Book?

The Times Book Review goes into detail about criticism of the black cover of "Demonic," Ann Coulter's latest New York Times bestseller. But will the paper deign to review what's inside? It rarely ...

Norman Podhoretz Attacked as 'Embittered, Paranoid Crank' in Sunday Book Review

Conservative legend Norman Podhoretz's thoughts are the "intemperate rantings" of "an embittered, paranoid crank," according to Damon Linker, an unidentified liberal writer who was given two ...

Classy: NYT Executive Editor Uses Book Review to Call Murdoch 'Corrosive'

Bill Keller, the New York Times executive editor, uses a book review to make a crack at his right-leaning newspaper rival Rupert Murdoch: "The last of his breed of media tycoon is a 79-year-old ...

Editor Richard Berke on the 'Feral' Tea Party Movement

Soon to be national editor Richard Berke: "In retrospect, it is tempting to see the Clinton impeachment as having ushered in the feral reality of politics today: the birthers, the Tea Party ...

Premature "Death" - A Review of "The Death of Conservatism" by Sam Tanenhaus

Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times Book Review and Week in Review sections, doesn't so much call the movement dead as try to define it out of existence. But the political landscape ...
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