Books

Book Critic Trashes Hillary Bio By the Times' Own Reporters

Robert Dallek, a popular Times' source for Republican-bashing, can also defend Democrats: "The book is almost uniformly negative and overly focused on what they consider the Clintons' scandalous ...

"Her Way" Takes on Clinton from the Left on Iraq War Vote

In a new book, veteran Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta take on Hillary from the left on the war and claim her marriage to Bill is more political than marital, and make ABC's Chris ...

Top Book Critic Loves Gore's "Fiercely Argued" Anti-Bush Screed

Michiko Kakutani's fan mail: Gore's powerful book "The Assault on Reason" just as great as "An Inconvenient Truth."

Celebrating a Left-Wing Writer's "Crackling Expose"

"Jeremy Scahill's muckraking book 'Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army,'...[is] a crackling expose of the secretive military contractor Blackwater USA, which Scahill ...

A Stranger in Libertarian Land

A libertarian response to a NYT reviewer's criticism of a book on the movement's history: "...a review in a newspaper that still to this day proudly touts the Pulitzer Prize it received in 1932 ...

Chris Hedges on "American Fascists" of the Christian Right on Colbert Show

The former Times reporter on Christian Right leaders: "...what they have done is pervert, destroy, and hollow out the actual heart of the Christian religion. I mean look at the little empires that ...

Former NYT Reporter's New Book: "American Fascists - The Christian Right and the War on America."

Christopher Hedges, who reported for the Times for 15 years, thinks the Christian Right "should no longer be tolerated."

Times Reviews Attacks on Ann Coulter, Not Coulter's Own Best Sellers

Jacob Heilbrunn finds three anti-Coulter books feeble. But at least they get reviewed - unlike the best-selling Coulter herself, whose last book was apparently ignored by the Times Book Review.

Kakutani on Bush-Defender John Yoo's "Preposterous" New Book

Leading book critic Michiko Kakutani again displays her refusal to debate conservative arguments, merely dismissing them as prima facie ridiculous.

Former Times Bureau Chief Attacks "Fascist" Christian Right

Former Times Bureau Chief Chris Hedges on the Christian Right: "This is a potent and a ruthless mass movement that would like to dismantle American democracy." And that's not the most extreme ...
Syndicate content