Books

U.S. Reaction After 9-11 Betrayed "Spirit of Openness"

Silly politics on the cover of the Times Book Review: "...lifelong citizens under suspicion for having foreign-sounding names...."

Hypocritical Book Critic Bashes "Anti-Intellectual" Bushies

Michiko Kakutani on U.S. anti-intellectualism: "For more than a decade there have been growing symptoms of this affliction, from fundamentalist assaults on the teaching of evolution to the Bush ...

The Times Gets Taken in By Another Fabulist

Meet "Margaret B. Jones," author of a gang memoir about her days as a half-white girl in the hood that turned out to be totally fabricated.

Reporter David Cay Johnston vs. His Book Review Critic

DCJ: "Chait twists words I use to describe the shared values of those Democrats and Republicans who favor people over corporations to make them appear as my views, not a description of theirs." ...

Cover-to-Cover Bias in the Sunday Book Review

This week's "politics" issue of the book review follows a pattern: Liberal reviewers praising liberal books and dismissing conservative ones.

Using Left-Wing Talking Points to Push Reporter's 9-11 Book

The liberal publishing house behind Philip Shenon's book on 9-11 is pushing left-wing talking points to sell it, such as: "Why the Commission did not expose Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's egregious ...

Times Reporter Salutes Disgraced Sandy Berger as "on Top of al-Qaeda"

In an interview on his book on the 9-11 commission, Philip Shenon defends Clinton's disgraced national security adviser Sandy "Burglar," as well as Clinton partisan Richard Clarke.

Former Times Reporter on "Evil" Coal Companies

Timothy Egan reviews a book about strip-mining in West Virginia and the horrors of coal: "...check out those black nuggets - coal, a fossilized time bomb hauled out of the deepest holes in the ...

Chief Book Critic Raves Over Liberals in Year-End List

Four out of 6 of Michiko Kakutani's favorite non-fiction books come from liberals.

PBS Anchor Admits Book Industry Is In 'Transition'

'NewsHour' anchor Jim Lehrer discusses publishing struggles, 'wishes' more people would 'quit writing' and start 'reading' books.
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