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Apple Strikes Back at Government E-Book Lawsuit
By NICK WINGFIELD
The company denies that it conspired with book publishers to raise e-book prices to give Apple’s new iPad a boost, and accuses the government of siding with Amazon.
Gregg Allman’s memoir talks about growing up with his brother, Duane; life with the Allman Brothers Band; his substance abuse; and his relationships with women.
Here’s a sampling of beach reads to suit every taste, from history to science fiction.
The company denies that it conspired with book publishers to raise e-book prices to give Apple’s new iPad a boost, and accuses the government of siding with Amazon.
The success of Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” has inspired other comedians to write memoirs.
The director of “Hairspray,” “Polyester” and “Pink Flamingos” recounts his hitchhiking experiences from a recent road trip as he collected material for a book he plans to call “Carsick.”
“Alien vs. Predator” is a first collection of poems by Michael Robbins, who is often praised for his ability to whip high and low culture into stiff peaks.
J. A. Kerswell’s “Slasher Movie Book” looks back lovingly at posters for horror movies both classic and wretched.
This summer, the Motherlode Book Club will be reading two books parents and older children alike can enjoy, from Jodi Piccoult and her daughter, Samantha Van Leer, and Carl Hiaasen.
Mr. Fussell, a wide-ranging author, may be best remembered for “The Great War and Modern Memory,” his study of World War I and the influence of its horrors on art and literature.
Former employees say they signed agreements that forbid them from commenting on the New York Public Library’s plan to revamp its Fifth Avenue building.
Along with a growing list of collaborators, we're encouraging people of all ages to take to Twitter on June 7 to talk about #summerreading. Bring your classes!
This book about the short life of the novelist and poet Richard Brautigan distills San Francisco and Montana in the 1960s and ’70s and the wild lives of the subject and his friends.
A new picture book turns one paleontologist’s hunt for dinosaur fossils into an adventure story.
The author of “Visit Sunny Chernobyl” talks about experiencing some of the world’s most toxic places.
In Richard Ford’s new novel, a 15-year-old boy watches his family fall apart, and flees north to something even worse.
The enthusiasm for the trilogy has forced library officials to dust off their policies — if they have them — on erotica.
Mr. Fuentes was Mexico’s elegant public intellectual and grand man of letters whose panoramic novels captured the complicated essence of his country’s history.
Mr. Sendak, known in particular for “Where the Wild Things Are,” was widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century.
Maurice Sendak, like Max, his celebrated character, was the king of all wild things.
This ambitious economic history of the United States argues that the country thrives when the federal government acts as a robust partner to private enterprise.
Timothy Noah summarizes the causes of widening economic inequality in the United States, and offers policy recommendations for fixing it.
Arlie Russell Hochschild examines how we meet some of our most personal needs with the aid of paid strangers.
The president of Harvard University, a historian and the author of multiple works of nonfiction, wishes all incoming freshmen would read “Being Wrong.”
A British journalist and spy in Russia had a more successful career as a children’s author.
Hilary Mantel’s sequel to “Wolf Hall” traces Anne Boleyn’s fall.
Despite the bumper stickers, the gap between soldier and civilian is wider than ever.
In Peter Carey’s novel, two narrators separated by time are brought together in the pursuit of an automaton.
Rapid change, Akash Kapur explains, has brought contrast and contradiction to India.
Richard Brautigan, author of the 1960s best seller “Trout Fishing in America,” is the subject of this biography.
Alex Grecian’s Victorian mystery “The Yard” is the bloody tale of a serial killer targeting detectives from Scotland Yard.
In Tania James’s stories, a chimpanzee and a ghost are among the characters entangled in sticky human relationships.
Erich Segal’s 1985 novel about a 25th reunion at Harvard tapped into ambitions and fears that are all too real.
This week, Michael Lind talks about his economic history of the United States, “Land of Promise”; John Leland discusses a biography of Richard Brautigan; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
Ever get frustrated trying to read an e-book in a darkened room? Behold, the self-illuminating Glow Light Nook from Barnes & Noble.
In true book-club fashion, conversations about books I read with my dying mother led to conversations about our lives.
It’s the invasion of the Can’t-Help-Yourself books.
By excluding the aesthetic dimension from our analyses of militant texts, we miss a crucial opportunity to confront the humanity of their authors.
Henry A. Crumpton, a former C.I.A. operative whose memoir, “The Art of Intelligence,” is on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 3, says he was influenced by Sean Connery’s James Bond.
Dr. Victoria Sweet’s account of the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco laments its transformation from an old-style chronic care facility into a modern center focused on efficiency and early discharge.
Mr. Denker’s large output ranged from novels and movies to TV and Broadway plays.
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