<![CDATA[Wash Post Books]]>

<![CDATA[Wash Post Books]]> en-us 30 washingtonpost.com 140 20 http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif <![CDATA[ Book World: Robert and Dayna Baer's 'true-life spy story,' 'The Company We Keep' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031404548.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031404548.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:35:02 EDT Joseph Kanon <![CDATA[ Book review: 'The Trinity Six' by Charles Cumming ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/13/AR2011031304216.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/13/AR2011031304216.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:35:00 EDT Patrick Anderson <![CDATA[ The actor Alan Arkin tells how to live "An Improvised Life" in his memoir of that name. ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031402829.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031402829.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:59:03 EDT Alan Arkin Da Capo. 201 pp. $17 by Mindy Aloff <![CDATA[ Jill Bialosky's "History of a Suicide" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/15/AR2011031502300.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/15/AR2011031502300.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:56:02 EDT

]]> Nora Krug <![CDATA[ Maya Jasanoff's "Liberty's Exiles," on British Loyalists after the revolution ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031402627.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031402627.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:27:03 EDT Pauline Maier <![CDATA[ Dani Rodrik's "The Globalization Paradox" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031402872.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031402872.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:20:03 EDT Dani Rodrik Norton. 346 pp. $26.95 by Steven Pearlstein <![CDATA[ Thomas E. Kennedy's "Falling Sideways" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031402878.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031402878.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:18:02 EDT Jonathan Yardley <![CDATA[ Michael Connelly, author of "The Lincoln Lawyer" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031403878.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/14/AR2011031403878.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:46:01 EDT

]]> Neely Tucker <![CDATA[ 'Three Stages of Amazement': Life's lessons skillfilly shared ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031106221.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031106221.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:44:02 EST Wendy Smith <![CDATA[ 'Rawhide Down,' a gripping account of the day Reagan was shot ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031105027.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031105027.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:17:00 EST David Baldacci <![CDATA[ Book World: Lionel Shriver reviews Yan Lianke's 'Dream of Ding Village' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031005820.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031005820.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:32:01 EST Lionel Shriver <![CDATA[ Mat Johnson's 'Pym' re-imagines Poe's social satire ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030905232.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030905232.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:42:03 EST

]]> Michael Dirda <![CDATA[ Book review: Sarah Pekkanen's 'Skipping a Beat' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806443.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806443.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:19:02 EST Nancy Robertson <![CDATA[ Five finalists for National Book Critics Circle award in poetry ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806408.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806408.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:14:04 EST Elizabeth Lund <![CDATA[ Book review: 'The Tiger's Wife' by Tea Obreht ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806407.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806407.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:14:04 EST Ron Charles <![CDATA[ Book World: Keith Donohue reviews Kevin Brockmeier's novel 'The Illumination' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030800117.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030800117.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:34:03 EST

]]> Keith Donohue <![CDATA[ Patrick Anderson reviews Keith Thomson's 'Twice a Spy' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030604148.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030604148.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:37:00 EST Patrick Anderson <![CDATA[ Amid revolution, Arab cartoonists are drawing attention ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030602980.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030602980.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:28:06 EST Michael Cavna <![CDATA[ ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030406817.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030406817.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:17:02 EST Post <![CDATA[ The American Scholar's Wendy Smith reviews 'Ghost Light' by Joseph O'Connor ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030405704.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030405704.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:02:00 EST

]]> Wendy Smith <![CDATA[ Joshua Foer's 'Moonwalking With Einstein,' on the nature of memory ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402772.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402772.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:50:04 EST Marie Arana <![CDATA[ Book reviews: Ben Katchor's 'The Cardboard Valise' and Joyce Farmer's 'Special Exits: A Gr aphic Memoir' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030404735.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030404735.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:23:12 EST Dan Kois <![CDATA[ 3 books on New York City neighborhoods ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403345.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403345.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:08:01 EST Christopher Schoppa <![CDATA[ Bing West's "The Wrong War," on Afghanistan strategy ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403324.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403324.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:59:04 EST

]]> Chris Bray <![CDATA[ Deb Olin Unferth's 'Revolution' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403294.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403294.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:52:00 EST Stephen Lowman <![CDATA[ Dominic Sandbrook's "Mad as Hell," on rise of populist right ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403249.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403249.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:45:03 EST Jonathan Yardley <![CDATA[ "Townie," a memoir by Andre Dubus III ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403209.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403209.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:31:05 EST David Laskin <![CDATA[ "An Extravagant Hunger," about M.F.K. Fisher ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403049.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403049.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:20:03 EST

]]> Sarah Halzack <![CDATA[ Gordon Brown's "Beyond the Crash" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402591.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402591.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:23:05 EST Anthony Faiola <![CDATA[ Jim Steinmeyer's "The Last Greatest Magician in the World" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402342.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402342.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:00:03 EST Dennis Drabelle <![CDATA[ Stephanie Staal's 'Reading Women': Looking to feminist texts to find herself ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/03/AR2011030305480.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/03/AR2011030305480.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:59:01 EST Carolyn See <![CDATA[ Book review: 'Blood, Bones & Butter' delectable when chef Hamilton's in charge ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022806916.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022806916.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:34:03 EST

]]> Joe Yonan <![CDATA[ Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106377.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106377.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:19:04 EST Ron Charles <![CDATA[ "Underground," a picture book by Shane W. Evans ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106301.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106301.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:04:01 EST Post <![CDATA[ "Wheels of Change," a kids' history of women and bicycles ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106299.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106299.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:03:02 EST Post <![CDATA[ "Strings Attached," a young adult mystery from Judy Blundell ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106078.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106078.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:03:01 EST

]]> Post <![CDATA[ Book review: 'Playing Catch-Up' by A.B. Guthrie Jr. ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030105761.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030105761.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:25:04 EST Dennis Drabelle <![CDATA[ Anna Mundow reviews 'Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer,' by Wesley Stace ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/27/AR2011022703038.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/27/AR2011022703038.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:51:02 EST Anna Mundow <![CDATA[ Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503269.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503269.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:31:00 EST Post <![CDATA[ Philip K. Dick, the sci-fi writer who fires Hollywood's imagination in film after film ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503903.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503903.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:24:00 EST

]]> Lewis Beale <![CDATA[ Judi Dench's wry, shy take on a glorious stage career ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505846.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505846.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:21:00 EST Diana McLellan <![CDATA[ ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022506701.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022506701.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:41:01 EST Post <![CDATA[ Allison Pearson's 'I Think I Love You': A celebrity crush turns star-crossed ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505938.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505938.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:52:01 EST Elinor Lipman <![CDATA[ A review of 'Crazy U,' by Andrew Ferguson, about his family's college admissions experience ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503044.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503044.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:50:00 EST

]]> Steven Levingston <![CDATA[ "The Natural Navigator" by Tristan Gooley ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705970.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705970.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:43:00 EST Post <![CDATA[ Douglas Waller's "Wild Bill Donovan," on the OSS spymaster ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503043.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503043.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:59:01 EST David Wise <![CDATA[ Biography of Bogart examines his ongoing cultural impact ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503041.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503041.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:59:00 EST Carl Rollyson <![CDATA[ "Inherently Unequal" -- the sad history of the Supreme Court and civil rights ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503042.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503042.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:59:00 EST

]]> Kevin Boyle <![CDATA[ Nicholas Delbanco's "Lastingness: the Art of Old Age" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503040.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503040.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:59:00 EST Reeve Lindbergh <![CDATA[ Susan Conley's 'Good Fortune': Riveting memoir about being American in China ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/24/AR2011022407279.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/24/AR2011022407279.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:19:01 EST Carolyn See <![CDATA[ 'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories,' by Charles Baxter: Short but potent ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/23/AR2011022306323.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/23/AR2011022306323.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:09:08 EST Jeff Turrentine <![CDATA[ Book review: 'The Death Instinct' by Jed Rubenfeld ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022206326.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022206326.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:57:00 EST

]]> Seth Stern <![CDATA[ T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022206578.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022206578.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:09:13 EST Ron Charles <![CDATA[ New in paperback: 'A Mountain of Crumbs' and more ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022205638.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022205638.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:50:01 EST Nora Krug <![CDATA[ Book review: Carsten Jensen's 'We, the Drowned' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022103835.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022103835.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:27:01 EST Peter Behrens <![CDATA[ 'Tiger Mother' author faces a tough crowd at Politics and Prose ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022002987.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022002987.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:41:00 EST

]]> Monica Hesse <![CDATA[ 'The Collaborator': Taking on a modern-day Italian crime family ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022003880.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022003880.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:52:01 EST Patrick Anderson <![CDATA[ 'The History of History': An imaginative look at Berlin ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021807287.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021807287.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:03:01 EST Ruth Kluger <![CDATA[ ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021807028.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021807028.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:45:01 EST Post <![CDATA[ Two books on blacks and the White House ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705979.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705979.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:27:00 EST

]]> Patricia Sullivan <![CDATA[ Scott Brown's memoir, 'Against All Odds,' reveals troubled childhood for senator ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021704217.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021704217.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:57:01 EST Steven Levingston <![CDATA[ Kenneth Slawenski's biography of J.D. Salinger ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705994.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705994.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:49:01 EST Roger Lathbury <![CDATA[ Yardley reviews Jonathan Gill's "Harlem" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705993.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705993.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:49:01 EST Jonathan Yardley <![CDATA[ Mary Cappello's "Swallow" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705991.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705991.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:48:00 EST

]]> T. Rees Shapiro <![CDATA[ Peter Bergen's "The Longest War" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705986.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705986.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:47:01 EST Jessica Stern <![CDATA[ 3 books about iconic artists ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705984.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705984.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:46:01 EST Post <![CDATA[ Book review: 'George Gershwin,' a new biography by Larry Starr ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705985.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705985.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:46:01 EST Tim Page <![CDATA[ The Peace Corps at 50 ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705969.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705969.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:43:01 EST

]]> Steven V. Roberts <![CDATA[ 'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/16/AR2011021605494.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/16/AR2011021605494.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:55:01 EST Michael Dirda Special to the Washington Post <![CDATA[ Books: Eleanor Brown's 'The Weird Sisters,' reviewed by Ron Charles ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021505881.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021505881.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:49:04 EST Ron Charles <![CDATA[ 5 books about words ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021506530.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021506530.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:05:00 EST Yvonne Zipp <![CDATA[ "A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear," ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021506529.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021506529.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:42:02 EST

]]> Masha Hamilton <![CDATA[ Book review: 'While Mortals Sleep' by Kurt Vonnegut ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406952.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406952.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:05:01 EST William Sheehan <![CDATA[ Performing opera version of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021303063.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021303063.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:01:02 EST Post <![CDATA[ Book review: Hackneyed rules of suspense disappear in Hayder's 'Gone' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021303098.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021303098.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:37:00 EST Maureen Corrigan <![CDATA[ Andrew Taylor's 'Anatomy of Ghosts': Strange sightings in 18th-century England ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106217.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106217.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:18:00 EST

]]> Wendy Smith <![CDATA[ Conservatives queue up for peek at 'Atlas Shrugged' at CPAC ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106215.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106215.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:17:05 EST Monica Hesse <![CDATA[ ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106924.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106924.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:46:01 EST Post <![CDATA[ Book World: Michael Oher's 'I Beat the Odds' is story of redemption ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021105510.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021105510.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:10:05 EST Dave Sheinin <![CDATA[ Two books on the Arctic ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102699.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102699.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:42:01 EST

]]> Dennis Drabelle <![CDATA[ Joyce Carol Oates's "A Widow's Story" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102701.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102701.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:42:01 EST Valerie Sayers <![CDATA[ "The Sublime Engine," about the human heart ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102700.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102700.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:42:01 EST Becky Krystal <![CDATA[ "The Letters of Bruce Chatwin" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102693.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102693.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:41:00 EST Jonathan Yardley <![CDATA[ "The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102695.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102695.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:41:00 EST

]]> Steve Donoghue <![CDATA[ "Spousonomics," by Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson, applies economics to marriage. ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102694.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102694.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:41:00 EST Lisa Bonos <![CDATA[ Arnold Weinstein's "Morning, Noon, and Night," on literature's lifelong effects ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102696.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021102696.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:41:00 EST Roger Rosenblatt <![CDATA[ 'Moneymakers' review: Truly fun tales of 19th-century counterfeiters ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/10/AR2011021006371.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/10/AR2011021006371.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:10:01 EST Carolyn See <![CDATA[ Book World: A chess master who defeated himself ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR2011020906242.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR2011020906242.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:48:05 EST

]]> Michael Dirda <![CDATA[ Redwall author Brian Jacques dead at 71 ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR2011020906359.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR2011020906359.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:30:02 EST Post <![CDATA[ Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020805619.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020805619.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:36:01 EST Ron Charles <![CDATA[ Five books for Valentine's Day ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020804752.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020804752.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:06:00 EST Yvonne Zipp <![CDATA[ Anna Mundow reviews 'The Winter Ghosts' by 'Labyrinth' author Kate Mosse ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020804750.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020804750.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:05:01 EST

]]> Anna Mundow <![CDATA[ Donald Rumsfeld quiz: Do you know 'Known and Unknown'? ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020802456.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020802456.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:16:51 EST washingtonpost.com <![CDATA[ Gwen Ifill reviews Donald Rumsfeld's memoir, "Known and Unknown" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020800009.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020800009.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:05:00 EST Gwen Ifill <![CDATA[ Dan Fesperman reviews 'Donald,' by Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020800007.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020800007.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:05:00 EST Dan Fesperman <![CDATA[ Author Allison Pearson sings the song of the modern mom ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020603389.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020603389.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:10:03 EST

]]> Monica Hesse <![CDATA[ Book World: Patrick Anderson reviews 'The Devotion of Suspect X' ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020602893.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020602893.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:19:00 EST Patrick Anderson <![CDATA[ Going Out Guide: Free & easy ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020602549.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020602549.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:07:01 EST Post <![CDATA[ Allen Shawn's memoir "Twin" ]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020403003.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020403003.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/books Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST Post