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  We'll always nab Paris

  May 19, 2013

  The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked The World    by...  

• . . . and decade that ruined it

  May 19, 2013

  Dr. Herbert I. London is a renaissance man — he’s run for mayor, governor and state comptroller;...  

• Required reading

  May 19, 2013

  Americanah  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche (Knopf) After taking on her county’s brutal civil war in...  
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  In My Library Richard Greenberg

  May 19, 2013

  It’s been a very Richard Greenberg theater season. Not only is the playwright up for a Tony for his...  
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  In my library Meg Wolitzer

  May 12, 2013

  Meg Wolitzer isn’t just a novelist: She’s a second-generation one. She grew up on Long Island, the...  

• Direct hit on cancer

  May 12, 2013

  The Philadelphia Chromosome  A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level by...  
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  The great bank robbery

  May 12, 2013

  Tower of Basel  The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World  by Adam LeBor...  

• Required Reading

  May 12, 2013

  The DiMaggios  Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream...  
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  Tin ear

  May 05, 2013

  Uncommon Youth  The Gilded Life and Tragic Times of J. Paul Getty III by Charles Fox  St. Martin’s...  
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  In my library Roger Rees

  May 05, 2013

  Decades before he played Robin Colcord on “Cheers” and Lord John Marbury on “The West Wing,” Roger...  

• Why Texas has it right

  May 05, 2013

  Texas is easy to make fun of, and if it looks pretty strange to those of us on the coasts,...  

• It’s the end of the world as we know it (and that’s great!)

  May 05, 2013

  The more you know about government finances, the harder it is to take the budget theater in...  

• Required Reading

  May 05, 2013

  Class A  Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere  by Lucas Mann (Pantheon) Yes, there are Friday...  
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  Slip of the tongue

  April 28, 2013

  Cilantro is the world’s most divisive (legal) herb.  While some consider it a divine accent to...  

• Tom foolery

  April 28, 2013

  In November 1998, a short DNA study titled “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child” was published in...  
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  In my library Richard Kind

  April 28, 2013

  Richard Kind often plays men who resemble his surname — amiable if slightly neurotic guys like the...  

• Required Reading

  April 28, 2013

  The Woman Upstairs  by Claire Messud (Knopf) In the latest novel from Messud (“The Emperor’s...  
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  Hell, frozen over

  April 21, 2013

  Frozen in Time  An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by...  

• NYPD chew

  April 21, 2013

  The Food Police  A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate  by Jayson Lusk  Crown...  
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  In my library David Rockwell

  April 21, 2013

  If you’ve been to Broadway in the last few years, you’ve seen David Rockwell’s work — he did the...  

• Required reading

  April 21, 2013

  The Slippage  by Ben Greenman (Harper Perennial) In his take on suburban ennui, Greenman, an...  
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  Sex, drugs & pick & roll

  April 14, 2013

  Earl the Pearl: My Story  by Earl Monroe with Quincy Troupe  Rodale In 1973, the Knicks were one...  
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  Happy endings

  April 14, 2013

  Shell Shocked  My Life with the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc . . . by Howard Kaylan...  
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  In my library Colm Tóibín

  April 14, 2013

  Gabriel Byrne, the actor and cultural ambassador, told In My Library two years ago that Colm Tóibín...  

• Required Reading

  April 14, 2013

  The Friedkin Connection  by William Friedkin (HarperCollins) Filmmaker Friedkin, born in Chicago...  
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  Designing woman

  April 07, 2013

  How to Create the Perfect Wife Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His  Enlightened Quest to...  
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  In my library Al Leiter

  April 07, 2013

  After 19 seasons in the major leagues, Al Leiter traded his pitcher’s glove for a microphone. That...  

• Required reading

  April 07, 2013

  The Interestings  by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead) An author who calls her book “The Interestings” runs...  
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  Hiding behind the ‘truther’

  March 31, 2013

  The Spin Doctor  Hero or Cold-Blooded Killer? by Kirk Mitchell  New Horizon Press  A cameraman who...  
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  In my library Fr. James Martin, SJ

  March 31, 2013

  Today is Easter Sunday, and Father James Martin — the peripatetic and telegenic Jesuit priest —...  

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