Civil War Wives
REVIEW The lives of three women take starkly different public paths in Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant by Carol Berkin (Knopf, 361 pages, $28.95)
the informers
REVIEW The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Riverhead Books, 347 pages, $25.95) reveals a country's dark past.
clinton tapes
REVIEW The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling With the President by Taylor Branch Simon & Schuster, 707 pages, $35) visits with former president Bill Clinton after hours.
macy butler's book
BOOK NEWS macy butler, a native arkansan, has written a book about his experiences in northwest arkansas as the first black to work in an official capacity as a wildlife officer for the arkansas game & fish commission.
University of Arkansas Press publishes Army Life: From a Soldier's Journal
JUST PUBLISHED: Army Life: From a Soldier's Journal
David Byrne
REVIEW Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne (Viking, 297 pages, $25.95) pedals a musician's musings.
Blood's a Rover
REVIEW Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy (Knopf, $28.95) creates a parallel history more alive than the real one.
LeBron James' book
BOOK NEWS Basketball superstar LeBron James makes sure his teammates share the spotlight in Shooting Stars (The Penguin Press, 272 pages, $26.95).
charles bukowski
BOOK NEWS Charles Bukowski's letters fetch a pretty penny for his former lover.
Of droll, balmy Paul Chowder and his poetically lived life
Tirdad Derakhshani interviews Nicholson Baker.
James Ellroy and Beethoven
AUTHOR INTERVIEW James Ellroy has a portrait of Beethoven hanging over his bed. Who knew?
Author Arlington Nuetzel in Jacksonville
Book Signing: 2027, New Madrid, Missouri and Murder in March Commons
A Kingdom at Any Cost
BOOK SIGNING: A Kingdom at Any Cost: Right-Wing Visions of Apocalypse
True Compass
NEWS E-book fans will have to wait for a download of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy's memoir True Compass.
the bolter
REVIEW The Bolter by Frances Osborne (Alfred A. Knopf, 300 pages, $30) tells what happens when a great-grandmother goes bad.
jon krakauer
AUTHOR INTERVIEW Jon Krakauer's new book, on sale Sept. 15, examines the death of NFL star turned Army ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan.
