John Keegan, who is British, puts the Civil War into broad historical context amid history’s great conflicts, from the Napoleonic wars and World War I to Vietnam.
This big, comprehensive, flesh-and-blood account of Robert Altman’s persona and exploits draws on the voices of the filmmaker’s collaborators, critics and camp followers.
Mr. Kaminsky was a novelist who was widely known for his prodigious output, complex characters and rich evocations of time and place, including Hollywood in its Golden Age.
Through hundreds of descriptions of pasta styles, the Italian food historian Oretta Zanini De Vita’s “Encyclopedia of Pasta” places pasta in its social and historical context.
Ralph Stanley, 82, is one of the last, and surely the purest, of the traditional country musicians and only just got around to writing his autobiography.
Caroline Alexander’s book is not a new translation of “The Iliad” but an attempt at a fresh reading of it, one that focuses on what it has to say about the conduct and meaning of war.
Pete Dexter returns with an autobiographical novel, “Spooner,” a cradle-to-grave yarn about a well-meaning but wayward soul and his saintly stepfather.
Next month McSweeney's will publish, of all things, a newspaper: McSweeney's 33 is to be in the form of a daily broadsheet -- a big, old-fashioned broadsheet.
At Hitchcon 09 in London, fans paid tribute to Douglas Adams, the author of the original "Hitchhiker's" radio plays and books, and a new "Hitchhiker's" novel by the "Artemis Fowl" author Eoin Colfer was released.