Woodward investigates the White House (AP Photo/Simon & Schuster)
Books
‘The War Within’: What to expect from Bob Woodward’s new book
Is Woodward's latest book a scathing exposé of the Bush administration?
Author of the week: Lee Israel
Twenty years ago, biographer Lee Israel stole or forged 400 letters, which she then sold to literary dealers. Her new memoir, Will You Ever Forgive Me?, describes how she pulled off these literary scams and escapades.
In His Sights: A True Story of Love and Obsession by Kate Brennan
In His Sights records nearly 14 years of harassment the author suffered (and still suffers) from a former lover. At one point she moved 16 times in 16 months to escape his reach.
Book of the week: The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank
The Wrecking Crew will "monopolize political conversations" for months to come as readers debate Thomas Frank's account of how the Republicans have dismantled the government by selling it off to the private sector.
Novel of the week: The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Brunonia Barry’s hit mystery debut is narrated by a native of Salem, Mass., who returns to her hometown after a long absence because her aunt has gone missing. As she unravels the truth, the reader enters a world of "dark melodrama" that casts a "gentle spell."
Also of interest ... in political attacks and critiques
The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso; The Way of the World by Ron Suskind; Fleeced by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann; The Way We’ll Be by John Zogby
Why booksellers love Obama
Readers who love or hate Obama are snatching up books about him.
Book of the week: I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan Squire
Susan Squire traces the history of marriage and the forces that have shaped it. The result is a "potent, hugely entertaining" book, where readers will discover, among other things, that the "person in a marriage who holds authority isn't necessarily the one who wields power."
Summer crush: Is a teen vampire the new Potter?
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer’s fourth and final volume in The Twilight vampire romance series, has just been released. The ardor of its fans has turned the series into almost as big a publishing phenomenon as Harry Potter.
Novel of the week: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is written as a series of letters between a witty London columnist and a small Channel Island community that survived Nazi occupation.
Author of the week: Steve Dublanica
Steve Dublanica, of "Waiter Rant"-blog fame, is retiring from the business just as his book—Waiter Rant—hits the market.
Why Random House cancelled ‘The Jewel of Medina’
Should a book about Mohammed's nine-year-old wife be published?
Why Salman Rushdie might sue over a book
Are the claims by a security officer that guarded Rushdie true?
Remembering Solzhenitsyn
The writer who bore witness to Soviet tyranny from the inside.
