05.03.10: Book Review | 'Angelology,' by Danielle Trussoni
In Danielle Trussoni’s rousing novel, a young nun is drawn into an ancient struggle against the Nephilim, hybrid offspring of humans and heavenly beings.

08.03.10: Book Review | 'Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town,' by Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.

05.03.10: Book Review | 'The Ask,' by Sam Lipsyte
This darkly humorous satiric novel, a witty paean to white-collar loserdom, stars a deeply cynical academic fund-raiser fighting for his job.

05.03.10: Book Review | 'The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight,' by Gina Ochsner
Gina Ochsner’s first novel links the grim anomie of post-Soviet Russia to the delirium of magic realism.

05.03.10: Book Review | 'This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All,' by Marilyn Johnson
An exploration of the world of libraries and librarians, via a tour of eccentric characters and unlikely locations.

05.03.10: Book Review | 'The Infinities,' by John Banville
In John Banville’s novel, a crew of Greek deities attends a mathematician’s deathbed.

08.03.10: Book Review | 'The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers,' by Nancy Sherman
A philosopher and psychoanalyst documents the stories of veterans and brings a dual perspective to the experience of war.

05.03.10: Book Review | 'Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen,' by Jimmy McDonough
The life and hard times of the country singer Tammy Wynette.

05.03.10: Book Review | 'Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine,' by Max Watman
Modern profiles and historical sketches animate a moonshine enthusiast’s study of homemade liquor.

05.03.10: Book Review | 'Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand,' by Helen Simonson
Helen Simonson mischievously unleashes stock village-novel characters into a new England.

05.03.10: Letters: My Leningrad, Too
Elena Gorokhova, the author of “A Mountain of Crumbs,” responds to a letter about a review of her memoir.

05.03.10: Letters: Passing Both Ways

05.03.10: Letters: Mr. Not-Quite Isn’t Right

08.03.10: Visuals: Histories of Maps and Other Visual Books
Visual books about maps, the design firm Unimark International and African and Central Asian “war rugs.”

04.03.10: Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. FANTASY IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb
2. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
3. BLACK MAGIC SANCTION, by Kim Harrison
4. SPLIT IMAGE, by Robert B. Parker
5. BIG GIRL, by Danielle Steel

09.03.10: Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. GAME CHANGE, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
2. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot
3. I AM OZZY, by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
4. THE POLITICIAN, by Andrew Young
5. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom

04.03.10: Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave
2. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks
3. A RELIABLE WIFE, by Robert Goolrick
4. THE 8TH CONFESSION, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson

04.03.10: Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks
2. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks
3. FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci
4. SHUTTER ISLAND, by Dennis Lehane
5. THE SUMMER HIDEAWAY, by Susan Wiggs

04.03.10: Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE LOST CITY OF Z, by David Grann
2. THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis
3. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
4. THE SURVIVORS CLUB, by Ben Sherwood
5. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler

04.03.10: Hardcover Advice
Top 5 at a Glance
1. SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
2. THE KIND DIET, by Alicia Silverstone
3. THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, by Gretchen Rubin
4. SO LONG, INSECURITY, by Beth Moore
5. ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN, by Steve Harvey with Denene Millner

11.03.10: Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.

11.03.10: ‘The Nose,’ and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera
Three critics for The New York Times discuss the music, the art and the literary threads of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the Shostakovich opera “The Nose.”

11.03.10: Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-Winning Works by Lutoslawski, Kurtag and Currier
The Grawemeyer Players, a faculty ensemble from the University of Louisville, performed works by winners of the university’s annual composition prize at Weill Recital Hall.

11.03.10: Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber’s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum
On Tuesday, the centenary of Samuel Barber’s birth, the Ying Quartet performed the composer’s Op. 11 String Quartet in Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum.

11.03.10: EMI Music Names a New Chief
Charles Allen was named executive chairman of EMI Music. He replaces Elio Leoni-Sceti, who is leaving the company.

11.03.10: Arts, Briefly: Lady Antebellum Returns to Top of Chart
Six new albums entered the Billboard Top 10 this week, but none could best the two titles that have dominated the chart for the last five weeks.

10.03.10: MtyMx Expands Indie-Rock Frontier to Mexico
MtyMx, a rock music festival in Monterrey, Mexico, will take place on the grounds of a drive-in movie theater over three days beginning March 20.

10.03.10: Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993
There’s a lot of meta-sublimity going on right now in indie rock. Sometimes it really is sublime. Now Harvey Milk is on tour for a record it made in 1993.

10.03.10: Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall
The concert presented by Max Lifchitz and his North/South Chamber Orchestra at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday was billed as a 30th-anniversary gala.

10.03.10: Music Review | Yelawolf: Alabama Rapper at Brooklyn Bowl, With ‘Trunk Muzik’ Mixtape
Yelawolf, while an easy fetish object — white, rural, tattooed, skateboarder-friendly, an anomaly among anomalies — isn’t an outsider in Southern rap.

10.03.10: For City Opera Season, Bernstein, Strauss and New Works
The struggling New York City Opera, operating with a slender financial cushion, announced plans on Tuesday for another stripped down, five-production season.

09.03.10: Music Review | Jeanine Tesori: Thoroughly Modern Music in Lincoln Center Songbook Series
Jeanine Tesori, as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, was the host of an autobiographical extravaganza at the Allen Room.

09.03.10: Music Review | Argento Chamber Ensemble: Wit, Special Effects and the Argento Chamber Ensemble
“Bodymusic,” is a witty, imaginative new piece presented by the Argento Chamber Ensemble at the Miller Theater on Friday.

09.03.10: Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: Jurowski Leads Two by Shostakovich, and Toradze in a Ravel
Both the concise and the verbose sides of Shostakovich were represented on Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall.

09.03.10: Lil Wayne Sentenced to a Year at Rikers Island on Gun Charge
The rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr., had pleaded guilty in October, after being arrested in 2007.

08.03.10: The Bowery Presents....Shows in Boston
The company will present live music at the Royale club.

08.03.10: Domingo Has Polyp Removed From Colon
A spokeswoman said surgeons used laparoscopic surgery to remove the polyp and that Placido Domingo is expected to fully recover.

08.03.10: Music Review | 'The Nose': At the Met: William Kentridge Envisions Shostakovich’s Opera
The South African artist William Kentridge has unleashed his imagination on Shostakovich’s bitterly satirical and breathless opera at the Met.

08.03.10: Music Review | Muse: Plumbing British Rock for Heroics at Madison Square Garden
Muse, a three-man English band formed in the early 1990s, never misses a chance for melodrama.

08.03.10: Critics’ Choice: New From Broken Bells, DJ Drama & Fabolous, and Jamie Cullum
New releases from Broken Bells, DJ Drama and Fabolous and Jamie Cullum.

11.03.10: Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston makes a good case for proving that acting talent can be absorbed by osmosis. From her father John Aniston's stardom on Days of Our Lives to her godfather Telly Savalas, the actress was surrounded by plenty of inspiration from an early age. As Aniston attended the Rudolph Steiner School as a child, she was interested in many forms of art and proved to be a talented painter, eventually having one of her pieces displayed at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Acting also appealed to her, and... [more]

11.03.10: Jay Leno

A popular comedian during the 1970s, "Jay Leno" is best known as the man who replaced "Johnny Carson" at the helm of The Tonight Show in 1992. Leno was born James Douglas Muir Leno to parents of Italian and Scottish heritage (Leno is particularly fond of discussing the Italian part) in New Rochelle, NY, but was raised in Andover, MA. During the year in which he was establishing his standup career, Leno was performing 300 nights throughout North America. He made his television debut on the "Merv Griffin Show"... [more]

11.03.10: Brittany Murphy

"Brittany Murphy" first came to the attention of film audiences as Tai, one of "Alicia Silverstone"'s airhead friends, in the 1995 comedy "Clueless". Though convincing as a dim-bulb character, "Murphy" cuts dramatically against this grain off-camera, as a ferociously intelligent and ambitious young performer who had acting in her blood from early childhood. As a teenager and young adult, she gave expression to the scope of her talent and versatility with a series of engaging film and television... [more]

11.03.10: Miley Cyrus

The daughter of country-music superstar Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus got her start in the entertainment industry on an episode of her father's PAX TV medical series Doc before appearing in Tim Burton's fantastical 2003 adventure Big Fish. A fateful appearance as the character Hannah Montana in the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody followed in 2006, and her character proved so popular that a spin-off series called Hannah Montana was launched shortly thereafter. In the series, Cyrus portrayed... [more]

11.03.10: Sandra Bullock

Giving new meaning to the term America's Sweetheart, "Sandra Bullock" won over scores of filmgoers and critics with her wholesome, exuberant portrayals of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances. Since her breakthrough role as "Speed"'s unwitting heroine, Bullock has enjoyed the type of popularity that was in the past reserved for actresses along the lines of "Mary Pickford" or "Shirley Temple".

Born in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 1964, Bullock was the elder daughter of a vocal coach dad and an... [more]

11.03.10: George Clooney

"George Clooney" embodies one of Hollywood's most formidable renaissance men. As a remarkably intelligent and capable actor, and a director of surprising skill and intuition, Clooney has almost completely exempted himself from criticism. In light of these qualities, the thespian's formidable charm and devastating physical appeal seem, astonishingly, to be almost incidental.

As the son of broadcast journalist Nick Clooney and the nephew of chanteuse "Rosemary Clooney", "George Clooney" entered the... [more]

11.03.10: Angelina Jolie

Next to "Liv Tyler", "Angelina Jolie" is the only actress of her generation who can thank her famous father for the lips that have become her trademark. The actress was born Angelina Jolie Voight to the pillow-lipped "Jon Voight" and actress Marcheline Bertrand on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles.

Raised mostly by her mother after her parents divorced while she was still a baby, Jolie moved around a lot with her mother and brother. She also did a fair amount of traveling as a professional model, living in such... [more]

11.03.10: Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian, the wealthy daughter of the high-powered defense attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Kardashian (and the stepdaughter of Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner), grew up in Beverly Hills, CA, and attended an exclusive all-girls Catholic high school in the City of Angels. As a young woman, Kardashian worked at her father's music marketing firm, Movie Tunes, then parlayed her entrepreneurial instincts into a successful career as a wardrobe stylist for television programs, magazine photo layouts, and... [more]

11.03.10: Robert Pattinson

London-born Robert Pattinson found his acting niche almost instantly, kicking off his career with a string of fantasy roles. After catching the acting bug through amateur theater, the young thespian made his first film appearance at the age of 18, appearing in 2004's Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King, based on a Nordic legend. He followed this up by joining the Harry Potter franchise the following year, playing Cedric Diggory in Goblet of Fire, as well as the subsequent movies. Having captured the hearts of many... [more]

11.03.10: Kristen Stewart

A fervent surfer who bears a striking resemblance to the young "Jodie Foster", "Kristen Stewart" was poised to become a preteen star with her role opposite Foster in "David Fincher"'s atmospheric thriller "Panic Room" (2002). A resident of Los Angeles, Stewart's nascent acting career got off to a promising start when she was cast in two vastly different films. Eschewing fluffy kids' movies, Stewart played troubled single mother "Patricia Clarkson"'s tomboy daughter in independent film darling "Rose Troche"'s... [more]

11.03.10: Jennifer Love Hewitt

Personifying the type of teen spirit most commonly found in Noxzema ads and pep-squad meets, actress "Jennifer Love Hewitt" has brought new meaning to the word "effervescent." The '90s saw Hewitt go from relative obscurity to a bona fide teen queen, to say nothing of one of the most frequently enshrined actresses on the internet.

Hewitt was born on February 21, 1979, in Waco, TX. She made her first appearance on television in 1984 in the show Kids Incorporated (which, coincidentally, once guest-starred... [more]

11.03.10: Lindsay Lohan

Child actress "Lindsay Lohan" was already an experienced performer when she made her feature debut in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Born in New York City, Lohan began modeling at age three. After appearing in numerous TV commercials, Lohan moved to series TV with a role on the soap operaAnother World from 1996 to 1997. Cast as The Parent Trap's scheming twin sisters after a six month search for just the right girl, Lohan succeeded in filling "Hayley Mills"' shoes, winning over audiences with her pert... [more]

11.03.10: Conan O'Brien

If Richie Cunningham and "Phyllis Diller" mated, would it equal "Conan O'Brien"? It's probably not a good enough match to poop on, but definitely one that has brought some laughs to television audiences everywhere. Conan Christopher O'Brien was born April 18, 1963, in Brookline, MA, to Ruth, a lawyer, and Tom, a doctor. He has three brothers, two sisters, and his cousin is comedian "Denis Leary". At Brookline High School, he was on the debate team and served as editorial editor on the Sagamore. After high... [more]

11.03.10: Irish handle Pirates in Big East tourney
With a healthy Luke Harangody back in top form, Notre Dame stopped Seton Hall in its run-and-gun tracks to take another big step toward the NCAA tournament.

11.03.10: Attorney: Officers were with Big Ben

10.03.10: Lawyers for Big Ben's accuser speak out
Attorneys for the woman who accuses Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault said that she did the right thing by going to police and asked for privacy in a statement Tuesday.

11.03.10: Grizzlies give Celtics a beating in Boston

10.03.10: Cut QB Anderson apologizes for trashing Browns fans
Former Browns quarterback Derek Anderson has apologized after saying Cleveland fans "don't deserve a winner" following his release.

10.03.10: Garciaparra signs deal with Red Sox, then retires
Nomar Garciaparra rejoined the Red Sox for one day and then retired, ending a 14-year career in which he won two batting titles with Boston and became a beloved player in the city.

11.03.10: Nomar Garciaparra retirement video

10.03.10: Champions League scoreboard 031010

10.03.10: Man U moves on

10.03.10: Torii Hunter: Black Latino players aren't black, they're 'impostors'
Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torii Hunter called black Latino baseball players "impostors" when it comes to the appearance of the number of African-Americans in the major leagues.

11.03.10: Battery Ventures Raises a Fresh $750 Million
Battery Ventures' new, $750 million fund is the latest sign of a revival in Silicon Valley.

11.03.10: TV May Be the New Google Reader Play's Best Venue
Google announced a new feature of its Google Reader Web site on Wednesday called Google Reader Play. The updated application offers a simple, personalized view of Web content.

11.03.10: What We're Reading: What You're Reading
Our daily roundup of technology tidbits features Google's new service to show you what the Web is reading, the employment boom for hackers and a couple of trips down memory lane.

10.03.10: Tech Talk Podcast
This week's podcast includes the changing fortunes of Pandora, the Internet radio site and an exploration of geek style.

10.03.10: Mobile Apps That Outperform Web Sites
Some Web site founders have been surprised that their products are better suited to cellphones.

10.03.10: Google Opens App Store for Business Software
Google introduced a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.

10.03.10: What We're Reading: Barbie, Steve and Carly
Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a deeper look at Barbie the engineer, Carly Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Jonathan Schwartz's battles with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and a pricing glitch at Amazon.com.

09.03.10: H.P. Barks, Then Bites Apple on the iPad
Two of the world's computing powerhouses have started a war of words around their forthcoming tablet computers.

09.03.10: A Talk With Charles Thacker, the Turing Winner
Charles Thacker, the lead designer on the Alto, the Xerox PARC prototype of the modern personal computer, won the Turing Award.

09.03.10: Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location
The social networking site plans to roll out features next month that will give its 400 million users the option of sharing their location with friends as part of their news feeds.

09.03.10: Cisco Unveils One Router to Rule Them All
Cisco has unveiled its biggest routing system to date, one that the company says is capable of linking everyone in China on a video call.

09.03.10: Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses
Foursquare, a location-based social network, is rolling out new tools that will give businesses more information about their customers and allow them to target special offers.

09.03.10: Google's Toolkit for Translators Helps Feed Its Machine
With its Translator Toolkit, Google hopes to teach its translation system to understand minority languages, like Maori.

09.03.10: What We're Reading: Conan's Twitter Buddy and New York in Pixels
Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a brain-controlled computer, the one person that Conan O'Brien follows on Twitter and a new site that broadcasts your purchase history to your followers.

08.03.10: Pandora: In the Middle of the Music
The music and technology industries are still trying to figure out how we will listen to music online in the future, but Pandora is trying to capitalize on whatever business model eventually emerges.