Books of The Times: Voters Are Red, Voters Are Blue
A short poem about Calvin Trillin’s new book, which tells the story of the 2008 presidential election in light verse.
Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History
Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for “Shadow Country.”
Books of The Times: Despite a Ghastly Murder, Remember Your Manners
In P. D. James’s latest exercise in impeccable detection, a muckraking London journalist worms her way into a private clinic on a country estate — and ends up the victim of a ghastly murder.
