African Idyll
The Times’s Helene Cooper fled a warring Liberia as a child. In this memoir, she returns to confront the ghosts of her past -- and to find a lost sister.
Books of The Times: A Leader Beyond Denial, as War Plans Flounder
Bob Woodward paints a picture of an administration shrugging off bad news and postponing decisions as the crisis in Iraq deepened.
True Grit
In a new story collection, Annie Proulx returns to disrupt the mythology of the Old West.
