Lincoln's Strategy To Turn Rivals Into Allies

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NPR Topics: Books | 08/20/08 9:52

After he won the presidency, Abraham Lincoln brought three of his rivals for the Republican nomination into his cabinet. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals, recounts the life and work of our 16th president — and the principal characters of his administration.

  The 'Religionization' Of The Oval Office

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NPR Topics: Books | 08/20/08 9:43

Scholar Randall Balmer explores the interplay between religion and American politics in his book, God in the White House. Balmer is a professor of religious history at Barnard College, and the editor-at-large for Christianity Today.

  'Little Book' Tells A Wonderfully Big Story

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NPR Topics: Books | 08/20/08 9:19

A new novel three decades in the making features time travel, screwball hidden identity plots and lively background music. Reviewer Maureen Corrigan calls The Little Book by Selden Edwards an "an ideal late-summer reading getaway."

  Jessica Reed: My French translations of Enid Blyton neglected some vital information

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Guardian Unlimited Books | 08/20/08 9:00

Jessica Reed: As a child, I loved Enid Blyton's books. But it's only now I realise that the French translations neglected some vital information…

  Inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize awarded

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Guardian Unlimited Books | 08/20/08 8:25

Cambridge University graduate Kate Miller has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for her poem After the Ban

  Fred d'Aguiar's poetry workshop

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Guardian Unlimited Books | 08/20/08 6:12

The idea of revision presupposes a vision, an original which enables the return visit. Poets faced with a prodigious library of forebears, continue precisely because they see opportunities for further exploration of ideas and emotions touched on by previous books. The Guyanese writer, Wilson Harris, characterises this process...

  Mahmoud Darwish's translator wins prize

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Guardian Unlimited Books | 08/20/08 5:13

The translator of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's collection The Butterfly's Burden has won the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for literary translation from Arabic.

  Arts & Letters Daily (20 Aug 2008)

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Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate | 08/19/08 23:00

The Chinese discovered America, says Gavin Menzies. Now he claims that they also sparked the Renaissance... more The novelist Elizabeth Taylor is best known for not being the person eveybody thinks she is. Ben Schwartz explains... more Why are most Americans so willing to have an essential part of their hearts sliced away...

  An Age Of American Self-Loathing

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NPR Topics: Books | 08/19/08 19:51

NPR's Dick Meyer contends that, despite living in a time of relative peace and prosperity, Americans are "morally and existentially tired." In his new book, Why We Hate Us, Meyer diagnoses the problem.

  Lucy Mangan celebrates the literary talents of Enid Blyton

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Guardian Unlimited Books | 08/19/08 18:07

Lucy Mangan says hurrah for the 'nanny-narrator' who introduced her and countless others to the joys of reading