Books Archive: K

Robert Kagan

• Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World From Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century (Knopf, 2006)

Ashley Kahn

• A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (PenquinPutnam, 2002)

Brett Kahr

• Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies (Perseus, 2008)

Kumiko Kakehashi

• So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima (Presidio Press, 2007)

Mitsuyo Kakuta

• Woman on the Other Shore (Kodansha International, 2007)

Larry Kane

• Lennon Revealed (Running Press, 2005)

Sybil Gordon Kantor

• Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art (MIT Press, 2002)

Bruce Eric Kaplan

• Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Tale of Our Times With (Hopefully) Some Hope for Us All (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

David A. Kaplan

• The Accidental President: How 413 Lawyers, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 5,963,110 Floridians (give or Take a Few) Landed George W. Bush in the White House (William Morrow & Co., 2001)

Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan

• Dean and Me (a Love Story) (Doubleday, 2005)

Yuri Kapralov

• Devil's Midnight (Akashic Books, 2005)

Ryszard Kapuscinski

• Column: On Revolutions, Civil War and Dictators: The Work of Ryszard Kapuscinski

Karen Karbo

• How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great (Bloomsbury, 2007)

Laura Kasischke

• Be Mine (Harcourt, 2007)
• Column: Living the Dream: The Life Before Her Eyes

Marlise Elizabeth Kast

• Tabloid Prodigy: Dishing the Dirt, Getting the Gossip, and Selling my Soul in the Cutthroat World of Hollywood Reporting (Running Press, 2007)

Stanley Kauffmann

• Regarding Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Frederick Kaufman

• A Short History of the American Stomach (Harcourt, 2008)

Julie Kavanagh

• Nureyev: The Life (Knopf/Pantheon, 2007)
• Nureyev: The Life (Knopf/Pantheon, 2007)

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  Nureyev defied the barrier that separated classical dance from modern and popular forms of the art, building bridges that are now familiar pathways.

   

Joanna Kavenna

• Inglorious: A Novel (Picador, 2008)

Susanna Kaysen

• The Camera My Mother Gave Me (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)

Andrew Keen

• The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture (Currency/Doubleday, 2007)

Philomena Keet

• The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish to Spectacular, Goth to Gyaru, Sidewalk to Catwalk (Kodansha, 2007)

Daniel Kehlmann, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)

• Measuring the World (Pantheon, 2006)

Joey Keithley

• I, Shithead: A Life in Punk (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004)

Florian Keller

• Andy Kaufman: Wrestling With the American Dream (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (editors)

• Feature: After the Silicon Rush

Joshua Kendall

• The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus (Putnam, 2008)

Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry

• Apostrophe (ECW Press, 2006)

Caroline Kennedy

• News: Caroline Kennedy's new book: 'A Family Christmas'

Hugh Kennedy

• The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In (Da Capo, 2007)
• The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy

Randall Kennedy

• Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon Books, 2002)
• Column: The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its Relevance

Kris Kenway

• Bliss Street (Sceptre Press, 2003)

Etgar Keret

• The Girl on the Fridge: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

Noah Kerner and Gene Pressman

• Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace (Simon and Schuster, 2007)

Jack Kerouac

• News: Jack Kerouac's sound of America

Jason Kersten

• Journal of the Dead (HarperCollins, 2003)

Imre Kertesz

• Detective Story (Knopf, 2007)

Martin Kevorkian

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books

Marian Keyes

• Column: Women of the Evolution: (Another) Discussion of Chick Lit

Yasmina Khadra

• The Sirens of Baghdad: A Novel (Nan A. Talese, 2007)

Chip Kidd

• News: Author/designer Chip Kidd has a new novel and a long resume of impressive artwork

Caitlin R. Kiernan

• Column: Abandoning the Fort

Frances Kiernan

• The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story (W. W. Norton, 2007)

Andreas Killen

• 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol and the Birth of Post-Sixties America (Bloomsbury, 2006)

Derek Kirk Kim

• Good As Lily (Minx, 2007)

Charles Kimball

• When Religion Becomes Evil (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003)

Paul Kimmage

• Column: Direct from the Speedy Streets of London

Colleen Kinder

• Delaying the Real World: A Twentysomething's Guide to Seeking Adventure (Running Press, 2005)

Geoff King

• New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction (Columbia University Press, 2002)

Stephen King

• Lisey's Story (Scribner, 2006)
• Cell (Scribner, 2006)
• Dreamcatcher (Scribner's, 2001)
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Scribner's, 2000)
• 'salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition (Doubleday, 2005)
• Column: Standing by Stephen King
• Duma Key (Scribner, 2008)

Barbara Kingsolver

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (HarperCollins, 2007)
• News: Savor the book and locally grown food

Sophie Kinsella [Shopaholic books]

• News: Author Kinsella anticipates seeing her characters on film

David Kirby

• Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation (University of Georgia, 2007)

Walter Kirn

• Mission to America (Doubleday, 2005)

Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman

• The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys (Simon and Schuster, 2007)

Bakari Kitwana

• Why White Kids Love Hip-hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes and the New Reality of Race in America (Basic Civitas Books, 2005)

Ian Klaus [Elvis Is Titanic]

• News: Author describes an Iraq not found on nightly newscasts

Naomi Klein

• Feature: Occupy, Resist, and Produce
• Feature: Brave New World

David Klinghoffer

• Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History (Three Leaves Press, 2006)

Matthew Kneale

• Small Crimes in An Age of Abundance (Nan A. Talese, 2005)

Peter Knight

• Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-files (Routledge, 2001)

David Ciminelli and Ken Knox

• Homocore: The Loud and Raucous Rise of Queer Rock (Alyson Books, 2005)

Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, Michael Chabon

• Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy (Yale University Press / Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008)

Wayne Koestenbaum

• Hotel Theory (Soft Skull, 2007)

Thomas Kohnstamm

• Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism (Three Rivers Press, 2008)

Joan Konner (Editor)

• The Atheist's Bible (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007)

Dean Koontz

• The Husband (Bantam, 2006)
• Odd Thomas (Bantam (US); HarperCollins (Australia), 2003)

Al Kooper

• Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor (Backbeat, 2008)

Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev

• Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love (Carroll & Graf, 2006)

Charles P. Korr

• The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81 (University of Illinois Press, 2002)

Chastity Bono with Michele Kort

• The End of Innocence (Advocate Books (Alyson Publications), 2002)

Steven Kotler

• The Angle Quickest for Flight (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001)

Ron Kovic

• Born of the Fourth of July (Akashic Books, 2005)

Nikolas Kozloff

• Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

Jon Krakauer

• Under the Banner of Heaven: The Story of Violent Faith (Random House, 2003)
• Column: The Escape Artist

David Wells with Chris Kreski

• Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball (William Morrow, 2003)

Mark Kriegel

• Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

Gary Krist

• The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Henry Holt and Co., 2007)

Paul Krugman

• Column: Paul Krugman's 'The Conscience of a Liberal'

John Kruth

• To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (Da Capo, 2007)

James L. Kugel

• How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now (Free Press, 2007)

Evan Kuhlman

• Wolf Boy (Three Rivers Press, 2006)

Nicholas Kulish

• Last One In (HarperCollins, 2007)

Amitava Kumar

• Bombay-london-new York (Routledge, 2002)

Lesha Hurliman and Numsiri C. Kunakemakorn

• Withoutcovers: //literary_magazines@the_digital_age (NotaBell Books, An imprint of Purdue University Press, 2002)

Milan Kundera

• The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts (HarperCollins, 2007)
• Ignorance (HarperCollins, 2002)

James Howard Kunstler

• World Made by Hand: A Novel (Atlantic Monthly, 2008)

Hari Kunzru

• The Impressionist (E.P. Dutton, 2002)

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

• The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
• The Jamestown Project (Harvard University Press, 2007)

Laurie Kutchins

• Slope of the Child Everlasting (BOA, 2007)