Books Archive: L

Eve LaPlante

• Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall (HarperCollins, 2007)

Claire LaZebnik

• Knitting Under the Influence (5 Spot, 2006)

Jeri Laber

• The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age With the Human Rights Movement (Public Affairs, 2002)

Jhumpa Lahiri

• Unaccustomed Earth (Knopf, 2008)

Kristen Laine

• American Band: Music, Dreams and Coming of Age in the Heartland (Penguin/Gotham, 2007)

Nick Laird

• Utterly Monkey (Harper Perennial, 2006)

Christina Lamb

• Sewing Circles of the Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan (HarperCollins, 2002)
• House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe (Chicago Review Press, 2007)

David Lamb

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Wally Lamb

• Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution, Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters (Regan Books, 2003)

Gavin Lambert

• Mainly About Lindsay Anderson (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000)
• Natalie Wood: A Life (Knopf, 2004)

Philip Lambert

• Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius (Continuum, 2007)

Anne Lamott

• Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith (Penguin/Riverhead, 2007)

Jeffrey Lane

• Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball (University of Nebraska Press, 2007)

John Langdon

• Wordplay: The Philosophy, Art and Science of Ambigrams (Broadway Books, 2005)

Richard Lange

• Dead Boys: Stories (Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

William Langewiesche

• The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

A.J. Langguth

• Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Simon and Schuster, 2007)

Richard Lanham

• The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information (University of Chicago Press, 2006)

Tim Laskowski

• Every Good Boy Does Fine (Southern Methodist University Press, 2003)

Angela Hague and David Lavery

• Teleparody: Predicting/preventing the Tv Discourse of Tomorrow (Wallflower Press, 2002)

Peter Lavezzoli

• Column: New Ways to Breathe

Tim Lawerence

• Feature: In the Eye of the Glitterball

Halldór Laxness

• The Fish Can Sing (The Harvill Press, 2001)

Sean Astin with Joe Layden

• There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale (St Martin's Press (USA) / Allen & Unwin (Australia), 2004)

Zachary Lazar

• Sway: A Novel (Little, Brown, 2008)

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John Le Carrè

• Absolute Friends (Little, Brown and Company, 2004)

Nam Le

• News: Tales of fathers sail on in 'The Boat'

Michael R. LeGault

• Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of An Eye (Threshold Editions, 2006)

Lawrence LeShan

• The Psychology of War: Comprehending Its Mystique and Its Madness (Helios Press, 1969)

Jackson Lears

• Something for Nothing: Luck in America (Viking Penguin, 2003)

Jane Leavy

• Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (Harper Collins, 2002)

Carol Ann Lee

• The Hidden Life of Otto Frank (William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2003)

Leo Ou-fan Lee

• City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong (Belknap, 2008)

Shayne Lee

• The Postmodern Preacher: The Rise of Bishop T.d. Jakes (New York University Press, 2005)

Dennis Lehane

• Shutter Island (William Morrow, 2003)
• News: Dennis Lehane, a favorite author with filmmakers, expands his literary horizon

Jonah Lehrer

• Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

Marti Leimbach

• Daniel Isn't Talking (Nan A. Talese, 2006)

J. Robert Lennon

• Mailman (Granta Books(UK), W.W. Norton & Company (US), 2003)

Elmore Leonard

• When the Women Come Out to Dance (Harper Collins, 2002)
• Up in Honey's Room (HarperCollins, 2007)

Giulio Leoni

• The Mosaic Crimes (Harcourt, 2007)

Betsy Lerner

• Food and Loathing: A Lament (Simon & Schuster, 2003)

Phil Lesh

• Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead (Little, Brown, 2005)

Doris Lessing

• The Grandmothers (HarperCollins, 2004)

Michael Lesy

• Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (W.W. Norton & Compnay, 2007)

Jonathan Lethem

• You Don't Love Me Yet (Doubleday, 2007)
• News: A lighter turn for a writer who favors twists
• The Disappointment Artist (Vintage, 2006)
• The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday, 2003)
• Men and Cartoons: Stories (Doubleday, 2004)
• Motherless Brooklyn (Vintage Books, 2000)

Barry M. Levenson

• Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001)

Claude Levi-Strauss

• Column: On Being Savage

Tanya Levin

• People In Glass Houses (Black Inc., 2007)

Elana Levine, Lisa Parks

• Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Duke University Press, 2007)

Iain Levison

• Since the Layoffs (Soho Press, 2003)

Andrea Levy

• Fruit of the Lemon (Picador, 2007)

Shawn Levy

• Ready, Steady, Go! the Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London (Doubleday, 2002)

Steven Levy

• The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (Simon and Schuster, 2006)

Todd Lewan

• The Last Run (HarperCollins, 2004)

Miles Marshall Lewis

• Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises (Akashic, 2004)

Miles Marshall Lewis [Editor]

• Bronx Biannual: The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature, Issue 2 (Akashic Books, 2007)

Marina Lewycka

• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Penguin, 2006)

Eric Lichtenfeld

• Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle and the American Action Movie (Wesleyan University, 2007)

Rod Liddle

• Too Beautiful for You: Tales of Improper Behavior (Doubleday, 2004)

Lisa Lieberman

• Leaving You: The Cultural History of Suicide (Ivan R. Dee, 2003)

Ron Liebman

• Death by Rodrigo: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

Tao Lin

• Feature: Literature is Inside of Life Just Like a Tree is Inside of Life

Tao Lin

• Feature: Literature is Inside of Life Just Like a Tree is Inside of Life

Andro Linklater

• The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity (Walker & Company, 2007)

Susan Linn

• Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing and Advertising (Anchor, 2005)

Charles de Lint

• The Onion Girl (Tor Books, 2001)

Laura Lippman

• Another Thing to Fall (Morrow, 2008)
• News: Laura Lippman's latest Tess Monaghan novel goes on the set of a TV miniseries

Sam Lipsyte

• Home Land (Picador, 2005)

James Glanz and Eric Lipton

• City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center (Times Books, 2003)

Brad Listi

• Column: Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

Robert Littell

• The Company: A Novel of the CIA (Penguin, 2007)

Penelope Lively

• The Photograph (Penguin Books, 2003)

Mario Vargas Llosa

• The Bad Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007)

Christopher Logue

• All Day Permanent Red: War Music Continued (Faber & Faber, 2003)

Steve Lohr

• Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Scientists and Iconoclasts Who Were the Hero Programmers of the Software Revolution (Basic Books, 2001)

Bjørn Lomborg

• Feature: A Cooler Head Prevails

Djuna Barnes, edited with an introduction by Rebecca Loncraine

• The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems (Fyfield Books, 2003)

Joan London

• The Good Parents (Random House, Australia)

Dustin Long

• Icelander (McSweeney's, 2006)

Mark A. Long

• Bad Fads (ECW Press, 2002)

Robert Emmet Long

• Broadway, the Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-directors 1940 to the Present (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001)
• John Huston: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

Daniel Chavarría (translated by Carlos Lopez)

• Adios Muchachos (Akashic Books, 2001)

Daniel Chavarria (Translated by Carlos Lopez)

• The Eye of Cebele (Akashic Books, 2002)

Sylvere Lotringer

• Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, (Semiotext(e), distributed by The MIT Press, 2002)

Courtney Love

• Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love (Faber & Faber, 2006)

Michelle Lovric

• The Floating Book (Regan Books, 2004)

Michael Lowenthal

• Charity Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

Edward Lucas

• The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

Carl F. Luckey, Clyde A. Harbin

• Column: Hooked by Antique Lures

Roddy Lumsden

• Mischief Night - New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2004)

Lydia Lunch

• Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary (Akashic, 2007)

Dr. Frank Luntz

• Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (Hyperion, 2007)

April Lurie

• Brothers, Boyfriends & Other Criminal Minds (Delacorte, 2007)

Tom Lutz

• Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

Jack Lynch

• Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned Provincial Playwright Into the Bard (Walker & Company, 2007)

Scott Lynch

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books