Janet Maslin

Steve Martin’s Novel ‘An Object of Beauty’ - Review

Steve Martin’s new novel follows a heroine with fierce, outsize ambition as she makes her way in New York’s art world.

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Books Gift Roundup 2010 - Introduction

How The Times’s daily book critics put together their year-end lists.

Janet Maslin’s Top 10 Books - Holiday Gift Guide 2010

Favorite books of the year from one of The Times’s book critics.

Michael Korda’s ‘Hero,’ About T. E. Lawrence - Review

The strength of Michael Korda’s new biography of T. E. Lawrence, “Hero,” lies in its ability to analyze its subject’s accomplishments and to add something to the body of Lawrence lore.

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‘Colonel Roosevelt’ by Edmund Morris - Review

Edmund Morris’s biography of Theodore Roosevelt deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject.

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‘The Bed of Procrustes’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

the fiscal prophet and self-appointed flâneur Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers scornful aphorisms to explain the modern world.

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Laura Hillenbrand’s ‘Unbroken’ Tells a P.O.W. Tale

Laura Hillenbrand, the author of “Seabiscuit,” wrote a biography of Louis Zamperini, Olympic athlete and World War II hero.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee on Cancer, ‘Emperor of All Maladies’ - Review

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee writes a “biography” of cancer and of those who have fought it throughout history.

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Stephen King’s ‘Full Dark,’ Grisham’s ‘Confession’ - Review

John Grisham’s “Confession” is about a man wrongly convicted of murder and the man who claims to be the killer; Stephen King’s “Full Dark, No Stars” contains four short stories.

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Clayburgh’s Unforgettable ‘Unmarried Woman’ - Appraisal

The actress Jill Clayburgh, who died on Friday, had the gift of resembling a real person undergoing life-altering change.