In the Times’s new online book club, Reading Room, participants (including author Francine Prose, and frequent Book Review contributor Liesl Schillinger) and moderator/Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus are debating a new translation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Another participant is Times executive editor Bill Keller, whose thoughts on the novel seemed not Read More
Right-wing ruckmaker Bernard Goldberg has a new enemies list, and the New York Times is on it. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and columnist Paul Krugman are Nos. 2 and 8 respectively in Goldberg’s just-released volume 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37). Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus isn’t in Read More
“David Brooks and I are very friendly,” said New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus. Last week, such a profession might have struck Times -watchers as unnecessary: Why wouldn’t Mr. Tanenhaus, the scholar of Whittaker Chambers and William F. Buckley Jr., get along with the new conservative star of the paper’s Op-Ed page? Weren’t Read More
“I’m very moderate by nature,” Sam Tanenhaus said by telephone from his home in Westchester, two days after The New York Times announced that he would be the next editor of its Book Review . “People with extreme views interest me, dramatically and narratively.”
The author of a very well-received 1997 biography of the journalist Read More
