By MICHIKO KAKUTANI   Published: January 10, 2010 Why another book on the 2008 campaign, a year after the inauguration of President Obama? What more is there to say about a race that was covered day in and day out by newspapers, magazines, television, radio and bloggers? Is there anything...

Peter Navarro, business professor at University of California-Irvine, wrote the best-selling investment book If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, and The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage. His work has appeared in BusinessWeek, the L.A. Times, the New...

Meet the Supremes Illustration by Ji Lee. Photograph by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times   Published: September 23, 2007 The farewell ceremony for Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the United States Supreme Court in September 2005 offers the kind of monumental tracking shot authors...

Ronald Kessler on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart   Secret Service agents act as human surveillance cameras and observe everything that goes on behind the scenes in the president’s inner circle. New York Times bestselling author and...

From Books, New President Found Voice Doug Mills/The New York Times Barack Obama arrived in Bozeman, Mont., for a campaign rally in May 2008 carrying Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World.” By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Published: January 18, 2009 WASHINGTON — In college, as he was getting...

Obama’s Foursquare Politics, With a Dab of Dijon By MICHIKO KAKUTANI   Published: October 17, 2006 Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois and the Democratic Party’s new rock star, is that rare politician who can actually write — and write movingly and genuinely about himself. Skip...

The Obama the Campaign Knew Damon Winter/The New York Times Barack Obama, then an Illinois senator, after a town hall meeting with veterans in San Antonio in March 2008. By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Published: November 2, 2009 One year after Barack Obama was voted into the White House, does the...

by Michael Moore So it's raining in London, as usual. The big decision is what to go see at the movies this afternoon. Since there is a significant lag between the release of movies in the States and their appearance on British shores, I am left deciding between Michael Moore's new film,...

Warning of Calamities and Hoping for a Change in 'An Inconvenient Truth' Eric Lee/Paramount Classics "An Inconvenient Truth" is based partly on a presentation by Al Gore. By A. O. SCOTT Published: May 24, 2006 CANNES, France, May 23 — "An Inconvenient Truth," Davis Guggenheim's new...

Stephen King’s Glass ­Menagerie By JAMES PARKER   Published: November 5, 2009 Now that the town halls have blazed with vituperation, and fantastical patriots are girding themselves for fascist/socialist lockdown, Americans of a certain vintage must be feeling a familiar circumambient...