<div><p>On Saturday night, The National Book Critics Circle announced 2008's finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards. </p><p>Among the fiction finalists was the late Roberto Bolaño's 2666. In nonfiction, The New York Times's Dexter Filkins was nominated for The Forever War. </p&gt ...

<div><p>The New York Times Book Review released its 100 Notable Books of 2008. </p><p>Notably, there are a lot of New York Times writers on the list, among them: </p><p>- The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler ...

<div><p> </p><p>Book Review: The Forever Reporter</p><p> By Hillary Frey
Dexter Filkins is a runner. During his three and a half years in Iraq, he’d regularly lace up his shoes, don his short shorts and stride along the Tigris River even in unbearable ...

<div><p>How to describe war? It has a familiarity that makes us believe we understand what it is all about. Yet its reality remains for most of us distant and unreliable. The versions of conflict we consume tend to be regimented, organised and packaged in a way that belies its chaotic nature. But the war ...