The New York Times has posted a preview of the Book Review's lead review from this week: Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter on Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.'s George Plimpton oral biography, George, Being George: George Plimpton’s Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals — and a Few Unappreciative Observers. (An oral ...

On the eve of George W Bush's re-election in November 2004 New Yorkers, fearful of another attack, are leaving Manhattan in droves. Trust Philip Roth's alter-ego, Nathan Zuckerman, to be heading the other way. Now in his 70s, the reclusive Zuckerman returns to the city to receive treatment for the prostate cancer which has left him embarrassingly impotent ...