By DWIGHT GARNER on Mar 09, 2010 11:16PM

Books of The Times: In ?Still Life,? Melissa Milgrom Dissects Taxidermy

Melissa Milgrom?s oddball first book is a pinballing tour through the poorly understood world of taxidermy.

By FLORENCE FABRICANT on Mar 09, 2010 10:12PM

Food Stuff: A New Anthology of Gastronomica Magazine

?The Gastronomica Reader? is an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine.

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI on Mar 09, 2010 12:54AM

Books of The Times: Lives Scarred by War in ?The Surrendered,? by Chang-rae Lee

With ?The Surrendered,? Chang-rae Lee has written the most ambitious and compelling novel of his already impressive career.

By MOTOKO RICH on Mar 09, 2010 02:34PM

Pellegrino Book Is Pulled and Publishers Ponder Procedures

Charles Pellegrino, who wrote ?The Last Train From Hiroshima,? admits being duped by a source, but says other sources that his publisher has questioned definitely exist. Digital media raises the question of what part the traditional book publisher will play in the future.

By KATIE ZEZIMA on Mar 09, 2010 07:48AM

Letters Capture American Grief After the Kennedy Assassination

A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

By JANET MASLIN on Mar 08, 2010 01:48AM

Books of The Times: ?Burning Bright? by Ron Rash: Shadowy Stories of Appalachia

The skill with which Ron Rash?s tales are constructed is apparent in this new book of stories.

By ALAN SCHWARZ on Mar 08, 2010 10:23AM

SABR Ends Controversy, Gives Credit to Historian?s Wife

The Society for American Baseball Research changed course and recognized Dorothy Jane Mills as a co-author with Dr. Harold Seymour of a trilogy of the game?s history.

Mar 10, 2010 02:05PM

"Wall Street" sequel delayed by five months (Reuters)

Reuters - Fox is bumping Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel to the fall.

Mar 10, 2010 01:36PM

Review: Pattinson still brooding in `Remember Me' (AP)

AP - In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause."

Mar 10, 2010 01:00PM

'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Calif. at 38 (AP)

AP - Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38.

Mar 10, 2010 11:53AM

Ralph Fiennes filming "Coriolanus" in Serbia (Reuters)

Reuters - After two years struggling to win funding amid the global financial crisis, actor Ralph Fiennes said on Wednesday he would start filming his directorial debut of a Shakespeare tragedy next week in Serbia.

Mar 10, 2010 06:09AM

Animal activists target Calif. sushi restaurant (AP)

AP - Federal agents are investigating a high-end Santa Monica, Calif., sushi restaurant, following a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove."

Mar 10, 2010 05:04AM

Review: `Green Zone' is a failure of intelligence (AP)

AP - All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.

Mar 10, 2010 04:49AM

Robert De Niro set to play Vince Lombardi in movie (AP)

AP - Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie.

Mar 10, 2010 01:36PM

Review: Pattinson still brooding in `Remember Me' (AP)

AP - In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause."

Mar 10, 2010 09:43AM

Review: `Final Fantasy XIII' falls flat (AP)

AP - During the 1990s, the Square brand was synonymous with the role-playing video game. A generation of gamers got hooked on the challenging quests, quirky characters and sweeping story lines of Square RPGs like "Chrono Trigger," "The Secret of Mana" and, of course, the "Final Fantasy" series.

Mar 10, 2010 08:41AM

Author reveals the unwritten rules of baseball (AP)

AP - "The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime" (Pantheon Books, 304 pages, $25), by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca: Major League Baseball is a complex, intricate game with a thick rule book that covers everything from balks and bunts to force plays and foul tips.

Mar 10, 2010 05:04AM

Review: `Green Zone' is a failure of intelligence (AP)

AP - All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.

Mar 10, 2010 04:48AM

Phantom sequel a "shadow of the original" (Reuters)

Reuters - Comparisons with the original were inevitable when Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to write a sequel to his record-breaking musical "Phantom of the Opera."

Mar 09, 2010 06:36PM

"Who Is Clark Rockefeller?" a rip-off (Reuters)

Reuters - Con men. Those charming devils who smile as they plunge the knife in your back, then make you want to thank them for the privilege. Hollywood, and let's face it, audiences, love 'em.

Mar 09, 2010 06:20PM

"Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" a cold-case chiller (Reuters)

Reuters - Revolving around an investigative reporter and his unlikely crime-solving partner, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson's posthumous Millennium trilogy of novels were not so much best-sellers as international publishing phenomena.