What happened on November 25, 2007
BOOKS
Chasing the shadows By Edward Champion, Edward Champion is a Brooklyn writer and host of the literary blog Return of the Reluctant at www.edrants.com.
Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds
Roadside attractions By Richard Eder, Richard Eder, a former Times book critic, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987.
Narrative troublemaker By Ben Ehrenreich, Ben Ehrenreich is the author of the novel "The Suitors."
Puppet master By Leslie S. Klinger, Leslie S. Klinger is the editor of "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories," "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels" and the forthcoming "The New Annotated Dracula."
Wired for romance By Seth Lloyd, Seth Lloyd, a professor of quantum-mechanical engineering at MIT, is the author of "Programming the Universe."
Bit parts By Susan Salter Reynolds, Susan Salter Reynolds is a Times staff writer.
A wild and crazy guise? By Erika Schickel, Erika Schickel is the author of "You're Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom."
The art of liberation By Donna Seaman, Donna Seaman is an editor for Booklist and host of the radio program "Open Books" in Chicago (www.open booksradio.org). Her author interviews are collected in "Writers on the Air."
Ordinary madness By David L. Ulin, David L. Ulin is books editor of The Times.
OPINION
Trying to change a bias By Gustavo Arellano, Gustavo Arellano is a contributing editor to Opinion, the author of the book "¡Ask a Mexican!" and a staff writer for the OC Weekly.
We aren't all in the same boat By Erin Aubry Kaplan, Erin Aubry Kaplan is a contributing editor to The Times' opinion pages.
Give me a break By Charles Fleming, Charles Fleming is an adjunct professor of journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is coauthor of the recently published nonfiction book "My Lobotomy."
The blame game By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His new book is "The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics," published by Middle Passage Press.
Unheralded military successes By Robert D. Kaplan, Robert D. Kaplan, a national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and a visiting professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, is the author of "Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground."
Homicides don't add up to a race war By Jill Leovy, Jill Leovy writes the Homicide Report, a Times blog that tracks homicides in Los Angeles County.
Funny stuffing By Joel Pett, Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.
It's more about class and less about color By Gregory Rodriguez, Gregory Rodriguez, a columnist for the opinion pages, is director of the California Fellows Program at the New America Foundation and the author of the recently published "Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America."
McCain's homework By Matt Welch, Matt Welch, a former assistant editorial page editor at The Times, is an editor at Reason magazine and author of "McCain: The Myth of a Maverick."