The stunted title of David Gilbert's second novel, "& Sons" (Random House), does a lot of useful work.
Around him, he collected a team of "the best and the brightest", as the title of David Halberstam's famous book (of 1973) ran.
May 1 2014 May 25 201414 The title of David Rudkin's intriguing piece, directed by Jack McNamara, is not idle wordplay.
"Infinite Jest" is also the title of David Foster Wallace's much-loved novel that perceives American society as self-obsessed, pleasure-obsessed and entertainment-obsessed, but Ms. McPhee said there was no direct connection.
If Syria and Lebanonn, again) explodes, the whole peace settlement of 1920 (A Peace to End All Peace, in the title of David Fromkin's famous book) is reopened, which might include the matter of Israel.
The possibility of clandestine assassination is hinted by the title of David Leavitt's short biography, "The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer" (Norton/Atlas; $22.95), borrowed from the Hitchcock thriller.
The title of David Finkel's recent book about the struggles of soldiers returned from Iraq, "Thank You for Your Service," captures all the bad faith of a civilian population that views itself as undeserving, and the equivocal position of celebrated warriors who don't much feel like saying, "You're welcome".
"The Bridge," the title of David Remnick's incisive new book on Barack Obama, refers to the bridge in Selma, Ala., where civil rights demonstrators were violently attacked by state troopers on March 7 , 1965 in a bloody clash that would galvanize the nation and help lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
The dialogue that Jacobi published in 1787 carried the full title of David Hume on Faith, or Idealism and Realism, A Dialogue.
