Sam Tanenhaus was named editor of The New York Times Book Review in March 2004.
He was a contributing editor for Vanity Fair from 1999 until 2004, where he wrote feature articles on politics and culture.
He has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, National Review, The New Criterion, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Fortune, The American Scholar, Partisan Review, Commentary, Correspondence, and Slate.
Tanenhaus is also the author of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.