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| Bestsellers |
Russian label Irfe rises from its ashes in Paris (AP)
Tue, 01 Jul 2008
AP - The history of Russian fashion label Irfe reads like a rollicking bestseller, but for designer Olga Sorokina, it's a fairytale come true.
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| BESTSELLERS
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
A list of national bestsellers compiled by Publishers Weekly
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| Biographies |
"Willie Nelson," by Joe Nick Patoski
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
illie Nelson's first name really is Willie. Not William. Just Willie. That's about the simplest fact about this complex American musical icon, which means it's a herculean task to put the singer/songwriter into context. Noted Texas author Joe Nick Patoski tries in his new biography, and though he secures. interviews with Nelson and family...
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| Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/30/2008
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
This week on the Web: death and what you can do about it, death and what a war zone reporter does about it, more speculative history from China enthusiast Gavin Menzies, an author's memoir of the tour supporting her last memoir, scientists examine the human-centric importance of all Earth's critters., and a classic of American photography...
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| Pen Pals
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
In her new book, White Heat (Reviews, June 23), literary critic Brenda Wineapple looks closely at the 25-year epistolary friendship between the reclusive Emily Dickinson and activist and man of letters Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to whom she sent many of her most famous poems. Higginson was criticized. for his part in the heavily edited...
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| Arthur Herman's "Ghandi & Churchill"
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Arthur Herman's dual biography restores the human sides to Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill E very time the history of the 20th Century has been written, the places of Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi are secure. Each is remembered as a man of great courage, and rightfully so: They were. giants who resisted tyranny with...
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| Memoirs
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Harry Bernstein's first critical success came with his memoir The Invisible Wall , published two years ago when he was 96. It described his upbringing in an impoverished Lancashire town, where the Jews lived on one side of the street and the Christians on the other. Though he'd been a writer all his.
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| Letters
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Michael Dirda's review of Renee Winegarten's Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant is a gem (Book World, June 8). Both Winegarten and Dirda rightly emphasize that Constant was an important liberal thinker. Constant's liberalism, however, was of the classic variety. Like today's "liberals," he.
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| The PW Morning Report, July 3, 2008
Thu, 03 Jul 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Britney’s Mom’s Memoir; Wine-ing at the UC Press; Whoring with Kiss; Wales Book Prize; Dolly’s New U.K. Digs; Simone Ortega Dead at 89; and J.K. Rowling Against Children’s Labeling
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| Swingers
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
Carl Hiaasen’s memoir of returning to golf after 32 years; Leigh Montville’s biography of a thief turned celebrity golfer; and Dan Jenkins’s novel about a sportswriter covering the L.P.G.A.
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| F. Kafka, Everyman
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
By Zadie Smith The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay by Louis Begley How to describe Kafka, the man? Like this, perhaps:
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| Free Press Preempts ex-Gawker Editor’s Memoir
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
The Free Press has preempted North American rights to former Gawker editor Emily Gould’s And the Heart Says…"Whatever.”
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| Letters: H2Uh-Oh
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
To the Editor:.
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| Children's |
Children's Book Reviews
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Picture Books Fanny Holly Hobbie . Little, Brown , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-16687-1 Poor Fanny—she has one of those mothers who will never let her daughter have a Connie doll. Her best friends have them, but “They're just too. much,” says Mom, who, in fine children's book tradition, is seen. only from the neck down...
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| Fall 2008 Hardcovers (Part 2)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Child Care&Parenting CROWN The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do (Sept., $24.95) by Peg Tyre points to a decline in the education of American boys and suggests ways of dealing with the problem. 75,000 first printing.
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| Surveying Sex, A To Z, In 'Dirty Words'
Thu, 03 Jul 2008
Like most things that happen in the bedroom, the collection of essays found in Dirty Words is fun, naughty and totally inappropriate for the eyes of children.
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| Channeling the Voices of Africa’s Lost Children
Thu, 03 Jul 2008
The Rev. Uwem Akpan is a Nigerian and a Jesuit priest who has just published a debut collection of stories about the dark side of human experience.
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| Pick of the paperbacks
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Consequences; What is the What; Men in Space; Vishnu's Crowded Temple; You'll Win Nothing with Kids; The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'; The Mistress's Daughter.
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| Violent Love
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Darin Strauss’s third novel is about suspicion, prejudice and child abuse on Long Island.
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| Rowling blow to age guidance
Thu, 03 Jul 08
Publishers’ plans to make children’s books.
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| Comics |
NPR.org Expands Book Coverage
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
National Public Radio has expanded the book coverage on its website, adding weekly book reviews and has hired 6 new book reviewers—including a graphic novel reviewer—adding more features to a lineup of author podcasts, critics lists and other book-focused content.
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| Secret Acres: Not So Secret Any More
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
One of the most impressive debuts at this year's MoCCA Festival was Secret Acres, a new comics imprint launched by Barry Matthews and Leon Avelino. Their first two books and Samuel C. Gaskin's Fatal Faux-Pas and Eamon Espey's Wormdye.
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| Dabel Bros, Del Rey Turn ‘Wheel of Time’ into Comics
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
Dabel Brothers Publishing announced plans to team up with Del Rey Books to create a comics version of acclaimed fantasy novelist Robert Jordan’s bestselling 11-volume Wheel of Time series.
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| Dabel Bros, Del Rey Turn ‘Wheel of Time’ into Comics
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
Dabel Brothers Publishing announced plans to team up with Del Rey Books to create a comics version of acclaimed fantasy novelist Robert Jordan’s bestselling 11-volume Wheel of Time series.
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| Crime and Comic Books: Gary Phillips’s High Roller
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Boom! Studios is publishing High Rollers, a new four-issue comics mini-series written by crime and mystery novelist Gary Phillips, detailing the rise of a Los Angeles gangster.
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| Crime and Comic Books: Gary Phillips’s High Roller
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Boom! Studios is publishing High Rollers, a new four-issue comics mini-series written by crime and mystery novelist Gary Phillips, detailing the rise of a Los Angeles gangster.
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| Not Your Daddy's Seinen; Violent Gantz Comes to the U.S.
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
This month, Dark Horse will publish Gantz, a violent, sexually explicit and surreal series that many American manga fans thought would never be licensed for the U.S. market.
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| Brian K. Vaughan In A New York State of Mind
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
This month DC Comics Wildstorm imprint is releasing a deluxe hardcover edition of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris's superhero series Ex Machina.
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| Current Events |
Embedded in Iraq
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
By Michael Massing '0900: Link up with 2-4 IN patrol at Cross Sabers in IZ,' read the message from the press center of the Multi-National Force-Iraq. That meant that at nine the next morning I should show up at the crossed-sabers monument-- the giant pair of arched swords erected by Saddam Hussein on. his military parade ground--in the...
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| Iran: The Threat
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
By Thomas Powers At a moment of serious challenge, battered by two wars, ballooning debt, and a faltering economy, the United States appears to have lost its capacity to think clearly. Consider what passes for national discussion on the matter of Iran. The open question is whether the United States. should or will attack Iran if it...
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| Talking with Nam Le, author of "The Boat"
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Nam Le's critically lauded first book, "The Boat" (Knopf, $22.95) is a story collection in name only - no overarching theme, location or character ties it together. The stories take up youth, atrocity, friendships, family. They take place in Iowa and Iran and Colombia. They feature as protagonists a. New York painter, a teenage assassin...
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| "The Strong Man," by James Rosen
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Fox News reporter James Rosen finds the Watergate figure more sinned against than sinner I t was love, twice over, that undid John Mitchell. He adored his mad, dipsomaniacal wife, Martha. Her raving late-night phone calls to reporters helped make her just about the most famous woman in America during. the first Nixon administration...
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| War Theater of the Absurd
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
The Forever War Dexter Filkins . Knopf , $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-26639-2 Filkins, a New York Times prize–winning reporter, is widely regarded as among the finest war correspondents of this generation. His richly textured book is based on his work in Afghanistan and Iraq since 1998. It begins. with a Taliban-staged execution in...
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| Alan Furst and "The Spies of Warsaw"
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Research and realism make Alan Furst's sophisticated stories of espionage stand out D uring the war years in the Balkans, on those chilly nights when you counted your blessings if you had a portable generator that provided enough light to read by, Alan Furst's spy novels offered pleasant diversion. for many a foreign correspondent...
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| Tale of botched terror war marred by errors (AP)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
AP - "Hunting Bin Laden" (Skyhorse Publishing. 229 pages. $24.95), by Rob Schultheis: Veteran war correspondent Rob Schultheis draws a line in the sand early in his new book, "Hunting Bin Laden."
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| Hitler's Coming; Time For Cocktails And Gossip
Tue, 01 Jul 2008
Jonathan Raban remembers his first encounter with the aging, aimless socialites of Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags, a novel of cocktails, clandestine affairs and the looming threat of World War II.
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| Huffington’s Post
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
Arianna Huffington blames the Democratic Party and the press for the Republican ascendancy.
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| Fiction |
From 'Wolf Hall'
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
By Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell was born in Putney, outside London, around 1485. Little is known of his family, but his father, a brewer and blacksmith, had court convictions for drunkenness and assault. Wolf Hall, my new novel from which this excerpt is taken, imagines for Cromwell a hungry, anxious., and desolate childhood. Aged seven...
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| Blood Relations
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
By Claire Messud The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Only in the years following my French Catholic grandmother's death was it revealed to me that there is no such thing as 'magical realism.' There are, instead, culturally specific experiences of the real which, when rendered in fiction, produce. different results. Raised in an...
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| Fiction Reviews
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
The World According to Bertie: A 44 Scotland Street Novel Alexander McCall Smith . Anchor , $13.95 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-38706-6 Smith delivers yet another delightful installment to his Scotland Street series. This time out, he focuses mostly on the irrepressible Bertie Pollock, a precocious six.-year-old whose mummy, Irene, forces...
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| Fall 2008 Hardcovers (Part 3)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Fiction/Science Fiction & Fantasy ACE Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (Oct., $24.95) by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner collects urban noir stories. Princeps' Fury: Book Five of the Codex Alera (Dec., $24.95) by Jim Butcher offers more challenges for Calderon legion captain Tavi. Bone Crossed: A Mercy. Thompson Novel (Feb...
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| Mongolian Noir
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Michael Walters's first novel, The Shadow Walker (Reviews, June 16), is a mystery set in modern Mongolia, to which the British author has traveled as a management consultant. When did you first visit Mongolia? In the early 1990s, when the country was going through dramatic change following the collapse. of the U.
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| Ethan Canin's "America, America"
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Ethan Canin's novel of family, love, presidential politics and scandal in 1970s America I t seems but a minor stretch—if that—to speculate that the seemingly redundant title of Ethan Canin's new novel, "America America," is to suggest that there are indeed second acts in American life.
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| Fall 2008 Trade Paperbacks (Part 2)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Fiction/General & Short Stories ABACUS UK (dist. by trafalgar Square/IPG) The Vault (Oct., $15.95) by Roslund Hellström. Two overlapping stories lead to bullet-ridden bodies and a room full of hostages. ALMA BOOKS (dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG) Spinners: A Novel (Oct., $15.95) by Anthony McCarten.
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, the authors of “Grand New Party”; Alessandra Stanley on Alan Furst’s latest spy thriller; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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| Intersecting Lives In 'The Garden Of Last Days'
Tue, 01 Jul 2008
In his new novel, The Garden of Last Days , Andre Dubus III imagines the stripper who danced for the terrorists before Sept. 11. The author is best known for House of Sand and Fog , a National Book Award finalist in 1999.
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| 'Netherland' Flirts With Greatness Of 'Gatsby'
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
With plenty of nods to The Great Gatsby Joseph O'Neill's Netherland explores dreams and ambition in post-Sept. 11 New York City. Maureen Corrigan calls the novel "marvelous."
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| "The Foreigner," by Francie Lin
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
A thriller that spans continents and defies convention T he fraught but inextricable bonds of family are explored in Francie Lin's first novel, "The Foreigner."
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| No need to add water or sand to enjoy these summer reads
Thu, 03 Jul 2008
It's the summer of the SPF-rated novel.Publishers are turning up the heat with books that put us in the mood for sun and fun .
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| To breed or not to breed
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
With its taproot in "Hamlet," this novel spins an engrossing tale of power struggles within a family of Wisconsin dog breeders.
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| Strauss sets things right
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
For his first contemporary novel, "More Than It Hurts You," Glen Head native Darin Strauss chose Long Island as a setting.
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| Intrigue of Nations
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
In Alan Furst’s latest spy thriller, a French diplomat keeps a nervous eye on Hitler’s troops.
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| Essay: Cultural Crossoads of the Levant
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
An Israeli publisher reprints a controversial novel about the evacuation of a Palestinian village in 1948.
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| The Spy Who Wouldn’t Love Me
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
In the latest Bond novel: Villains? Check. Graphic violence? Check. Libido on overdrive? Um . . .
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| Nick Harkaway: Le Carré with ninjas
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Nick Harkaway describes the challenges of writing a novel in the shadow of a famous father
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| Cubicle Rats
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
In his first novel, Ed Park ponders the anxious culture of the modern workplace.
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| Radioactive Grass
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
A novel about growing up in totalitarian Romania.
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| Non-Fiction |
Nonfiction Reviews
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World Jed Perl . Knopf , $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-26662-0 The 18th-century rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau is art critic Perl's favorite painter, one who transforms “powerful feelings—of love, friendship, lust, avidity, curiosity—into delectable artistic. play” and “poetic pattern...
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| Eldredge Leaving Thomas Nelson; Signs Two-Book Deal with Doubleday Religion
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Bestselling Christian author John Eldredge is leaving his longtime publisher, Thomas Nelson, and has inked a two-book deal for a pair of currently untitled nonfiction works with Doubleday Religious Publishing.
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| TBR: Inside the List
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
Forty-five years ago this week, the book at No. 3 on the nonfiction list — James Baldwin’s “Fire Next Time” — offered a glimpse of where the 1960s were heading.
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| New in paperback
Thu, 03 Jul 2008
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown. USA TODAY's Deirdre Donahue called this non-fiction portrait of Princess Diana "positively .
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| The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize 2008
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
As the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction approaches its 10th anniversary, the first winner, Antony Beevor, explains its value
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| Obituaries |
"Dinner With Mugabe," by Heidi Holland
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Heidi Holland looks at how Robert Mugabe, once a bookish boy, dragged Zimbabwe to the abyss Robert Mugabe began life as a shy, bookish boy whose deeply Catholic mother said he was bound for greatness after his two older brothers died and his father, a carpenter, abandoned the family.
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| Top-selling Spanish cookbook author Simone Ortega dead at 89 (AFP)
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
AFP - Top-selling Spanish cookbook author and chef Simone Ortega, who won top culinary awards in both France and Spain, has died, her publisher said Wednesday. She was 89.
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| Poetry |
Fall 2008 Trade Paperbacks (Part 4)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Poetry COFFEE HOUSE PRESS (dist. by Consortium) Jealous Witness (Sept., $19.95) by Andrei Codrescu pays homage to the dispossessed of New Orleans; includes CD by the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars. COPPER CANYON PRESS (dist. by Consortium) Reality Check (Sept., $15) by Dennis O'Driscoll portrays the tragedies. and comedies of a globalized...
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| Poet's Choice
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Late Czech poet and immunologist Miroslav Holub mined greater treasure from the sciences than any other poet I know. In "The Sorcerer's Lament," he speaks as someone who thrives in duality (i.e., the art/science dichotomy): "[My] great magic is that I'm/still here. With a medium-sized/halo around.
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| Up Front
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
“I’ll confess that there are moments, when writing criticism, when I’d rather be writing poetry,” says William Logan. “I can’t say I’ve ever found it the other way around.”
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| Reviews |
"Spiral Jetta," by Erin Hogan
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Erin Hogan details her travels in search of the big art of the American West I never thought fate played into book reviews. But something had a hand in sending me Erin Hogan's "Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West" the same week my daughter announced that she planned. to head to Marfa, Texas, to seek her...
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| TELL US WHAT YOU THINK
Tue, 1 Jul 2008
Change is afoot here at the Tribune, and now, more than ever, we want to know what you think. So, tell us: What do you love about the Books section? What's missing? Do you want to see fewer author profiles and more reviews? Fewer reviews and more essays? What about the crossword puzzle? The best-seller. lists? Or maybe you want something...
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| Tribune Co. Redesign Could Kill More Book Coverage
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
The tough times in the newspaper could spell more trouble for print book review sections as rumors float that book review pages may get cut in an impending redesign at various Tribune-owned newspapers.
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| Review: 'Franklin & Lucy' by Joseph E. Persico
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
FRANKLIN & LUCY: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life, by Joseph E. Persico. Random House, 443 pp., $28.
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| Robert Mugabe, lonely monster
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Graham Boynton reviews Dinner with Mugabe by Heidi Holland and Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its Independence by Ian Smith
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| Book Review: Mapping the Myriad Tastes of the ‘Other China’
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
“Beyond the Great Wall” opens up vast worlds of other Chinas scarcely known to cooks and food lovers in the United States.
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| Where Charles Darwin really discovered evolution
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Clive Aslet reviews Darwin's Garden: Down House and The Origin of Species by Michael Boulter
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| The Romanovs in the round
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Toby Faber reviews The Romanovs by Lindsey Hughes and Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
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| Reviews: 'Tupelo Rides the Rails,' 'Good Night, Leo'
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
TUPELO RIDES THE RAILS, by Melissa Sweet. Houghton Mifflin, $17. Ages 6-10.
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| The Black Death was unthinkable
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Jeremy Black reviews The Black Death: an Intimate History by John Hatcher
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| A special pigeon
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Laura Thompson reviews The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
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| Review: 'More Than It Hurts You' by Darin Strauss
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU, by Darin Strauss. Dutton, 401 pp., $24.95.
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| Review: 'The End of Food' by Paul Roberts
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
THE END OF FOOD, by Paul Roberts. Houghton Mifflin, 416 pp., $26.
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| The second voyage of Christopher Columbus
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Malcolm Gaskill reviews A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
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| Murder amongst the Mosleyites
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Jake Kerridge reviews Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor
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| Whale music in a sea of sound
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Philip Hoare reviews Thousand Mile Song by David Rothenberg
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| A shaggy dog's dinner
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Peter Robins reviews A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
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| Urban squalor in Victorian London
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Gillian Tindall reviews The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise
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| Horrors of Victorian Shoreditch
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Sinclair McKay reviews The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise
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| How the Comanche won the west
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Raymond Seitz reviews Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen
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| Spirituality |
Obama & the Black Church
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
By Darryl Pinckney My parents, old NAACP activists, live in front of CNN, and back in April I happened to be with them in Indianapolis the week before the Indiana primary, when the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy returned to embarrass Senator Barack Obama's campaign. To my mother, passionately. pro-Obama, nothing justified what she...
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| Fall 2008 Trade Paperbacks (Part 3)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Humor ABRAMS IMAGE Make the Bible Work for You (Sept., $12.95) by Dave Johnston (aka Reverend Hellenback) cites biblical quotations that justify a hellish array of bad behavior. ANDREWS MCMEEL Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe (Sept., $12.99) by Lisa Alcalay Klug delivers the. kosher response to The Preppy...
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| General |
Isn't It Funny?
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
By Mary Beard Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes by Jim Holt Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 BC–AD 250 by John R. Clarke Just over halfway up the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome is a memorable, and unsettling, scene. Although practically invisible...
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| In the Night Kitchen
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
By Stephen Greenblatt Macbeth a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Rupert Goold Macbeth an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Adrian Noble In the company of Banquo, King Duncan arrives in great good spirits at the castle of his principal thane Macbeth to whose dauntless military prowess. he owes the survival of his reign...
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| PW Talks with Paul and Anne Ehrlich: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
In Dominant Animal (out today from Island Press), ecologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, who authored the highly influential The Population Bomb forty years ago, recalibrate their vision and find that, despite some progress (heading off some of their more dire 1968 predictions), our species is still overshooting. the capacity of the planet to...
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| Jill Bolte Taylor’s Right Brain Wants to Tell Us Something
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
"I had a rare congenital malformation in the blood vessels of my left hemisphere and at the age of 37 the malformation (AVM) blew and resulted in a major hemorrhage in the left half of my brain. On the morning of the stroke, I could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of my life. I describe myself. as an infant in a woman’s body...
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| Pat Tillmam Book Pulled
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
The much-anticipated book by Jon Krakauer, The Hero , is being withdrawn from Doubleday's fall list at the request of the author. The book's centerpiece is Pat Tillman, whose controversial death in Afghanistan from friendly fire is still being debated. Those anticipating Jon Krakauer's meditation. on the nature of heroism, examined...
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| Firebombers Incorporated, a Book by Michael Archer: The Future of Wildland Firefighting?
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:35 EDT
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- As global warming causes mega-fires to become the norm, as firefighting budgets are slashed, firefighting aircraft are grounded due to thick smoke, and firefighters are overwhelmed by the sheer number and size of wildfires, people are asking: Can technology be harnessed to produce. a firefighting force capable of...
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| Fall 2008 Hardcovers (Part 4)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Photography ABRAMS Vanity Fair: The Portraits (Sept., $65) by Graydon Carter and David Friend culls 300 portraits that have appeared in the magazine over the past 95 years. 150,000 first printing. ALBATROSS (dist. by W.W. Norton) A New England Autumn (Sept., $39.95) by Ferenc Máté depicts a journey. through the back roads and hidden...
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| Fall 2008 Hardcovers (Part 1)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Oona Short, Skip Skwarek, Julie Stevenson and Michelle Wildgen. Maybe it’s fall signaling the end of another year, or the prospect of yet another difficult. year—politically, economically...
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| Fall 2008 Trade Paperbacks (Part 1)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Art & Architecture ACTAR D Total Housing (Nov., $52) byAlbert Ferre suveys the most compelling international contemporary housing projects. ALLWORTH PRESS Managing Design Strategies: Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives (Oct., $24.95), edited by Thomas Lockwood, studies the relationship of. design to brands, customers and...
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| AOT #116: David Sedaris Podcasts When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
David Sedaris is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Public Radio International’s This American Life, and is the bestselling author of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Barrel Fever. Sedaris reads from and discusses his new book When You Are Engulfed. in Flames. Culminating...
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| Paul Beatty's "Slumberland"
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
I first heard of Paul Beatty in the 1990s, when Europe was awash in young black rebels trying to forge a new identity against the backdrop of insidious racism. We wanted to be black and proud, as the song went, but we wanted none of the nationalist narrative of the generation that came before us. What., then, were we to do...
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| McClellan campaigns for himself in promoting book (AP)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
AP - On his book promotion stopover here, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan was squired around by a "literary escort," a pleasant woman named Naomi who drives visiting authors to their speaking engagements in a blue convertible. There were no motorcades, no street closures., no Secret Service...
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| Imag(in)ing America
Tue, 01 Jul 2008
The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and moral equivalent of the first U.S. moon landing; and as a European I am stuck down here on earth watching the Yankee space ship make its landing way up there,” Valli wrote.
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| The Twisted Journey Of 'Napoleon's Privates'
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
How did Napoleon's penis end up in New Jersey? Tony Perrottet, the author of the new book, Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped , outlines the route the emperor's organ took from the island of St. Helena in 1821 to a briefcase under the bed of a New Jersey urologist.
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| Rise and fall and rise of China to great power (AP)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008
AP - "Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present" (Ecco. 763 pages. $34.95), by Jonathan Fenby: In 1776, the 13 American colonies began their two-century march to making the United States the world's only remaining superpower.
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| Rival Actors Sparked Fatal 'Shakespeare Riots'
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
Shakespeare's works inspire strong emotions both on stage and off. Author Nigel Cliff talks about his book The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in 19th-Century America , which tells the story of an argument between two actors that led to a deadly riot.
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| A Hedge Fund Manager's Crusade To Expose Losses
Tue, 01 Jul 2008
Six years ago, hedge fund manager David Einhorn launched a battle to expose accounting problems at Allied Capital, a financial company. In a new book, he says the experience revealed how the media and financial regulators can sometimes fail investors.
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| 1960: A Pivotal Year For The Olympics
Tue, 01 Jul 2008
The 1960 Rome Olympics were the first commercially televised games, saw the first doping scandal and the first commercial endorsement. David Maraniss, author of "Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World," calls the year pivotal for the games.
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| Olsson’s Faces Squeeze
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
After closing its 15-year-old Penn Quarter store in Washington, D.C., on Friday to make room for a Wagamama noodle shop, Olsson’s Books & Records, which is headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., is continuing to be squeezed publishers.
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| Have Ribbons Lost Meaning?
Tue, 01 Jul 2008
Want to raise awareness about AIDS? Wear a red ribbon. Poverty? Pin on a gold ribbon. With seemingly endless causes and colors, has the ribbon lost its meaning? A new book looks at the conscious and unconscious meaning of ribbon-wearing.
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