On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
'Illuminations'
By ARTHUR RIMBAUD; translated by JOHN ASHBERY
Reviewed by LYDIA DAVIS
John Ashbery brings a long and deep familiarity with French life, language and culture to this translation of Arthur Rimbaud's poetry.
Also in the Book Review
'A Moment in the Sun'
By JOHN SAYLES
Reviewed by TOM LeCLAIR
John Sayles's novelistic reimagining of America at the turn of the last century nods to both Harriet Beecher Stowe and Thomas Pynchon.
Books About Jane Austen
By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ and RACHEL M. BROWNSTEIN
Reviewed by MIRANDA SEYMOUR
A memoir of how Jane Austen's novels transformed one reader's life, and a study of why we still read the "Lady novelist."
'A Most Dangerous Book'
By CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS
Reviewed by CULLEN MURPHY
How a long-lost Latin manuscript became a Nazi talisman.
'Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir'
By EMMA FORREST
Reviewed by EMILY GOULD
A young writer overcomes her self-destructive behavior with the help of a gifted therapist.
'In the Garden of Beasts'
By ERIK LARSON
Reviewed by DOROTHY GALLAGHER
How an American ambassador to the Third Reich, and his daughter, gradually realized what a mess they were in.
'Maine'
By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN
Reviewed by LILY KING
In J. Courtney Sullivan's novel, three generations of a family's women take guilt, secrets and old wounds on a beach retreat.
'The Filter Bubble'
By ELI PARISER
Reviewed by EVGENY MOROZOV
A progressive political activist asks whether the personalization of search-engine results is a blessing or a curse.
'Berlin 1961'
By FREDERICK KEMPE
Reviewed by JACOB HEILBRUNN
An account of the construction of the Berlin Wall asks whether J.F.K. should be blamed for losing the city.
'My American Unhappiness'
By DEAN BAKOPOULOS
Reviewed by J. ROBERT LENNON
In this novel, a 33-year-old bureaucrat with his own problems sets out to reveal a nation of fake smiles.
Books About Women in the Workplace
By LYNN PERIL and ANNE KREAMER
Reviewed by EMILY BAZELON
Two books offer workplace history and advice, with particular regard to the matter of gender.
'Out of the Vinyl Deeps'
By ELLEN WILLIS
Reviewed by EVELYN McDONNELL
Now out of the vault, the collected work of a New Yorker critic who bore eloquent witness to the heyday of rock.
'The Rights of the People'
By DAVID K. SHIPLER
Reviewed by JONATHAN MAHLER
David K. Shipler laments the state of the Constitution in the aftermath of 9/11.
YOUNG ADULT
'Anya's Ghost'
By VERA BROSGOL
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
A graphic novel about a teenage girl and her friend Emily, a 100-something-year-old ghost who died 90 years earlier.
More Summer Reading
Visuals
By STEVEN HELLER
A roundup of new art and design books, about screen printing, graffiti lettering, signage in South African townships and pavement chalk artists.
'The Influencing Machine'
By BROOKE GLADSTONE
Reviewed by DAN KOIS
A media manifesto from N.P.R.'s Brooke Gladstone, delivered in comics form.
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Inside the List
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
David Eagleman, who hits the hardcover nonfiction list this week with "Incognito," is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun.
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Book Review Podcast
Featuring Dorothy Gallagher on Erik Larson's new best-seller, "In the Garden of Beasts"; and Emily Gould on Emma Forrest's memoir, "Your Voice in My Head."
Books News & Features
A Heckuva Book Pitch. That's Putting It Mildly.
By JULIE BOSMAN
A mock children's book with an obscenity in the title has become a hit for a small Brooklyn publisher, which now has to gear up for what it hopes will be big sales.
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